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[kingdommediatv]

Top Reasons to Build a Streaming App for Church

Live streaming has become an indispensable tool for churches worldwide, especially when you want to expand your reach to remote members…

[techinewswp]

Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Joins Gloo to Lead AI Innovation for Faith-Based Tech

Once the CEO of Intel and VMware, Pat Gelsinger has now taken a new challenge in an entirely different encounter with the world of high tech

[catholicer-blog]

Dear Catholics, here is your sibling in Christ, taken care by OSA sisters at the end of the world: Ketapang, KalBar, Indonesia. Would we also love our brothers and sisters in countries you might not even heard of? We are inviting all of you to join Jesus through Catholicer build Faith industries. Entrepreneurs, let’s build Love. Engineers, let’s make love possible. Designers, let’s make love persist. LawMakers, let’s make love unfiltered. #Catholicer is helping @spiritfilledhearts and SpringRainGlobal of the Philippines, to help bring connections and resources to help their hospital that needs equipments for the local people. #FaithTech people, please help donations easily go to the end of the world for our bro/sis in Christ, and work together with us. (at Ketapang Kecil, Kalimantan Barat, Indonesia)

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Catholicer distributed Holy Objects from Jerusalem & Bethlehem to Students who won raffle at UC Berkeley #UCCC2018 Conference in front of the Q&A Panel, and call for Students around California to join in communion to build a new #FaithTech sector industry as a real action in response to Pope Francis & Benedict XVI's call for New Evangelization. #newEvangelization #catholicerHome #communio (at Berkeley City Club)

[jasonleecj]

Visited @influencerscity campus church at #Adelaide. Did you know that you can text to give? #Faith and #Technology = #FaithTech #Australia #WWJDays (at Influencers Church City Campus)

[biblebridge]

If you're searching for (Biblical) love online, what do you find?

Yesterday we established that "love" is far and away the most popular Bible topic to search for online. So if you start clicking through your Google results, what do you find? Probably something like this: 

Or if you scroll a bit farther down the page, there are some sites more like this one: 

Most of the other options are variations on this theme: low-quality user experience, and content that is keyword-driven. 

I should be fair: the topical Open Bible (pictured above), a mashup of data pulled from Yahoo! and the ESV Bible, aspires to be a thematic map of Biblical content. But the non-keyword data generated by users is limited, and the UX is a serious impediment to the site's vision.  

I have to think that we can do better. Already three out of four churchgoers read the Bible electronically: is there a more elegant and intuitive solution for their questions about faith, hope, and the greatest of these - love?  

[biblebridge]

How are Christians discovering Bible-based content online?

As a first step toward designing BibleBridge, I began studying existing Bible apps and analyzing Google Trends to understand how Christians are searching for Bible verses and related content. My goal was to answer the question: what are the existing use cases for Bible-based apps and online resources? 

After pulling together the search data and the behaviors I observed, I identified five primary use cases for Bible-based content: 

Navigating to a specific verse or resource referenced during church or Bible study

Seeking encouragement and inspiration from trusted sources, and through them serendipitously arriving at specific content

Attending an occasion or life event, such as a wedding or funeral

Investigating a sensitive or controversial topic (e.g., "what does Jesus say about...")

Following through on a commitment to deliberate study of God's word

It's in the last few areas that I see an opportunity for BibleBridge. The first use case is crowded with YouVersion and its many copycats, and the second will continue to be served quite well by the church leaders active on Facebook, Twitter, and the rest. But topical discovery is challenging for nearly all online media, and particularly broken for Christian content. 

Later this week I'll post about the topics that users most commonly search for and the shortcomings of the tools and results that they find. 

[biblebridge]

Hello!

Welcome to Building BibleBridge! Over the next few months I'm going to use this site to track progress as I work toward the launch of BibleBridge, a mobile application designed to "bridge" the gap between God's word and daily life. 

Along the way, I plan to share the questions I'm investigating, prototypes of the product, and sources of inspiration. I hope that the discipline of posting keeps me on track to launch later this fall, and that your input makes that launch a success. One thing I know for certain: I can't do this alone. I need your feedback and advice, and above all, I need the Lord's blessing. As Paul wrote, "Each one should build with care. For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ" (1 Corinthians 3:10-11). 

Thank you for coming along for the ride!