Projetos Mundiais de Internet da IASD - John Beckett, Fórum Web Adventista

Editor's Notes

• #2: I am always so happy to meet with the group of people that comes together at Web Forum meetings. It’s wonderful to make new friends and catch up with people we’ve met before. It’s a privilege to hear new ideas and methods.\n\nBut most of all it’s inspiring to meet with people who are dedicated to work together to spread the good news by any means possible. People who are dedicated to mission, even at sometimes great personal cost.\n\nI love the fact that whatever our backgrounds, whether we are writers, designers, developers, evangelists, or of some other profession, we are united together in mission.\n\nI’m privileged to share a few of the projects that the General Conference is involved with through the Office of Global Software and Internet.\n
• #3: First, netAdventist. A free, easy to use, web site management platform for global church use.\n
• #4: netAdventist makes it easy for a Division or Union to offer web sites to their local churches. So far, thousands of sites around the use netAdventist. The General Conference provides the software, and the local offices provide the server and training for churches.\n
• #5: netAdventist isn’t the only web content management system. There are lots of them, with more being created every year.\nIf each of our organizations picks a favorite and runs with it....\nThat’s better than nothing but it means:\nPeople can’t learn once and be able to support more than their own site.\nTraining events are hard.\nCode written for one site doesn’t benefit others much.\nVisual styles made for one site don’t benefit others much.\nTime consuming to launch new sites.\n\nAreas that choose netAdventist, or standardize on a single CMS system for churches, benefit by being able to share knowledge and more easily have training events.\n
• #6: netAdventist has a selection of features you would expect from a Content Management System. \n\nNew features that one area creates are made available world-wide, for free.\n\n
• #7: Having tools in local languages is important. Here’s a snapshot of our translation piece of netAdventist. As you can see it’s already in quite a few languages. Some translators choose to complete only the pieces they find most useful.\n
• #8: A local church web site can create an another welcoming door to church members and the community.\n\n* Basic “information” like service times, calendars, etc.\n* non-threatening “preview” of a church for community. Curious individuals can get a preview of what to expect when they come.\n* Connection to former members. If they see something they like, why not come back?\n* Entertainment and more constant connected-nes for church members throughout the week.\n
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• #35: Next we’re going to take a brief look at Evertz Mediator. This a tool that AWR has used to automate much of their global operations. It can also be made available to Adventist Media Centers who would find it useful. It requires a bit of planning and hardware to implement. But if you find that you are constantly having to convert media and upload it many different places, this tool can help a lot.\n
• #36: Automation is the answer.\n\nAWR had a lot of repetitive manual work that it wanted to automate (i.e. Media packaging, Transcoding, Transfer to transmitter sites, Publishing to web pages). This is where Mediator came in handy.\n\nThe Mediator system shown was used by AWR for audio, but it was designed primarily with Video in mind.\n
• #37: Here’s an example of a typical workflow. Almost any audio file we throw at Mediator, it will transcode into a bunch of different formats for the right job. The files are placed in a folder where mediator can access them.\n
• #38: From there they are pulled into the mediator system. If files are named in a consistent way, it can already fill many of the meta-data fields.\n\nDepending on how the files are tagged, and how the workflow is structured. Mediator delivers the media in multiple formats to the appropriate destinations, at the right times. The people supervisors now get a panel where they can see what programs are expected but missing, what files have problems etc. \n\nFiles can be manually quality checked, or the system can do some checking as well.\n
• #39: So now the audio gets delivered easily to lots of places. This audio Flash player is pulling the feeds auto-generated by Mediator.\n
• #40: Here we see a localized template of www.awr.org with the podcast player repurposed for a specific language. Same content, just wrapped in different template.\n
• #41: Another great example of our shortwave programs being repurposed in iTunes as a result of the feeds Mediator creates.\n
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• #43: AWR targets such a wide audience of listeners in various languages that keeping the content contextualized has become a priority.\n
• #44: If we look again at the Mediator interface, we see both English and native metadata entered in each episode as a crucial part of our web frontend and position our content to be searchable in the appropriate languages.\n
• #45: Entire web template is in Spanish, content metadata is also.\n
• #46: This slide gives you an idea of what devices media-giant BBC considers to be a priority for their content. Giving users a successful experience on any device ensures media files are getting the full “mileage” out of content. Driving content delivery through a system like Mediator can make this a possibility.\n
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• #48: This is a project quite a many of us at the General Conference including Archives and Statistics and Secretariat have been thinking about for awhile.\n\nIn some parts of the world such as South America and North America, there is standard membership software already being used. In some others, there is not, but there is big an interest in getting started.\n\nBenefits include:\nBetter Statistics which can help with:\nBetter decision making\nbetter use of resources\nbetter targeted evangelism\nbetter pastoral care\n\nThe General Conference has just created an office attached to GC Secretariat which will handle making membership software available around the world. The new director for this office is Andrew Kuntaraff, who previously worked deploying SunPlus accounting software in many parts of the world.\n\nThe first job of the new director for this office is to evaluate the software already in use by the church to see whether one of those packages will meet world needs and prepare plans for making it available.\n\nThis is a huge challenge, but the benefits to the world church could be great.\n\nPlease pray for wisdom and guidance for this new project.\n
• #49: I recently learned of a project in Germany that used TV and Internet working together for Evangelism. \n
• #50: Here is an overview of how it worked. Each night started with a short piece of a movie to introduce the night’s topic. \n\nThe film clip was taken from a movie which told an ongoing story of two young people who meet accidentally in New York City but come from two different worlds – not only from Europe and the US but from an atheistic, materialistic world view and a Christian world view, at the same time. The conflicts from that encounter form a springboard for the reflections which lead from real life issues into matters of faith, meeting secular people where they are.\n
• #51: After the movie, Klaus or Matthias, the presenters shared a short sermon about the topic\n
• #52: Next there was an in-studio panel discussion about the issue presented.\n
• #53: Finally, there were group discussions in the studio and local churches where the series was being shown. During the group discussions the team answered questions that came in through the web site and twitter.\n
• #54: Here’s a look at the web site which supported the series through also working to build community around the topics. People could sign up to be able to leave comments and participate in comments.\n\nMany hearts were reached in Germany through this series. It was something younger adults could be proud to bring their work friends and neighbors to.\n\nCities and secular people can be difficult to reach so I bring what was done in Germany to you as an interesting example of how one part of our church has used the many technological tools we have to work together in sharing the good news.\n\n\n
• #55: The Sabbath School and Personal Ministries Site has lots of resources. Of course you can find the Adult quarterly there, and I’m sure many of you already have.\n\nBut today I’m going to show you some of the really great resources for kids. \n\nFirst of all, the kids quarterlies are all here as PDFs, many of them in multiple languages.\n\nYou can also download teacher editions and activity sheets to use in Sabbath School.\n\nMy favorite thing though is the Kindergarten Animation. \n\nThe kindergarten Animation is available in English, but it follows the quarterly text, so you could turn off the sound and read another language as the video plays. Sort of like an animated felt board.\n\nHere’s a sample.\n\nI teach Kindergarten Sabbath School once a month, and I love playing the video at the end, so even the kids who came late get to hear the Bible story.\n\n
• #56: I’m now excited to show you the web site for revived by his word.\n\nWhat a simple and beautiful idea idea. Starting just a few months ago, Adventists all over the world are reading the Bible, one chapter a day. We’ll read through the whole Bible together and finish at the General Conference Session in 2015.\n
• #57: I love kids, they’re always thinking of ways to combine things to make new adventures. Here’s an example of my son Carson innovating....but you have to promise not to tell him, or I might get in trouble!\n\n<play clip>\n\nHere we have an excellent example of an innovation / followed by an evaluation process.\n\n
• #58: What are some tools / methods / combinations of efforts that haven’t been tried yet? \n\n