This is a Guest Post by Vajaah Parker, who’s live-blogging the BibleTech 2010 event! Greek breathing, Hebrew thinking, Bible software developing, theologically grounded tech geeks and low tech, bible loving enthusiasts descended on San Jose, CA for BibleTech 2010. Informative sessions abound but Stephen Smith’s, “Tweeting the Bible,” 45 minute visualization of his 10 month [...]

This is one of those online apps that you look at and you think: Huh. That’s really cool…! And… why did they making me pay for it? Now don’t get me wrong, I’m all for paying for great online apps and services but I’m tempted to take RowFeeder, a simple mashup of Twitter and Google [...]

SXSW Interactive has been an amazing combination of content and community. Evan Williams (or @ev) called  Twitter an information network, and in this clip goes on to elaborate on what he means. Take a look:

There’s a lot of need for a simple way to display tweets given a certain criteria such as hashtag, keyword, or even a specific group and user: To get started, choose a hashtag, username, or keyword. You can filter the results further and customize your Tweetwall on the next screen. TweetWally is another such service. Signing [...]

So your church, ministry, or organization has finally decided to get on board with this whole social media thing. Great! But, in your excitement you go all out by creating accounts everywhere you can think of: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Vimeo, Tangle, and anywhere else that you’ve heard that people are hanging out. If you’re [...]

Quick question out to the community: Which styling option would you prefer we use for our Social Sharing (Twitter, Facebook, Buzz, etc)? We’ve got two options to choose from. Please let us know which one you’d like us to use:

This image here is probably the most accurate depiction of what Twitter does in terms of your traffic generation strategy. A “rocket” effect. And that, my friends, is your friendly “Tip of the Day.” You can find more posts related to Twitter here, or just use our Google Custom Search box and enter “Twitter.”

We’ve been doing some growing…! It was a pleasant surprise to see that we’ve broken over 1,000 RSS Subscribers (via Feedburner) on all the network sites in less than 2 weeks time! w00t. We hope that you’ve enjoyed the content so far and that you’ve found it useful and valuable. More to come! If you [...]

I wonder if we spend as much time on our spiritual lives as on Twitter or if we’re half as inclined to share how our lives are going (in the spiritual sense) as we are in our Tweets. Just something to think about as we move into another weekend of “activity,” “Church,” and “Spiritual Work.” [...]

We’ve been hard at work tweaking the design, running code queries, and even installing new applications to make this iteration of ChurchCrunch (and the rest of the 8BIT Network) the best community platform ever. I’ve learned a lot about how this community responds to change and have taken extensive notes on how to make it [...]