List of Digital Projects Needing To Be Done...

#1... Lay More Communications Tracks... in advance of "Faith Hope & Love" this summer.

• Purpose:  See Faith Hope Love.  You'd be expediting future collaborative actions of mercy, kindness and community service.
• ...with LONG-term impact too... til the Lord comes back.
• Especially URBAN region (the newest region) would be accelerated... by some hands-on internet training... in order to expedite the planning & execution of FHL Week in July.
• You're helping bridge the 'digital divide' !!!  Moreover, of the two -- urban & suburban -- which communities could BEST use free & easy (and impactful) new communications tools?  Urban, right?  Yet our urban communities are LEAST well-equipped on the information highway.  God's perfect sense of justice surely calls us to do something about that.  And here are some opportunities to make a difference...
• Prep in advance?   [some pages could be prepped in advance; some phone-calls made, appointments set up, training locations set-up, etc.]
• Go to key urban centers and show/train leaders (and/or assistants) how to easily collaborate via the web.
• Especially via a common, collaborative, Christian wiki... here at CityReaching.org.
• Alert them to the Internet Toolkit... [maybe you could even improve it, tidy it up, grow it, etc.]
• Indy Timeline... Very importantly... help them all to know about 'Indy Timeline'... After all, these are the collaboration ACTIONS in the city.  Centralized bulletin-board, so to speak.  Help them know how to get THEIR collaborative events on there.
• Collect information... Start a wiki-page with them... and thus help the rest of us become aware of what all is being done ALREADY in these urban centers.  Eg... computer labs & training.
• Mapping YOUR Community... and collecting key data about it.  See Mapleton Fall Creek neighborhood in the Ask Anything Saturday wiki.
• Alert them to TechMission.org -- formerly AC4... Association of Christian Community Computing Centers.  It's a terrific, low-cost, Christian resource.
• Shoot some video clips... and alert them to how they too could participate in 'community tv'... to display at a number of websites like IndyChristian.TV.
• Help collect NEEDS-based info & issues...  See the WYNS pages within the AAS wiki.
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#2... "How To Get To Heaven From The Internet"... Do an internet training overview, searching for the most important info on the 'information highway'.

• Plan ahead... and prep signage (yard signs for the neighborhood)?
• We've done this before -- people are VERY interested.  [Credits:  This real-world approach is a take-off on the internet article by the same name.]
• Open-up shop at a local (wireless) cafe.   It wouldn't even necessarily be a Christian establishment.  Just be sensitive.  Do unto others. 
• Identify yourselves... eg. Java Chaplains hats. 
• Step through overview of the internet.  Be willing to answer questions.  And share the most important info on the information highway.
• Possible nuance... It can be as simple as using an Excel file... using EE's 2 Diagnostic Questions... Hit the Calc key... and la voila... their answer!
• Link folks to other Christian collaborative activities in their own local neighborhood.

#3... Some Other Good Idea? ... Short-term project with long-term impact?

•  I thought maybe a day like Monday, meeting people, doing lunch, showing some stuff and asking questions of what new friend / people would like to learn to do. Demo stuff facebook.
•  Then day two arrange to be present, and help the new friends accomplish a blog or free blog as a web or using godtube or shoutlife or making a wiki or getting an email account.
•  Perhaps if this all went well and there were still some loose ends, a third day could be on 'now that you are doing it, what snags are you hitting, or ministry possibilities facing'
•  On that day three doing some mutual collaborative internet divide problem solving, exchanging emails for more info and such.  I'm guessing mutual edification, outreach dreaming.
•  If it was a four day event, perhaps learning to skype or setting up other online ministry tools.  It would be great to have an expectation of praying together, doing lunch together, and shared personal testimony sort of things informally.  Perhaps lunch not in working pairs but in family group tables together with some mixer topics for getting to know others.
• I must confess that the stuff above is perhaps TMI even for me.  I don't know tech-mission or community-tv, but we could well learn and network and serve. (5 points above under "...Some Other Good Ideas?" are by JBW as suggested FYI.)