I think something as simple as making sure you are in control of your interactions with technology, instead of letting technology define it. For example, just because Twitter is constantly updating doesn't mean you need to be constantly monitoring. Knowing your boundaries, and how you want to experience life, and then leveraging technology to help you accomplish that is what I believe is a healthy perspective. Letting technology dictate that experience means you will be always "on" and it will take all your attention, and with social media grabbing and keeping your attention is every sites "business plan." Facebook, at its root draw, is trying to keep you on their site for more ads. Google gives it apps away for free in price because your attention is more valuable. Realizing that your life and attention is what is truly valuable, not the technology or the cool things it can do is a realization we all need reminded of...

it is for me - but analytics is a whole new ongoing role in my job - so having access at a comprehensive level adds a lot of value for me.

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Awesome! (Also note a majority of the comments were actually made on Friendfeed for this post - and then IntenseDebate pulled them in "inline" - bam sucka!)

Thanks for sharing this with the Collide community! As anyone has questions from the video just let me know!

Hello Marian. What can we be praying about?

How many times have you "had" to connect to your home computer when mobile?

I am upgrading but I am still on the first gen iPhone I got in August 2007 cracked screen and all. Sold my 17 inch MBP a couple of months ago so I have my money in hand and I get the upgrade price - so it is all good for me. :)

Hey matalie, Church Online certainly isn't ever going to replace face to face relationships and we don't suggest that it will. But that doesn't mean people don't find value in the relationships they develop online. Online environments are very capable at developing rich and healthy relationships, and there isn't anything to be sad about in that reality.

I would be interested to hear how much rebuking you do on a day to day basis and how that speaks into your pastoral heart. It is certainly possible to have that sort of communication online through an established relationship in healthy ways.

Online we have plenty of small groups and personally I have a couple relationships in which we hold each other accountable and cheer each other on, even though not in the same physical location.

One of our major learnings is to make sure we aren't placing our preferences for relationship and community onto everyone else that we interact with. Many who connect with us have found value, healthy relationships (even their marriage partner) and spiritual growth through online community.

I would be interested to hear how you've spread the gospel using The City. (It is that internal social network tool for churches that costs $1 per user per month correct?)

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