MinistryNet: Antalya 2009 October 18-22

Dear MinistryNet Participant,

For many of us, MinistryNet: Antalya 2009 was where God met us. It was an exciting time to learn new things, meet new people, and write plans for how we will integrate the use of the Internet into our movement building strategies.

We want to help you succeed with your plans! To do this, we are working to make the information produced during the Knowledge Café’s available in a summarized form, and we are working to get audio, video, slide shows, and other supporting documents available on this site so you can review what you heard or get what you missed.

1. Most of the Knowledge Café information has been edited and summarized.
   1. Here are all the unedited Knowledge Café responses.  These are the notes that were recorded at each table. They will remain on the this conference website.
   2. Here are the summarized, edited Knowledge Café responses. (Requires a GCX login for access). These will remain on the conference wiki.
   3. Will you help us edit the Knowledge Café responses? If so, follow the instructions on this page.
   4. Most of the audio files and many of the videos are posted to the ‘Archived Sessions’ page, along with the other supporting documents, like slide show files and notes.
      We have experienced technical difficulties getting the video files posted, so there have been some delays. We will continue posting audio and video files until everything we have is posted.

Will you take a minute and write what the conference meant for you and what your action plan is? Russ Martin started this discussion thread in the eMinistry Community in GCX, and it has been good to see what others are doing now.

We look forward to what God will do through you as you find new ways to use the Internet to help you build spiritual movements!

Blessings,

The MinistryNet Conference Team

P.S. If you have any questions about this, please feel free to reply and ask. Or post your question to the MinistryNet section of the eMinistry Community.

How can our company globally take advantage of social networks in order to reach movements everywhere?

1. maybe create an international social media site for that specific purpose
2. first look into what is being used, and then promote among everyone everywhere to use social media
3. international encouragement across  boarders
4. create national groups on facebook
5. maybe e.g. regional
6. making sure that all countries are using vlm strategies
7. communicating ideas in and across countries, like wikis
8. staff using social networks to share ideas
9. using foriegners to reach closed countries using fb
10. one country help download or pass info to restricted countries
11. raising spiritual awareness everywhere
12. cross cultural videos
13. international discipleship in a global family
14. peers around world
15. closed system? no, people have friends everywhere, even nationals in different nations. eg chinese diaspora
16. international online e-summer project
17. use it to help each other.   eg.  we have a need.   like helpdesk.
18. twitter helps others with needs for knowledge
19. so how do we get people connected in open networks?
20. how many countries are represented in our fb account?
21. resource groups and build fb apps to be used in other places
22. sometimes fb not best program for certain locations
23. study abroad students, who can disciple them over there?
24. we look for ccc movents there? do this quickly? global follow up
25. system and who is responsible there?
26. quicker cd to cd, not the whole chain (cd to ncd to nd to nd to ncd to cd)
27. system for regional delegation
28. think about dating services that have databases and tracking, so that we can connect people to right people
29. try to have our own social network?  just for us and our volunteers.
30. like barack obamas campaign efforts
31. right now we have gcx. but need to bring awareness.  use these to build communities
32. showing a short video tv etc in multiple countries eg about raising a kid in ways that could be universally useful
33. christian leaders catch vision for reaching world when they get together
34. interest to learn various languages and to reach across borders
35. idea of social causes that are global

We asked, you answered! Here are the responses you gave in the Knowledge Cafe to the question Looking at our current ministry globally, what strategic opportunities are we missing?

1. We are not participating as much in blogging as non-christians. Our blogs are mushy Christian stuff. Same in Romania.
2. Understanding the “niche.” We can see communities with different interests, people connect around this. We are not targeting by these types of communities, We’re stuck in an old mindset of only targeting students in dorms who may not be influencers.
3. The net is global, crosses boundaries, languages, etc. We as a movement are the same. We don’t need to focus as much on integrating, but on connecting. There are many examples of countries working together.
4. The post-modern culture is changing, they don’t just want info, they want community. Then they will value the info.
5. Often Virtual ministry is not included in our local strategic plans. If it is not in there, what are we doing about it?
6. A lot of technical expertise is concentrated in a few countries. How can we share that better? Can we develop a forum to better share tech challenges with solutions? GCX perhaps? Documented how-tos. Tony is volunteering.
7. MinistryNet is great, needs more frequent than 2 years. Perhaps online.
8. Tony from Australia: Technologies we aren’t using well:
9. CBN is using PABX systems to connect people live, online. Not typing emails but actually talking.
10. Some websites have a widget have a way to instantly engage the visitor in conversation. To improve the site, a pre-EV conversation, what are you thinking about now?
11. Christian students spend a lot of time on the internet, but they don’t treat it as a field for EV. Mentality is lacking in seeing themselves as witnesses. We need some Transferable Concepts on How To Do Chat/Online Ministry.
12. We need an intentional mindset that calls all of our staff and students to use the net for ministry. It’s good that globally we are talking about this. We must help CCC leaders see the value of staff time spent in virtual ministry.
13. We need changes in software response systems that allow a newcomer to “taste and see” with a few responses that can then be picked up by committed mentors.
14. Help recruit graduates, as they are graduating, to serve as ementors. What we want is people to develop online capability to work toward national impact.
15. What about GAMING? That is one of the most popular uses of time on the net. While people are gaming they are chatting with their friends. How do we break into this? It’s a closed environment with their friends. So they may be online 6 hours, but not surfing. Certainly not looking at evangelistic websites.
16. Eric C talked about the MonEglise.net, a church experience online. This is important for Muslims and others who desire to check out a church but want to remain anonymous for a time. We must lower the barrier for non-believers to explore the faith
17. Is there a common source of followup materials, discipleship group lessons available for us to all use on the net?
18. Making statistical reports available online for students/staff. We don’t know who’s working, what are the results.
19. From Day 1 in the discipleship process we need to plant interest in using the net for EV/Discipleship.
20. Sharing (public website, staff web/TNT) the resources with countries that don’t have IT people, especially small countries without technical resources.
21. Partnership with churches (especially since pastors are often older and not in touch with the technical world)
22. We aren’t very strategic in collaborating with other countries that are similar culturally and in terms of needs.
23. Lack of communication – a lack of awareness about what other countries are doing
24. Some countries are lacking manpower and communication
25. Continuing to share resources following this conference.
26. We are neglecting the smaller countries that don’t have anything set up. The bigger, more developed countries continue to develop, but they aren’t sharing it with those who need it.
27. CCC internationally makes things transferable, but in this case technology advances are not set up to transfer easily.
28. Lack of communication between campus staff and IT people to effectively use these websites relationally. Campus staff need to be better trained/involved in the process.
29. Combining TV and internet (internet TV) – doing some kind of, like, reality show to be a light. Getting Christians on a reality show to be a light on reality shows.
30. Podcasts – educating how to do ministry online. Educating on discipleship, etc. Crusade should offer something like this.
31. Addressing the felt needs of a specific regional area
32. Online seminars, in real time.
33. Arabs are traditionally bad readers – make our articles short (2-3 minute) as VIDEOS. Make every daily devotional as a video. If they like it, they can download the text.
34. Making reading online articles attractive
35. Putting articles in voice format – a radio program or an article with sound, so people can listen to articles on the go (in the car, walking).
36. Collaboration – some countries have excellent bible studies but other countries must develop their own because they don’t know about it. GCX is a good start in this direction. We should be developing the materials together.
37. We should continue communication between ministrynet conferences so that our learning is more continual
38. We need a singular platform – maybe a software/websites that we can all use to share our resources.
39. Translator tool that could make it possible to chat/comment on websites with people who don’t speak the same language.
40. We only do what works (everystudent.com) but we stop being innovative or creative, so we miss the opportunity.
41. We need more training material than just the follow ups – we need to know how to train people online. Sharing material with other countries
42. We need a site that shows us what each country is doing, so we can share the materials
43. We are missing opportunities with follow-up sites – training sites, connecting in real life with people we met in the virtual world.
44. Our websites should be translated into many languages to be able to serve more people.
45. Within countries, we need a place to share materials that we have developed (bible studies, songs, etc). We take things from outside, but we should share from the inside as well.
46. We should involve others (ex: volunteers) in the process as well, so that there is more multiplication.
47. Involving students in the process – they have the most creative ideas and we give them the resources instead of involving them in the creation of them.
48. A platform of information – who is doing what where? A website with resources? Who would do this? Like an idea forum where we all have a login. Sharing ideas/developing resources together. GCX is a start
49. Twitter – create something like that – create the new technology (the technology of the future). Something global for students.
    RDS is a great tool
50. Losing internet ministry opportunities in general due to lack of understanding and support
51. Social networks
52. Mobile technologies (mobile websites, aps for reading the Bible)
53. Need to move away from email – maybe a new dawn with Google Wave
54. Videos that are sharable to students
55. Evangelism and discipleship with branding for students
56. Social network and integration
57. Common architecture globally; leveraging global synergies, sharing
58. Lacking strategy for reaching the large number of people in the Big Country
59. qq is an enormous social network for the chinese but it is not secure enough
60. IPTV: application for bible study material in the morning
61. Distribution of used technology from developed countries to underdeveloped countries
62. Animation
63. Gaming

What do I want to change in my context or area more than anything else?

What is my first action point?

1. Tell the people who I am leading what we have done
2. Review our plans and update it with new ideas that help us doing virtual movement.
3. Mobilize new volunteers.
4. Focus on build disciples.
5. Convince the people I am leading to work virtually.
6. Continue training new people how to work in virtual ministry.
7. Website to make the churches lead the movement.
8. Share what I got with my ND and challenge church to engage in chat rooms.
9. Make TV website. Study what we have in media now and connect it with the virtual ministry.
10. Go to ministrynet and review material
11. Pilot project with starterbible
12. Share with my team what I have learned
13. Pray for wisdom in how to communicate with my leaders.
14. Gather my notes and materials, organize it, plan how to share it with
15. Share with staff and plan together, call a special regional meeting
16. Share what is going on around the world in the German staff conference in November so that they don’t develop similar things that already exist.
17. Select which tools best fit our region and share these with others.
18. Review the powerpoints from the websites. Focus on one idea for evangelism, follow-up, and training and apply and improve that idea.
19. Talk with church-led movements and leader-led movements.
20. Have a knowledge cafe with the guys in Africa.
21. Explain online opportunities in my church
22. Talk with pastor prayer group for my city
23. Talk with family life about applications that help them, they are not represented here
24. Try to recruit internet help for Family life
25. Organize my thoughts
26. Buy a computer
27. Prepare a strategic plan for internet ministry, make job descriptions
28. Prepare a presentation for the next opportunities when staff are together to share vision
29. Build partnership with internet TV station
30. Create opportunities that will mobilize people
31. Pray
32. Share this vision of what I heard with my team
33. Meet with other guys who do internet with ministry, 3 guys in our company but we are not a team
34. Staff families in Singapore will be together in November, maybe we can have a knowledge cafe and talk about integration of internet in other strategies
35. Be an advocate for using the internet in building movements as NCD I can’t understand everything but I can encourage the staff, provide resources, challenge the students
36. Gather a group of volunteers and student leaders and share vision over a period of time, not all at once because they will forget. Show them active sites and help them see what is happening in other places. Show them that it is simple, they could do it.
37. Sleep
38. Process and prioritize
39. Begin using facebook and continue relationships begun here
40. Talk with my leadership team and ask them for an action point
41. Lots of follow-up emails with people from the conference
42. Talking with church pastors and motivating believers to get involved as volunteers
43. Add virtual ministry session to our NLTC for campus leaders
44. Meet with our team to review conference and formulate the strategy steps
45. Take the constructive feedback on our system, and begin assigning tasks to our developers

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)

How can we help new believers continue to grow?

We asked, you answered! Here are the responses you gave in the Knowledge Cafe to the question If I have no internet outreach in my country, where can I start?

1. make steps for staff to start, build and grow spiritual movement
2. make website so that users can contribute
3. employ students in web development
4. training for believers to use ministry website
5. create several sites for people to be reached -contact info, SMS, ph #, email address -database for contacts for return reply/contact
6. build webs to relate to your culture
7. raise funds to build web ministry
8. find a good platform to involve and mobilize web savvy developers
9. look for technical ability and time -involve people from church, students
10. teach ppl how to use ‘easy’ page- (Facebook, my space) to do ministry- talking about their faith
11. encourage believers to learn how to get folks to use exisiting Internet resources (publicize) find ways using tv to promote Internet connection. Witness through weakness. Short reports to show reality of our lives and to connect with us.
12. learn how to do discipleship from a distance, teach by example. Create group/on one discussion opportunities
13. start with what is already available. Try something. Don’t think that you have to have all in place.
14. build more websites. -research to determine value to market, open/closed , spiritually ready/not ready
15. Call Eric Celerier (Top Mission, France)
16. Find out where people in your country are/communicate. Which social network is used most?
17. recruit people who also want to use the Internet for their outreaches
18. Build a team/contact the churches -look at what already exists -take a first step
19. recruit ppl from social networks
20. google search for other internet outreaches
21. Create small cards (for Christian websites) and give them to students
22. get to know the needs of my country
23. make a plan, know your audience
24. meet people who already use the Internet successfully
25. combine different medias (TV, Internet), for showing our own life)
26. connect with existing social networks/chats -open Internet cafes, Christian website as homepage (starting page)
27. researching the interests/needs in your society
28. see what kind kind of material you need/exists
29. starting small (ie: post articles/thoughts on your facebook profile)/start a blog -find partners (International/national)
30. create knowledge café online
31. pray
32. partner –students, other countries, pre-existing stuff
33. Develop and share the vision
34. establish target and goals
35. start small and  build big. Let it grow -think beyond internet–. Mobile phone strategy?
36. ask for ND sponsorship and resource
37. Talk with Andy Hendy, Marilyn Adamson- ES.com -get training -learn the vision–share the vision -develop the vision -
38. IM testimony prep or Internet friendly testimony
39. email the 4 laws URL and ask for comment
40. Ads for URL of evang. Site- cards, shirts, bumpers, etc. -encourage staff and student blogging link to sites -use facebook profiles— post links, etc.
41. Start with wordpress (blog site) or joomba -finding someone with is doing, then translate
42. organize a conference for motivation with churches/other people share their experiences
43. ask for contacts from other ministries, partner with them -translate good articles that others will find interesting
44. a summer project for people to “check it out”
45. consider security factors (esp. VPN)
46. contact rich street -think about “borrowing ideas” not “owning”
47. get an IT person, a good one, actually 2 of them
48. determine why there isn’t a net minitry already- what are the barriers -overcome the barriers
49. start with a clear vision- not just the websites, start movements, not just= lets get something, anything going (strategic planning_ -start connecting with people on social networks or blogs (meeting them where they are) -meet others who are online already (in churches, etc.) and encourage them to start internet ministry in the ways that they are equipped -train those who already know how to communicate through the web to have a foundation in biblical princiles -share how online ministry is effective in other countries
50. consult others with experience in ministry on the web and connect with those in your country who would already work on the web
51. take other sites that are successful and adapt and change them
52. cross languages/cultures (include students in the process)
53. adapt to make relevant to the culture (this is key)
54. Free sources
55. wiki for Austrailia campus crusade -resource highly accessible for movements that are without staff
56. find someone with passion, find someone equipped to work on vision
57. start with a blog. Something simple, testimonies etc.
58. Connect with those who already have experience start with emailing ppl who have questiond
59. connect people with questiond to communities. Use skype for Bible studies or conferences -not always necessary to create your own site.
60. find exisiting content, and resources and adapt it to the culture.
61. Intergrate the Internet to the basic ministry first, then allow it to grow into a supplemental ministry
62. find people interested in serving oline (communicating the vision to students to the church)
63. start with simple website to have a presence
64. connect with people outside CCC and awareness day for web ministry
65. advertise on facebook
66. shareable content on facebook
67. email people (start simple)
68. start establishing a network w/ simple signs “if you’re one of the Father’s sheep, see..”
69. have students case vision in churches
70. adapt everystudent.com (see M. adamson)
71. pray, gather like-minded people
72. find where your students already meet online (use that platform or network)
73. use existing resources
74. find believing technical people people to give advice
75. a way to use online games? Facebook games?
76. connect, mentor, minister to people in existing ministries
77. mobilize believers
78. reach people in community
79. find someone who’s been successful to consult
80. start blogs, networked together
81. stickers “What do you crave?” “Feeling alone?” link to website or email address
82. facebook group of believers or our class
83. find best social network
84. culturally adapt sites from GMO truth media, topchretien (top mission) -
85. build follow-up team locally, they feed you contacts
86. share testimonies in chat rooms
87. find language specific chat rooms or set one up.

We asked, you answered! Here are the responses you gave in the Knowledge Cafe to the question What works well for you on the internet? What are you doing successfully in the area of training?

1. training to motivate the staff to use Internet in ministry
2. training to use various ways to use the Internet (Facebook, Twitter)
3. training e-coaches using the “driving question method”
4. training to increase Internet skills
5. video training in French to train counselors
6. video blogs- everystudent.com
7. delicious.com/tohagan/im/collaboration
8. webex-web conferencing
9. misisonary from home.com
10. skype training
11. bomgar.com
12. download marerials via online system
13. training our students in summer break conferences in how to do good eMentoring for everystudent.com
14. Used internet voice conference for a virtual trans/discussion on “how to minster to Intl students”
15. starting With God website contains follow-up and basic evangelism training. We direct new Christians to this site and ask them to write us their feedback
16. Use skype to talk with them after going through the website
17. sometimes send books by mail to them
18. flash, video, text, interactive. most effective when they have a coach who keeps them motivated to finish course
19. chat room sessions. Run small groups online. Gather the chat room leaders online. We’ve seen new believers through a chat end up on staff!
20. website to connect with young people
21. Germany-wiki- how to organize a conference (very helpful for catalytic)
22. website for new Christian bible studies. We can direct a new believer to it
23. content/resources for leaders on password-protected site
24. has email address that works only with the se-cure site to communicate with others
25. address list, who is doing what in leadership roles so we can see who is doing what
26. facebook group for student leaders
27. wordpress blog sharing ideas on how to use Internet for campus ministry. Auto responder so people can sign up for it
28. mediaforministry.org, 2-3 min. training videos, life widget.com, searchable list of widgets from blog
29. everystudent.com
30. recruit students to be e-pals, mentor
31. put training tips for the students online
32. local training for our mentors, getting physically together for training
33. website with resources- how to reach people on the internet
34. materials website w/ info for training coaches
35. training w/ group of students (conference) to train them
36. train staff to make a website evangelistic websites (personal) and 1 central website with content of all the personal ones
37. on Internet challenge Christians to share their faith that week (for example)
38. Bible study with Skype
39. graduated student leaders share experience with recent students
40. sending Christian material over Internet using email
41. platform to train volunteers and for graduated students to continue to stay in contact
42. theological forum
43. e-learning
44. website with articles
45. short videos
46. email contact expert
47. Q and A by expert
48. mentoring people through chat
49. video conference- skype
50. facebook for updates – conferences, meetings offline
51. online ships for ordering books
52. NLD online
53. skype meeting
54. materials in different languages
55. training volunteers for coaching evangelism online
56. books and audio- NT on website
57. online videos for staff about virtual movement
58. responding to the skeekers
59. to be a volunteer, personally training
60. let new believers to share the gospel via chat programs to get confidence
61. online mentor for training
62. chat ministry for training (live char once a month)
63. encourage volunteers to be part of different webpages
64. Internet conferences
65. resources for Internet
66. training materials online (PDF format)
67. e-coaching online)
68. very short training segments (video, interactive)

We asked, you answered! Here are the responses you gave in the Knowledge Cafe to the question What works well for you on the internet? What are you doing successfully in build?

1. using Facebook
2. posting link on profile page
3. running ads on Facebook
4. Taiwan: chats and message boards on websites
5. email series to help new believers to grow
6. promoting conferences by running contests having users create videos and posting to youtube
7. sending (physical) mail to people for follow-up
8. Yahoo group.com
9. resources posted
10. using chat to send resource
11. provide accountability
12. pray for them
13. “Daily Bible” Bible app; share what learning on passages
14. students using GCX communities/project to organize movements (collaborate)
15. Forum to exchange theological topics
16. Bible studies posted on a wiki
17. videos on youtube (Josh McDowell)
18. blog entries that people can study
19. audio content on iTunes
20. Pulse app for Bible study scheduling
21. online study group through Skype
22. wiki website for Bible study resources
23. 6 follow-up lessons on websites
24. Forum of online discipleship group
25. onlie schedule to organize action group meetings
26. ability for physical groups meeting to join (shift) online group
27. online church for internet users
28. E-learning courses for new believers
29. discipleship materials by online
30. startingwithgod.com
31. student peer development
32. secure Internet website
33. online training for new staff with GCTC content
34. compass materials available in intranet wiki
35. connecting people with online mentors
36. sharing devotions online each day through mobile phones
37. having wiki for each campus
38. learning from each other on wikis
39. resources.campusforchrist.org
40. partnership with SIMPLE website using Google ad words
41. BEFORE adwords, PREPARE COUNSELORS for follow-up
42. contacting new believers 1. Send to site 2. Personal contact via skype, phone, yahoo msgs
43. “Skypleship”= can pass any info, any video, etc. while on Skype
44. Daily devo via email to a large audience. Offer more opportunities
45. P2C has a CAREER PATH for PUSH responders mobilize volunteers
46. P2C-use PRINT copy to daw to site powertochange.com
47. Builds brand trust. Offer different levels of involvement (increases capacity)
48. Offering online classes (for a full year includes e-mentor trining with Bible college students
49. Filed testing: VISION CASTING- of how God can use you, explaining how to build movements
50. India: using VOLUNTEERS (students, supporters) to reply to ARC contacts
51. P2C: Also use online Bible study and ongoing chats using “10 Basic Steps”
52. Train chat hosts/moderators (of truthmedia.com)
53. starting your own youtube channel?
54. Sp. Relevant clips to share with friends
55. WhyJesus website- following up with people who are interested (Netherlands)
56. with an e-coach-between faith decision and discipleship
57. Meet in person after the person accepts Christ-invite to a campus event (Bible study, English club)
58. 2 websites with systems for follow-up (and a toll-free line to call) (Istanbul)
59. startingwithgod.com-connecting personally using IM and Facebook
60. Transfer our ‘build’ materials into comics (Thailand
61. walter e-learning Bible study
62. startingwithgod website
63. Invite people from website to par
64. In evangelism training, encouraged people to use everystudent.com artciles to train/disciple
65. facebook app to help campus ministry (build)
66. Together on Mission (TOM)
67. sending online resources to friends (facebook, twitte
68. sending follow-up emails from everystudent.com
69. database with ready answers to send questions (through emails or Facebook)
70. uploading short videos to initiate discussions
71. GMO-response system-web-based
72. volunteers-training- excellent role models
73. resource library-snippets (text, video, widgets)
74. lifewidget.com
75. Email lists- short message in series
76. wikis
77. training resources
78. corporate knowledge
79. scheduling- time management calendar syncing
80. volunteers
81. blogs
82. facebook groups
83. twitter prayer requests
84. short videos
85. many volunteers
86. Training
87. Chat/MSN
88. Connecting to local church
89. 10 basic Steps.org
90. online follow-up
91. growinginchrist.com
92. e-mentors (1-on-1, email)
93. teaching about sharing
94. facebook fan page
95. everycampus.org

We asked, you answered! Here are the responses you gave in the Knowledge Cafe to the question What are the greatest problems that you are facing?

1. having a proper follow-up system
2. training/finding volunteers (qualified)
3. willingness of staff and students to commit time to internet ministry
4. need of a team of software engineers and funding to outsource
5. partnership with churches (doctrinally on same page
6. can’t apply same strategy across our area
7. supportive leadership
8. leaders not open to new ideas
9. older leadership, younger users
10. how to coach, lead
11. a lot of expertise in online advertizing, but know that others will waste resources.
12. not viewing internet as ministry
13. feeling of uncertainty
14. how to measure effectiveness
15. manpower
16. no full-time Japanese campus staff doing IT/VLM
17. colleagues don’t understand the potential of internet
18. human resources (follow-up, connection)
19. not enough manpower
20. training
21. most qualified to reach out on internet are young and untrained
22. internet is compartmentalized/marginalized in the minds of leadership
23. China doesn’t have internet ministry team, no example to follow, let every team know the potential of the virtual world
24. security problem, letting others know what to say over internet when it’s highly monitored
25. post 90’s target group
26. catching up with changing generation
27. how to make sure staff and student leaders in simple ways in ministry
28. most of staff do not think of using virtual things in ministry
29. degree of uncertainty
30. need to partner with those who have the same mindset but work in different types of ministry
31. no internet ministry in strategic plans
32. no global leadership initiative
33. country leaders need conference like this to be won and get vision to
34. how to submit virtual ministry to students – problem of trust (sensitive country)
35. virtual ministry doesn’t have very visible results initially
36. tension between traditional and virtual ministry results
37. cannot share gospel with 60% muslim and have historically shut things down when in Maylasian
38. people don’t write back after responding to the gospel
39. our staff are not educated in modern technology/mass media
40. not able to use media in an attractive way
41. methods and modes outdated
42. change minds of staff
43. need to show what we are doing more broadly through internet TV and broadcast TV
44. communication and resources need to be available (e.g. PSD file availability)
45. we need more collaboration of materials, knowledge
46. need to be able to search in a wiki-type system with server capacity
47. data access within our ministry
48. There are no good examples of good spiritual movements through the internet.
49. Most of the staff dont look at the internet and use it for their ministry, they are not enthusiastic (in Egypt).
50. The paradigm of the way things were before, and the mindset of ministry. If leaders are ready to change the paradigm, and if they are not then the virtual movement wont go forward
51. People need to own the vision them selves and people struggle with doing virtual ministry.
52. Security with regards to fellowship and discipleship online is an issue.
53. The communication skills of the staff in Iraq are lower and they need more training with how to do virtual ministry.
54. Sometimes they are told to do it but there is no training in what to do and how to do it. More materials of how to do it.
55. Not all staff are building spiritual movements in face to face stage (some are doing admin) so it is hard to know what to do when it comes to virtual movement.
56. It is easy to be distracted in their time when they are on the internet doing ministry (email, facebook, etc)
57. Leaders are afraid that people will waste their time on the internet, so they are less likely to give them freedom to do it.
58. People online can hide behind a fake identity, so it is hard to trust if it is real.
59. People in China dont like to do email and just chatting….and a CCC policy in China is that they are not allowed to do chatting (which is what students like to use) because of the security issues.
60. There is a lack of laborers who are willing to spend more time doing internet ministry.
61. The team is not just web designers and IT people, but there needs to be more people that are taking ownership of the follow-up aspect and also people that are good at wording the right answers to people’s questions.
62. It is hard to see the level of people’s committment when they sign up. They may be excited when they sign up, but after a little bit of time they lose interest or motivation.
63. Because there are so many inquiries from the websites, and there isn’t enough people following up, so the turnover time in following up with people is too slow and students may lose interest.
64. How to empower the ementors themselves takes a lot of effort and training in how to do their jobs in a Christ centered way and how to have the vision for the long haul (you cant just write back quickly, but you have to pray and seek the word for these answers).
65. The ementors have a hard time feeling like they are a part of the ministry group rather than somebody less than the team.
66. It is hard to find the time apart from the campus ministry to do virtual ministry work and do it effectively.
67. The relationship between the team leaders and the operations team can have some separation and practically there are a lot of leaders which makes decisions with virtual ministry which makes it hard to find common decisions.
68. It is very time consuming to build good websites….and even then in some closed countries it will be shut it down/block it (in the Middle East).
69. There have been a huge increase of hacking of the major sites used.
70. Losing people who made decisions through the website after a time and because they were just virtual they are impossible to find in person.
71. Most of the time it is the STAFF who are doing the work and they don’t bother to try to involve move of the STUDENTS. Staff want to keep hold of it more often than not.
72. Lack on qualified team member / workers
73. Lack on qualified volunteers
74. No national Internet Ministry team
75. Lack of proper content in native language
76. Internet is not everywhere in the country
77. Security issues for the site (for instance hackers)
78. Security issues for users and owners of sites
79. Transition from evangelism to discipleship
80. Internet is not seen as strategic ministry by the leaders
81. Not enough native speakers
82. Not knowing how to reach people where they are
83. Cost for visitors to be on the Internet
84. Not easy to start a spiritual conversation
85. How to lead the people who want to do Internet Ministry
86. Bad words, provocations and threatening people as response of the site >>How to change a discussion into a real conversations
87. Streaming media isn’t working great in areas with slow Internet
88. Idea in organisation that Internet Ministry is just for technical people
89. Too many possibilities results in being ineffective, how to focus better
90. Collaboration
91. Financing Internet Ministry
92. Help needed for starting Internet Ministry (Plan / document : How to start Internet Ministry)
93. Overloaded staff, stetting disciples free
94. Not knowing to mobilising effectively a bunch of volunteers to create a movement
95. Not seeing people from online contact transferred into a real life contact
    

What strategies should we use to help more new believers online pursue discipleship?

1. How fast I connect them. I should connect them as soon as I can.
2. Personal relationship online. So people will feel that there is someone in the other side understands what he is saying.
3. The way of answering emails should be attractive and brief answers. And also it should be personal not copying an article and paste it the emails.
4. We should have training of how to answer emails in a good way.
5. Automatic emails. Ask questions in emails.
6. Ask eMentors to email people who have not responded.
7. Connecting them with social networks or instant messenger. Invite them to continue in this way.
8. Encourage them into the virtual discipleship process.
9. Skypleship.
10. Rescue strategy from TopCretien.com. Screen appears when someone tries to leave from the homepage. “Before leaving, we would like to tell you that by continuing on the site, you can get free resources, free Bibles, and free interaction with our coaches.” 70% recovery rate and don’t leave the site. Don’t use popups which are blocked. Use Windows warning message.
11. Have different options for the followup process. Offer options like: Online chat. Automatic emails. Online bible study.
12. Investigate how to better use social networks. The power of Facebook. People feel very secure in groups, especially with their friends. Create small discipleship groups on facebook. Train someone to lead. After some time, the eMentor withdraws from the group and the newly trained leader continues leading. Then he/she can multiply by training another person to lead.
13. Use online “person of peace” strategy. Look for a person of peace. Train the person how to collect a group around him/her.
14. Count “virtual” time as ministry time. Change the idea that time on Facebook is non-ministry, wasted time.
15. Encourage face to face meetings.
16. Respond quickly when a message arrives. Quick responses communicate value.
17. Use autoresponder system.
18. Connect converts to similar people. People like people like themselves.>
19. Invite people into our social groups. Invite them to join your facebook group.
20. Encourage converts to tell someone about their faith.
21. “Baptize them”. Baptism means identify and become part of a community. Help them publicly identify with others. Enter into accountability with others as a necessary step.
22. Don’t drop the ball. When we delegate contacts to our teams, use metrics to know if they waited too long or whatever. Use a followup administration process/system to prompt and train them to respond.
23. Have video followup. Real people, really talking. Short films or short pieces asking questions. Open possibility for anyone to be involved in these conversations.
24. Have eMentors make a short YouTube video of themselves that they can send a link to inquirers.
25. Have small social groups for study. Use social networks to get converts into groups.
26. By asking questions. Trying to understand the new converts.
27. Present truth in small pieces, not large theological dumps. The focus should be on the interaction as much as on the content.
28. Use a push, not only a pull. Push information to them.
29. Providing an online community. Get people into groups. Allow them to relate to each other. Move to communication other than email. (Email is one-to-one, we need group interaction.)
30. Find multiple ways to increase the  relational element. Keep the conversation going to help deter dropoff.
31. Find other ways of connecting with the person. Become a friend in a social network. Use chat messenging. Ask questions about non-theological things to communicate that you are interested in his/her life.
32. Look for ways to disciple by groups, not by individuals. Get into online groups.
33. Give them a lot of options, not just one thing.
34. Get into groups so that you can learn from one another. Use 2 group leaders and several group members. Learn from one another.
35. Give them opportunities that increase commitment. Opportunities to get involved locally.
36. Be clear about what will happen in the groups they join.
37. Some people like to read things. Some people like to watch videos, listen to music. Find out how the person likes to receive ideas and direct them appropriately.
38. Make videos of people who have completed our online groups or courses. Allow them to tell what they learned, how they enjoyed it. Make these videos available to new converts to encourage them to join a group.
39. Help new converts know how “Christian things” work. Explain how church works. Explain what Christian things are.
40. Formerly, believe-behave-belong. Now behave-belong-believe. Help them get to the end.
41. Engage people to pray.
42. If someone tries to leave without filling a response form, open another window with options for online followup.
43. Suggest good questions the person may be facing. Allow them to ask for information on a question selected from those above the form.
44. Include information that would increase their interest in continuing. Followup email should include the same additional information to make good continuity.
45. Followup should focus on truth, relationship and service. In relationship part, encourage to join groups. Can be done through Facebook, mobile phones. For service part, encourage convert to volunteer, to eMentor new friends from the website.
46. Deal with misconceptions about what it means to be a Christian. Pre-followup.
47. Mobile learning applications that walk people through the discipleship process.
48. Pursue some mobile applications
49. Introduce virtual multiplication from the initial contact in follow-up.
50. Find out about them so you can best understand them and their needs.

We asked, you answered! Here are the responses you gave in the Knowledge Cafe to the question What works well for you on the internet? What are you doing successfully in the area of outreach?

1. Italy: sharing using I.M. : long conversations, multiple exposures
2. connect online invitation with physical event
3. stories!!
4. Invite for a nice face-> face interest group
5. chat by voice/chat-> PALTALK
6. Youtube as promo
7. Facebook links
8. Postcards as advertising
9. on I.M (MSN) to add link to website in profile name
10. chat use for counseling (1 to 1 and group chat)
11. flash/film on Facebook/YouTube, etc.
12. email about an article; audience is using this
13. content connect felt- need with people
14. landing pages
15. everystudent.com
16. offiline short films on laptop conversations
17. Ad words contacts
18. chat
19. poster/billboards, advertising
20. cooperate with local church
21. shared interest groups
22. using social networks for maintaining contacts
23. skype
24. websites for local campus ministry
25. SEA staff NOT involved in student ministry; just let students use and contro
26. Jesus Film and Knowing God link
27. Finding people on social networks
28. Using youtube channels (Uque TV) ultimatequestions.org gets people talking @ questions, (follow up with debate/event)
29. Goat vs. iPod (2 goats to a family or an iPod)
30. big advertisements, publicity, magazines
31. using GMO (Global Media Outreach)
32. advertisements, search engines
33. intentional conversations with people online (students) on a personal level (MSN, Facebook
34. Going where the people are (Acts 17)
35. Sending people to websites (whoisjesus, etc.) and doing online follow-up and or face-to-face
36. translated websites into all major languages (India)
37. created Jesus202 website (form of cricket called 2020 so when searched for 202 the site comes up)
38. adopt a website from scratch (putting people in a room, training on www design, tech person made website from their experiences/training in life)
39. everystudent, knowing God website with e-mentors, follow-up
40. site devoted to dating/marriage and using it to explain the love of God, purity, etc.
41. Blogging with life experiences, VERY regular updates
42. using Facebook to write people from  a university (initiative friendship with intention to share)
43. using small groups with chat rooms
44. topical and connecting people with life situations
45. online mentoring program
46. media sticker “what are you craving” to pizza boxes, etc.  (links to e-mentoring)
47. personal testimonies on Facebook
48. articles
49. videos
50. open a chat room (internet radio site)
51. advertise on big websites (famous portals)
52. facebook and google ads
53. email answering systems
54. “chat bot” (with virtual machine)
55. making Turkish-christian sites
56. connecting w/book-distribution sites
57. toll-free lines (free materials)
58. “choose a religion” website
59. online surveys
60. websites
61. videos
62. facebook
63. google ads
64. audio
65. podcasts
66. 4 Laws
67. viral marketing
68. publishing articles on other sites
69. mass advertising campaigns (in skywriting)
70. multimedia presentation of 4 Laws (orthodox)
71. testimonies
72. articles
73. meetings and gathering on facebook (groups)
74. email correspondence
75. forums
76. everyarabstudent.com
77. kaarirfitallah.com
78. BBS (internet “board”) forum
79. Evangelical website
80. skype- “I believe in Jesus”
81. blog of bike ride
82. exploring needs of audience
83. testing what other countries are using
84. social media (national fan page)
85. simpe gospel ppresentation
86. arabsex.com
87. love and sex topics from Christian perspective
88. creating a team of people who think the same way

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

We asked, you answered! Here are the responses you gave in the Knowledge Cafe to the question How do I influence the leaders above me to use the Internet strategically?

1. Help them recognise how our students are spending their time, how much online. If we can show them the stats, how much time they are spending online a day…!
2. Showing our leaders how a technology will solve a real need everyone can see.
3. Showing the danger of not going down the road of virtual at all…! helping them to think through the implications of not following the new generation into the virtual world at all.
4. Get testimonies and examples of models from other countries to be able to show.
5. Stories are persuasive. Statistics only go so far, then people’s eyes glaze over. If you can share stories, even share a photo.
6. If some Campus leaders still exist, get an agreement with them to try a limited trial and evaluate it after that.
7. Check where they are in their understanding of the virtual world. Don’t present it as a project, as extra, but as something that helps them achieve their current objectives.
8. Once I show african leaders how easy it is to create a new website, how it can be done in 1 or 2 hours, they are amazed.
9. Ask them to test something small, then show the results, and bring the results to our leaders.
10. Our leaders probably feel personally inadequate to move in the virtual world
11. Asking them, what do you want to see happen? Do you want our staff engaged in the virtual world?
12. Lack of vision, lack of desire? The leaders feel limited themselves in this area, so that is why they don’t take the initiative themselves into this area.
13. Many of our leaders are not tech savvy
14. We can ask our leaders to write articles for our websites, it will create interest in their minds.
15. Reaching the scope to show how short we are falling sort of reaching the scope, but how the internet is a tangivble way to move toward the scope.
16. Going through it with them, showing them it is not scary, how it will work.
17. Ask the leadership to choose the best people, to be part of the design being able to come up a concrete initial plan helps the leadership accept.
18. Do a lot of research what are the needs, what is the situation, what are others saying? We visit our field ministry teams to talk to them, do online surveys of them.
19. Present the key needs in whatever we produce
20. Come up with a design document. You are presenting a design to your leaders that is tied to real expressed needs coming out of the research.
21. Workload breakdown structure, how much it is going to cost, who is going to do what.
22. Make them excited about internet ministry
23. Statistics and experiences of other countries
24. Tell them that students are on the internet and you can find them there
25. Use the internet strategically yourself so the leaders can see what happens
26. Ask to do a pilot within a certain time to show what is possible
27. Excite leaders to attend internet conferences
28. Share articles, blogs and things you’ve learned in conferences
29. Share ideas of what works
30. Pray for the leaders
31. You can show statistics
32. Share stories
33. Introduce people who benefitted from the ministry to the leaders (new believers, disciples etc)
34. Bring colleagues together who have the same idea about internet
35. Work together with internet and local ministry so they see how this can work together
36. Make your passion and vision known to your leader and the bigger picture and that you want to make it happen
37. How internet can fit into the field of ministry he is most interested in expanding vision not bringing new vision
38. Give them the feeling of expansion of vision
39. Tell your leaders about what other leaders do
40. Educating them about the things that are happening on the internet, what internet is used for
41. Show how you use your time on the internet
42. Introduce them to for example facebook, twitter etc.
43. Showing them how you can advertise your events of local ministry online
44. Videos on expansion of the internet
45. Convince them they will still be in charge
46. Use simple technology so they can do it as well
47. Show how effective internet is compared to other ministries
48. Let leaders meet people who became Christians trough ministry
49. Helping the leaders without expertise with the technology (if they are willing, but don’t know how)
50. Assign leaders to be e-mail responders of evangelistic websites
51. Show video of steve douglass
52. Strategies for “region focused” internet ministry (so leaders feel that is will affect their local area of concern – not “out there” on the global internet)e.g. combine an outreach event with online follow up (Truth Media)
53. Handout flyers locally for a web site / survey site
54. Put ads in local newspapers
55. Paradigm shift of leadership  they don’t have to be the experts in internetministry, but allowing the workers to do it
    That they understand that it is necessary
56. Engage in conversations about internet ministry
57. Clarity of success in building spiritual movement

We asked, you answered! Here are the responses you gave in the Knowledge Cafe to the question Where can I focus my time and energy to bring the greatest results?

1. Work with students volunteers
2. Focusing on internet ministry instead of going one to one
3. Giving campus staff times to be online
4. Evaluating our current situation
5. People with us to advertise to our websites
6. My time and efforts to focusing on making disciples
7. Spend more time investing in existing strategic partnerships
8. Clear maps for what we already do
9. Develop training so we can grow beyond where we are now
10. Giving encouragement to volunteers.
11. Develop an attitude that at beginning of planning we go with what is already there. Don’t waste time creating what is already there.
12. Mire communication to student leaders out there in the field.
13. For people knowing things exist and doing.
14. Team leaders need to incorporate online time as ministry time
15. Create a place online where we could post solutions and ideas with specific instructions that we all can access
16. Mobilize volunteers:Get volunteers who have the skills and time to move key projects forward
17. get to know as many potential volunteers as possible. meet Christians and give them a personal invitation to get involved.
18. identify key parts of yourn strategic plan to move things forward and get volunteers and other leaders with gifts and passion in those areas to lead.
19. Develop leaders to do what you are doing to increase capacity and responsibility on to others.
20. Understand different types of students and Identify the students/volunteers that are most ready and motivated to work through the internet and involve them.
21. Share vision with them and help them stay motivated to be involved
22. equip volunteers
23. Do things in a way that will serve internationally as we develop
24. Do a proper planning, save us time and give good results.
25. Analyze well current reality and give attention to the areas of great need, looking to best practices and finding people that will be able to help you move that piece forward
26. Stay on one focus for some time don’t jump around.
27. Focus time and enegry in things that invest in people. Look at what you do? what is your greatest results? Is what I am doing getting to that?
28. Identify a mentor to work with us as we navigate uncharted waters, for connection, ideas, accountability, and coaching.
29. Prayer/ ask what God wants you to do and focus there by faith. Avoid feeling sufficient in our-selves.
30. Learn the internet culture in your context. What are they like
31. Communicate with your team/locally as well what to do how to do it
32. Social network, gather a pool of friends. Use the search capabilities to find the people you are working with. Tweeter key word search can work as well. (For example search a language group, or interest, or specific university.)
33. Envision students and others for building movements via social networks. We need to empower them to focus on Relationship and movement building. Encourage them to as peers to learn from each other and build movements where they are via Social networks. ask a student: “how are you going to reach the campus and build a movement via Social networking, get a few others together with them and challenge them to figure it out.
34. Focus on Follow-up and connection with local churches the traffic and responses we are seeing
35. Focus on using mobile devices/ this is bringing a drastic change compared to the internet. How can we focus there evangelism and discipleship through mobile devices.
36. Promotion and plan for followup.
37. Translate what you are doing for your supporters and others who are not so tech oriented.
38. Be a good listener, listen to God and your team
39. For AOA level leaders: give more oversight and encourage things that are working to multiply. cross pollination.
40. Give time to learning web languages and technology to better support strategies.
41. Getting reasonably clear on what is the meaning of “greatest result” should be a priority. Until we’ve got that clear, we won’t be able to focus and work
42. Focus time on your volunteers under you because that’s where we will get the most results
43. Focus on learning the technologies that are most adopted, upgrading ourselves
44. Focus on where your target audience is
45. Know yourself — the area where i’m already (1) most motivated (2) able to do something and (3) what brings the most value/result
46. Learn the things that are more motivating to me instead of spending all the time on a difficult or too quickly obsolote technology matter

We asked, you answered! Here are the responses you gave in the Knowledge Cafe to the question How do we make the gospel more “findable”?

1. Google Adwords
2. Social networks – put on status bar
3. Videos on YouTube
4. Billboard
5. Offline marketing
6. More people living it out – personal advertisement
7. E-mail friends
8. Text message
9. Video, audio messages
10. Putting audio files in profiles in social networks
11. Make it attractive to find
12. Local language and local English search keywords
13. Blogs
14. Helpful to involve in social activities, e.g. social programs how to raise up children. Advertise in these programs.
15. Banner ads on popular websites.
16. Link adverts to the top searched keywords, job, sex & relationships
17. Post link to article on Christian website on their Facebook status line a few times a week
18. Videos on YouTube – promote the website from there.
19. When there is a national event or disaster, write short articles, and relate them to the gospel. Then place adverts with relevant keywords on Google.
20. Prepare articles like this for top six disasters that are going to happen any year.
21. Visible presence in places where people are – e.g. a society at university
22. Make a website
23. Send a Bible verse a day by SMS with an explanation
24. Relate to items in the news – send SMS from student leaders when things occur
25. Short video on YouTube relating to current events
26. Paid for advertising – in newspapers and news magazines
27. Search engine optimization e.g. by having blogs link to our websites
28. SEO by having our sites link to each other
29. Post answers in Yahoo Answers and Wiki Answers
30. Relate the advertising to the things that people like to do – in Morocco, everyone watches cooking programs and soccer matches.
31. Put testimonies in website of people who do popular things.
32. Find out our niche and do that niche well – e.g. promote videos from AIA if people are interested in sports.
33. Put Jesus film in clips on YouTube
34. Search engine optimization
35. Button or plug-in for other Christian websites to use, that relates their website to yours
36. Put gospel plugins on non-Christian websites
37. Sponsor other non Christian and Christian events to promote the ministry
38. Incorporate the gospel in regular things in life – keywords that relates the gospel to regular events of life e.g. sex, party, beer.
39. Website that scratches a felt need, e.g. “welcome to university.com” that gives tips for freshmen on how to settle into college. This site could have ads to your Christian website
40. Find out what subjects the students are interested in e.g. sex, depression, success, and hold forums on these subjects in e.g. Facebook.
41. Facebook advertisements – things that aroused curiosity.
42. Create advertisements in on-line games, e.g. world of warcraft about, God, stress, money
43. Make more websites, and work on the websites that we have
44. Ads: facebook
45. Every person enter more groups on facebook and enlarge his circle on yahoo, email lists…
46. Chat rooms
47. Short films on YouTube linked to our websites
48. Google ads
49. Present social services for people to know us more and feel that we are available
50. Make a site like facebook
51. Use facebook
52. Google. Google. Google.
53. Business cards with EveryStudent.com. After a survey, give out a business card. Volunteers can give out cards.
54. Have a personalized page on EveryStudent.com. Give a business card of your personalized page.
55. Writing your testimony on Facebook. Maybe create a fan page with your personal testimony. Others can join as “fans”.
56. Create a video testimony and put on Facebook and other social networks.
57. Have your friends vote for your testimony (video or text page) and see whose is most popular (as a way to encourage interest).
58. Use Twitter to take the gospel into whatever people are already talking about. Yesterday’s top trend topic was “no God”. We need to be there! “Why is ‘no god’ the topic today. It should be ‘know God’” (with a hyperlink).
59. Use crossmedia. Online plus other ways to get people’s attention. Billboards.
60. Ask students to help brainstorm ideas.
61. Begin putting the awareness of sites on all church bulletins
62. Publish student magazine with non-gospel articles but meets the needs of students
63. Tapping on current trends to quickly put up gospel content linked to what’s current (a wave) that people will be searching for
64. We can create trending topics on Twitter if we concertedly use gospel-related keywords (e.g., use “jesus” a lot in your tweets)
65. Google ads
66. Paid advertising
67. Gospel-related content that’s compelling and marketing it well
68. Tweeting/Facebook profiling compelling videos
69. Generating content that’s associated with the gospel
70. Blogs
71. Pastors can encourage people to share their testimonies on their blogs
72. Gospel and Muslim keywords together
73. Muslim keywords so that when people search for “Mohammaed” they find “Jesus and his gospel”
74. Serbia’s example: secular articles about topics students want to read. Opportunity to publish articles on prominent national TV station’s site
75. Search engine optimization
76. Using hash tags to advertise Jesus
77. Properly tag every blog post
78. Categorize all videos, blog posts, songs properly in their right categories so the search engine can index them well
79. Put gospel content to video and music and post it
80. Don’t call gospel concerts gospel concerts. Call them something that people will want to go to
81. Radio advertising through internet radio
82. Partner with Christian businesses to promote our sites through their products (e.g., stickers)
83. Use google videos
84. Compelling marketing ideas

We asked, you answered! Here are the responses you gave in the Knowledge Cafe to the question How can I get more training in some of these areas?

1. Partnership with organizations other than campus
2. Have a tool box for training
3. Local training: every ministry can train their volunteers with materials specialized for every ministry
4. Use new tools in training like Media, video conference…
5. These kinds of conferences can be good. Some of the volunteers could go overseas where internet ministry is in flow and learn from them.
6. List the websites and application so that people could learn from them
7. Make the advantage of the trainings available online, Russia is doing it. Make people aware about the trainings available. GMO, David Paul Watson, Blog – expertise in Church Planting
8. Learn from each other’s success stories
9. How to use facebook for Churches, Internet EvangelismDay.Com, Internet Evangelism. Org
10. Learn and adapt from the current ministries.
11. Ministry Net Conference
12. Virtual Ministry Net Conference regularly (Every Six Months)
13. Tell Leaders that we have need and get expertise from him,
14. Learn from the Secular Tech Magazines to keep you updated
15. Hang out with tech Students to have fun and discuss with them to know the latest trends
16. Use GMO and Truth Media Training
17. http://delicisous.com/tohagan/im+training
18. http://delicisous.com/tohagan/truth-media
19. Use Miro to download videos from in vodcast format so that they can then be played without stop/stop problems.
20. Useful in districts that have slow internet.
21. Go through material from Truth Media.  ( Perhaps adapt if need for local situation)
22. Create a vodcast catalogue of all of our training videos (Example: miroguide.com ).
23. Create translated versions of video training for regional areas.  Adapt training or augment for local cultural issues.
24. Catalog of staff – Who to go to for specific knowledge.   If you have a knowledge wiki that records authors then you can contact the authors.
25. Training in how to reach people who are living in the virtual world.
26. Bring key people to regional or international training events and conferences.  Problems and solutions are specific to region.

Areas where training is needed:

1. Being an eMentor
2. How to use question-directed coaching
3. Utilising social networking
4. Understanding the mind of the emerging generation
5. Creating attractive websites for non-Christians
6. Using visual media to communicate the Gospel
7. How to make the most of using volunteer students to build a Internet ministry team (what skills, ministry background,
8. How to communicate overall Internet ministry vision to non-staff

Training Options:

1. Subscribing to eNewsletters
2. Resource Portal to collect training materials for equipping in an area
3. Skype conference calls
4. Standardise some of the critical training elements using subtitled video and translated documents
5. Topic-based global webinars
6. How To manuals incorporating best practice

We asked, you answered! Here are the responses you gave in the Knowledge Cafe to the question How can we mobilize volunteers in my [strategy] setting?

1. E-mentors are motivated, ask them to ask others.
2. Working with pastors and mentors, ask them to recruit others through their networks and denominations.
3. Providing good technology so they enjoy the task.
4. Finding a better way to train volunteers.
5. Clear job description for a period of time. They know what they are committing to.
6. Make it clear that they own this ministry. Together we can do something,but by ourselves we can not do anything.
7. We are here to help you.
8. Share stories. Would you like this to be your story? We can help you. Also share the great need.
9. Make the timing flexible to help them.
10. Come to an agreement with small steps, small and growing committment.
11. Give them a chance to try it.
12. Help them realize how important the job is. Share stories, personal experiences.
13. Make it a community where everyone is recruiting and working together.
14. Engage their hearts. Help them see that they need to be a volunteer.
15. Often there are financial needs. They need a meal or transportation to get to the center.
16. LTI Leadership Training Institute (Christmas Conference) Invite them to
    come with a group of friends.
17. Create a need.
18. Write articles.
19. Use their experience. If they are a medic they can write an article about God in medicine.
20. Make sure you find out their skills and interests.
21. Ask them what is causing them to lose interest or to drop out.
22. Create a video to communicate stories and the need.
23. Equip them to reach their goals.
24. Study their goals.
25. Building partnerships with churches. Maybe they don’t have resources to teach their people how to share their faith or disciple someone. We can offer training.
26. Churches try to guard their people and resources. They view our company as a threat.
27. Share my story, or story of students who are searching for God. They need help. Share this with staff.
28. Check my social networks to see who is active online. Challenge them to be involved in online ministry.
29. Join our community of online mentors, where we learn from each other, learn about marriage, about parenting.
30. Be transparent
31. Be more flexible with the volunteers in times and ways
32. Ready materials that can help them to serve
33. Find real opportunities to the person who wants to serve
34. Have fun: good environment
35. Encourage them and set unreachable goals
36. Give them roles
37. Bring people from events to register and help
38. Presentations with church members
39. Giving people a vision for doing ministry online
40. clearly defined roles for volunteers is very important
41. organize a conference to recruit them and interest them in the internet ministry
42. take existing stories to existing partners and ask them to help you raise up volunteers(china….talked to other Chinese ministries that were already doing it)
43. need to be clear on the time required
44. we need to define what the qualifications are required in the volunteers that we want, not just skills but doctrinally as well
45. we need to create a database of new believers, then train them and gather their contact information so we can invite them to get involved with us
46. recruit volunteers from your website
47. using Together on Mission application to gather people who will be united in cause
48. to come up with other applications that we can use(Together on Learning, Together on Fellowship)
49. Launching people thru our sites to go to something……go on a project, go do something, teaching them how to promote something, harnessing sending volunteers
50. mobilize using a Contact Management System or a Response System
51. host ‘Training Technology Institute” (same idea as Leadership Training Institute)
52. use Facebook, Amazon, other existing system to increase popularity of our materials, training, etc
53. build our tribe by launching them on a regular agenda or project, etc so they are part of something bigger
54. training is very important so that their excitement can continue to grow
55. Share the cost of doing something, bring them together to train them(Malaysia has trained 30-40 mentors to respond to Everystudent.com)
56. personal coaching first to get thru training and then ongoing as they get involved
57. sharing stories is so important
58. share encouraging stories
59. realize that people have different personality styles so we need to learn to recruit accordingly.. motivated by numbers, stories, people…everyone is different
60. use different ways to recruit
61. Clarify job description for volunteers
62. Potential volunteers: staff wives and mothers, church groups
63. Significant needs for volunteers to do
64. Provide training to volunteers to benefit
65. Communicate clear needs to our pastor networks
66. What are you mobilizing the volunteers to do? Discipleship coaching? E-mentoring

We asked, you answered! Here are the responses you gave in the Knowledge Cafe to the question How can I take advantage of social networks in my situation?

1. Advertisements on facebook, links for all our websites
2. Groups on facebook (everyarabstudents….)
3. Bible study on facebook
4. Search the YouTube on some videos and use it on discipleship, evangelism
5. We have social network in Facebook, Orkut (India)
6. Chat is going from Skype to Facebook
7. YouTube, innocent, some use Twitter, classmates (Russia),
8. Social networking on internet is often taken from private time, should be taken from ministry
9. Daniel from St Petersburg has a tool on Facebook to motivate people for outreach
10. Inviting for retreats is more effective than other invitations
11. Look for certain hashes who are similar but not just tricky
12. What are common search words, address to these topics in conversations
13. Lot of friendships on Facebook are among Christians – look for people you know, who are not christians
14. Make a second account what don´t look christian, invite random people
15. Respond to key words in twitter, start a conversation
16. Show supporters, what you do on facebook, increase you mission base
17. use Videos & Flash banners for advertising
18. in some countries people are reducing using facebook to extensively. They wont click add everything…
19. Send helpful links to all your friends
20. use the campus group of you university
21. search for peoples special attributes
22. invite for christian events and retreats from your social networks
23. how can we connect facebook and e-learning?
24. Link facebook as an existing network to bring people to your sites and communities
25. some people are open for social work, target them for social projects you are doing
26. run facebook ads for evangelistic websites
27. Produce more facebook apps
28. Resourcing local movement
29. Shared resources from other countries
30. Tools to evangelise
31. Elements for cross-country interaction
32. Students exchange Mission trip follow up after students from one country visiting another country
33. CCC to start create their own social network, e.g.
34. Various types of Facebook Fan Page to virally impact people i.e. theologically fan page, eg. resurgence fan page by mars hill fan page
35. For fun and innovation: “I hate meeting” fan page  thinking out of the box for CCC staff to have fun and engage, and bring in the culture of getting into social media
36. Exploring Twitter
37. Competition for students to come out with the best tweets for people to engage in spiritual conversation
38. Physical components on campus to work with social networking
39. Open for people to contribute to MinistryNet Facebook or Wiki
40. Sharing your testimony on Facebook or personal blogs (shareable by social media)
41. Video testimony on Facebook
42. Getting students to involve how to use social media to think of ways to communicate with their friends whom they meet day-to-day
43. Check out the current issues on top trending topics on twitter and link them to our fan page, or take proactive steps to address them on facebook, twitter etc.
44. Different Facebook groups for different stages of people’s spiritual journey
45. One’s country internet resources to share… meet somewhere online … mission trip online… student VLM unconference
46. Introducing TOM apps to students – but need to be alive and active, not boring, and serve the students’ interests
47. To bring in community for Discipleship purpose… online discipleship group
48. Get an “emotional” video posted on facebook and write an follow up email to anyone who response
49. Fan page (in Australia)  to invite partners, students to get in touch with ministry news… viral effect of communication