MinistryNet: Antalya 2009 October 18-22

We asked, you answered! Here are the responses you gave in the Knowledge Cafe to the question What do I need to know or learn about using the internet in ministry more than anything else?

1. How do deal with security and volume issues (big country in Asia)
2. How to target specific groups (like students). Advertising?
3. How to be less centralized, empower everyone to own it, network them together through links (could be 100 different everystudent.com prototypes created by students)
4. A global wiki of ministry tools would be great. List stuff that has been built, where to look at it, how to get it, who to ask for more info. A GCX community?
5. How to get people to keep coming back and engage in discipleship?
6. How do we take our existing discipleship and size them for use on the web?
7. How can we embed new application in existing sites? Will that be effective?
8. I’m just starting. How do I do the basic stuff – put an advertisement on facebook? Get instructions on other basic tasks?
9. How do we make something attractive to a culture that is very churched, but is not living it out? (Jamaica)
10. How could we create some multimedia resources to reach people?
11. How can we find relevant ways to contextualize everystudent content for our students (in Malaysia)?
12. How can I focus on my gifts and find partners to round out the ministry?
13. How do I empower staff and students to do the ministry, and integrate it with the rest of the ministry?
14. How to make discipleship more visual and interesting? An idea of a Christian reality TV. Modeling evangelism and discipleship. Be a light online. How do Christians fight and resolve conflict. People will see where we get our resources.
15. How to build a team that doesn’t just build a site, but knows how to do the followup and everything else.
16. How to interpret results, statistics, figure out what parts are working and what should be changed. Know what is working so that you can find support for it.
17. How to build strategies, start marketing.
18. What web applications are available, and how can they be used in ministry? Can we find an expert?
19. Could there be an Internet consulting team? Could start with one for all of CCC, then build them per region.
20. Could there be a Knowledgebase of Frequently Asked Questions? This might help national leaders buy in if they see that help is available.
21. How do we build online community? How can we meet general needs, not just spiritual needs?
22. Tomorrow’s tool-need to adapt. We need to know the future.
23. I need to know what interests students. What are they using.
24. How to deal with security issues.
25. How to communicate virtually – mindset
26. Need to know culture/context
27. Produce something relevant to the people
28. New direction, new mindset – are we ready to let go of the methods of the past. Are we ready to change.
29. Someone to focus on this.
30. We need to believe that ministry and movement can happen this way.
31. Learning to create websites. And promote. And maintain.
32. How to touch souls via written communication.
33. How to use technology
34. More about how to use FaceBook
35. How do I do virtual discipleship
36. How do I set up a chat room, seekers group, facilitate a virtual group
37. I need to focus and decide on two or three next steps
38. Understand how to reach goals using the internet
39. How can I help with my gifts to get others to use the internet
40. Introduce new technologies, but keep them very simple to allow volunteers to help
41. Our ministry needs to understand how big this could be, globally
42. To put together a team to help solve problems and coordinate communication
43. More integration in the overall strategy. Decisions about priorities and stratregies. What do we do or not do.
44. To learn how to submit the ministry to students. How do we give the ministry away but still manage it artfully.
45. Learning to deal with sensitive countries.
46. We need to know our audience better. We can operate from assumptions.
47. Much study on post-90’s generation.
48. We need to unlearn what we’ve learned in the past. Communication is more fluid.
49. We think face-to-face is more effective. We need to shift from that.
50. We need to understand our target audience to be more relevant.
51. How do we work together. We have tech, content, and understanding of students. Now we need to bring people together.
52. We need leadership to be committed to pulling together resources.
53. We need to know it’s not about technology.
54. We need help from leaders to work in this area. We need freedom and endorsement.
55. How do I make friends with new students. My facebook friends are adults.
56. I need to influence my leaders, educate them on internet use.
57. Get in touch with new technology and changes.
58. It’s difficult making friends on social networks.
59. Need a creative team to lead in communication.
60. I don’t like the computer. I don’t like this sort of contact.
61. How do I best know what is happening in other places and countries.
62. What system is best to use for managing and following contacts… sometimes it can be inefficient, with a contact getting constantly passed around. Not just a virtual system for contacts, but have a human resources infrastructure and clear action plan of responsibility for follow-up.
63. How to start a bible study online, simply through just a few contacts. This could especially be effective in China or other contacts outside singapore. What system is best for efficiently discipling and sharing in groups?
64. How to turn a superficial contact into a genuine conversation and connection? 1,400 email contacts, 1 of 10 respond to follow up of this email. How to really elicit a greater response from follow up emails.
65. How to have a salty presence online to make people thirsty?
66. How do I set measurable goals for internet ministry? Other than analytics how do we measure growth and impact?
67. How do you estimate if your ministry is dynamic and not too rigid or step by step?
68. How do we measure results of internet ministry, compared to traditional statistics?
69. How to bring people from offline to online? What is a pre-evangelistic strategy to make people seeking for answers that can be found on our website?
70. More and more seeing the state of the culture, and also the needs of the culture, and in turn responding to that in the formation of the online ministry.
71. Learning to simply be more effective at creating online content.
72. Initiative evangelism on the internet needs to start on a personal level. Being intentional to use time on the internet for witnessing.
73. How can I practically think globally, while still trying to be effective locally? Flexibility in the way I use online ministry?
74. How to have more of a christian presence on the internet without a good website, using existing resources and websites like facebooks and blogs?
75. How to raise support on the internet for the internet?
76. To form a new strategic plan to implement internet in the ministry, and how to effectively use students and other human resources integrated into this ministry. Connecting existing mentors in physical ministries to virtual ministries.
77. Understand the minds of the students of today.
78. How do do follow up and to move from ministry to movements.
79. How we keep the internet contacts in longer contact with us?
80. People have different needs, how can we avoid what we know, instead of sharing with them according to their needs.
81. How to shape the ministry and take positive action instead of reaction.  Engage in conversation rather than push information.
82. Developing transferable concepts and follow-up materials Bible study materials.
83. Train staff students, to do internet ministry, relationship building..
84. Train volunteers to do ministry from their home, as part of their personal outreach.
85. How are the best people to invest in ministry, High school students will be at university