MinistryNet: Antalya 2009 October 18-22

We asked, you answered! Here are the responses you gave in the Knowledge Cafe to the question How can we encourage innovation in my area or context?

1. Broaden / create learning environment that include others. Where best practices are shared, innovation is encouraged, setting aside funds to implement ideas.
2. Be intentional about it. Low threshold of trying out ideas and equally low threshold of cutting ideas that do not work. Becomes easier to suggest and try out ideas. Develops a culture of innovation. Helping people to be willing to implement new ideas.
3. Ask student leaders and students to come up with ideas.
4. Get a group of students to come up with an idea each to reach the campus and the one used wins a prize.
5. Offer an incentive (financial, prize), a dollar for every student exposed to the gospel. Motivating students. Posters to ask for people’s input.
6. Use the tools yourself that you want students to use to reach other students (e.g. facebook)
7. Positive attitudes to any idea. Embrace ideas. Being enthusiastic about possibilities.
8. Creating a need in students lives for innovation in sharing the gospel. Vision to reach more than they can physically reach, that then drives innovation to reach larger numbers of people.
9. Do local knowledge caf with students / volunteers (Draft ideas and raise vision)
10. Not being afraid to try something new. Not to get complacent. To have an open mindset to new ideas.
11. Giving people freedom to fail.
12. Modelling creative methods as an example to others.
13. Leader often seen as expert. Giving students genuine responsibility and ownership.
14. Target audience that we’re trying to reach are the ones who will come up with innovation.
15. Be clear on what the need is in society, have a clear picture of where society is at and work from that. Share this vision with team-mates.
16. Contact STINTers, previous staff and ask what are the things they would change, the ideas they would implement.
17. Visit other countries ministries nearby and see how they do ministry. Send students on STINT to another place to learn, see other ideas and come back.
18. Share results of previous projects, the methods we’ve used and how they went to inform future projects.
19. Asking people from different areas of the ministry (not internet or student people) for their input.
20. Put into language that non-internet minded people can understand. Communicate effectively to support team, staff, students.
21. Encourage discussion at small group level
22. Small trip that gets a group of people together (internet minded and non internet minded).
23. Pioneer and be a model to others, articles, videos.
24. Call people to the problem solving process, if they see the future they can become part of creating new ideas.
25. Intentionally recruit more volunteers into the area of technology, web design, innovation etc to build our skill base. People with a heart for what we can do
26. Reach students with technological gifts.
27. Allowing specific timeto think / draft new ideas.
28. Asking major donors to put together a fund of money, put together a team of students and best idea gets used.
29. Involve the right people in the decision making process. A healthy balance between ideas people and practical people who can make things happen.
30. Creating local wiki drafting lots of ideas and activities but then also clear points where decisions are made and implemented.
31. Periodic meeting to have brainstorming then have time to filter it. And develop the good ones.
32. Encourage people to have ideas from what is going in the community.
33. Bring to our staff what is going well in some other areas to
    
34. Plan a little MinistryNet conference in our own region, with people not just within Campus Crusade (Queensland, Brisbane)
35. Get the creativity of students ‐ not to subsection their faith with their creative activities.
36. through mentoring appointments
37. Talk to leadership to convince them that every new staff should be asked to include time in their schedule for Internet ministry.
38. This is the plan of the student ministry in the UK: With all seven campuses, sponsor their best students (those with a good sense of Internet ministry, not just tech geeky people) and get them together to form a  creativity lab, and ask them to come up with the best outreach strategy that integrates Internet with Media, and award them. Have a competition.
39. Form a team for my area that comprises field staff and younger guys to think about Internet technologies integrating with the rest of the ministry
40. Meeting with leadership team to share about what has been shown here at MinistryNet.
41. Find some students with the vision to work together.
42. Replicate the knowledge cafe
43. By showing leaders results of Internet ministry to convince them to put more resources and creative people into this field.
44. Collect stories.
45. Translate Gospel videos into
46. Two ways: train people and help them create things (brainstorming)… creating the space and permission!
47. Another way: create things and then give it to people from other Problem‐solving exercise: we want to reach such‐and‐such a
48. Try to connect with the world outside of Crusade and learn from them.
49. Organize a three‐week summer project with geeks and non‐geeks together. (incubator camp)