1. Looking for FREE (mostly) Computer Help (and
Resources)
Roy Yabuki, DFW Director
And the ISI Tech Team

2. Who am I?
 Japanese-American
(Third culture)
 Met God early, got to know
Him in college
 Lived all over country…
 Grew up with computers
 Passion is ministry and helping people to do
ministry as effectively as God called them to
 This stuff does not necessarily come easy for
me either.

3. What about you?
 What are your technology challenges and
needs?
 What are your goals for being at this
seminar?
 Which areas in handout do you want to
focus on?
 May not have time to do all…
 What is your level of proficiency
and attitude toward technology

4. Goals
ISI techies will help you understand and
develop time- and cost-saving computer
skills, or will help you find solutions to some
of those nasty problems that have you
stymied, waste your time, and jeopardize
your sanctification!

5. Choices
 Understand and develop time- and cost-
saving computer skills,
 Resources available to make ministry life
easier
 Help you find solutions to some of those
nasty problems that have you stymied,
waste your time, and jeopardize your
sanctification!

6. Web 2.0 Tools great for ISM
 Community Building Tools
 Collaboration Tools- Sharing ideas
 Communication/Training/Discipling
 Mobile connection
 Resources to learn how to do things

7. Community Building Tools
 Social Networking
 Sharing the Story – Getting the Message
Out
 Video – Stored on their site, Embedded on
yours
 Photos
 Creating Easy Websites
 Mass e-mail

8. Social Network: Facebook

9. Facebook: Whats up?

10. Facebook: Chat

11. Social Networking - Groups

12. Media Sharing

13. Media Sharing: Tagging &
Sharing

14. Other Media Sharing
Pictures

15. Collaboration Tools
Working Together Helping Each Other
 Working together
 Working together
 Making life easier ?!
 The Body being the Body
 Still need communication & coordination
 Students/Volunteers/Supporters as
innovators and co-creators
 Web is becoming more of a 2
way conversation than a store
front.

16. Media Sharing: Video

17. Easy Websites

18. Mass E-mail

19. Collaboration Tools
 Social Networking
 Technologies for Sharing
Ideas, Questions, Resources
 Microblogging (aka What is a Twitter and
do I twitter or do I tweet?)
 Group Database
 Event Planning/Registration

20. Social Networking - Groups

21. Social Networking
- Ning
 Free
 Way to create quick
self contained social
network
 Takes time to
manage and
maintain

22. Event Planning / Registration
 Eventbrite

23. Sharing
Ideas, Questions, Resources
 Blogs
 Forums
 Wikis
 Project Management Sites
 Cloud computing

24. Sharing Ideas: Blog
 Like a Ship’s Log or a Journal
Story of the Journey
 Observations, What happened and what
was learned
 Chronological but searchable
Idea Sharing & Amalgamation

25. Sharing Ideas:
Forums, Wikis, Project
Management
 Forums
“An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion
site. It is the modern equivalent of a traditional bulletin
board, and a technological evolution of the dialup bulletin
board system. People participating in an Internet forum may
cultivate social bonds and interest groups for a topic may form
from the discussions.”
 Wikis
A wiki is a website that uses wiki software, allowing the easy
creation and editing of any number of interlinked Web
pages/documents with easy search capability. In other words
a place where people can store many documents that all of
them are editing together to created a body of information.
(e.g.wikipedia)
 Project Management Sites

26. Microblogging

27. Cloud Computing
 Shared documents
 Google docs
 Zoho
 Office Live Workspace
 Shared Storage
 Microsoft Skydrive
 Box.net
 Drop.io

28. Communication/Training/Discipli
ng
 Voip/Screensharing/Conference Calling

29. Communication/Training/Discipli
ng
 Private Publishing
 Blogs/Wiki/Filesharing
 Scribd – books, booklets, etc.
 Slideshare.com

30. Mobile connection
 iPhone, Blackberry, Google Android
 Netbooks & Cloud computing
 http://voice.google.com

31. Rules of the Road
 Web 2.0 Technologies
supplements but does not
replace direct human touch
 Web 2.0 is intrusive and so
forces transparency
 People will find out the truth
 Why afraid of intrusive things?
 Everything is “live,” but archived
so be wise about what say and
reveal

32. Rules of the Road
 No more gatekeepers
 Direct access is the norm
 Implications on our relationships with students
 Implications for making relationships on campus
 Discipline vs. Nuisance
 Like anything, Weekly
gathering, visiting campus,
prayer letters –
takes discipline
 Learning curve steep but
getting gentler

33. Trends
 More people around the
world on the internet doing
more things
How People Use the Internet
US US 18-27 US 18-27
Adults Men Women
Creators 25% 41% 37%
Critics 25% 45% 37%
Collectors 12% 29% 16%
Joiners 25% 59% 58%
Spectators 48% 67% 60%
Inactives 44% 22% 28%
Groups include people participating in at least
one of the activities monthly. From
http://www.forrester.com/Groundswell/profile_to
ol.html.

34. Trends
 Mobile Internet Will be Main Access
 According to Cisco 2009, Mobile internet will
grow 66 times in the next five years
 Annual growth rate for Asia projects to 146%
and 166% for Latin America.

35. Trends
 There will be more working together using
the internet
 Movements will spread quicker, Ideas
develop and change faster. Resembles
spread of a virus in the jet age

36. Conclusion
 Conclusion
 Other Resources
 How do I? Online tutorials…
http://ISMTips.net
to stay on top of this stuff and to share you
ideas… Not just about Technology but all
innovative ideas in international student
ministry.