**Updated** Wow - What a crazy community response… Hit the jump to see if you’re a winner!
Disappointed that nobody gave you your favorite candy over the weekend? Despair no more… today’s your lucky day. That’s right, I have 15 invites to Google’s (debatably) useful Wave beta, and if you act fast, one of them could be yours!
Want one? All you have to do is leave a comment below telling us a creative way you think the Church could take advantage of Wave’s unique communication abilities. If you’re one of the first 15 to respond with a qualifying comment, you’ll get one of my invites; it’s that simple.
Be sure to leave a valid email address when you comment so we know where to send the invite; good luck!
Winners
Invites have been sent to the bolded names in the list below. If your name isn’t bolded, that means you’ve won, but I need an email address so I can send you an invite. You can send that email address to us at hello@mediasalt.com. If you haven’t responded in 24 hours, I’m going to give your invite to someone else!
- Aaron
- Phil
- Jack Minardi
- Josh Boone
- Scott Horberg
- Dave Hamilton
- Danielle Bean
- Dan Kassis
- Jenn Mathis Davis
- Adrian
- Jimbo Stewart
- Jeff Clark
- Beau Waldrep
- Anthony Bliss
- J.Mac Brown
It looks like the invitations won’t be sent instantaneously. Here are Google’s notes from within Wave itself…
Invitations will not be sent immediately. We have a lot of stamps to lick.
Thanks for all of the great comments everyone!
I am hving problems today…. so as I was saying Jesus told us that we need to get the good news message out to others, and the most effective way to do that today is with new media. WIth the wonderful powers and was of touching so many, google wave is a way to share, adn ask questions about our faith. It is a great way to see just how important faith is to others and get answers that you are looking for. It is a great way to start a prayer chain. The wonderful things that google wave can do for the church is too much to see!
Eleven qualifying comments so far… only four invites left up for grabs!
I work across a few ministry platforms with a lot of volunteers coming up with creative ways to get the gospel out. I have a hard time having clear communication with all of them to save their valuable time. Please give me an invite.
Immediately, I’d love to use Wave as a tool to help myself stay organized, communicate effectively and efficiently, and have more meaningful “conversations” via email. As far as ways the church could use Wave, I’d love to experiment with using Wave as a part of my church’s website as a live discussion board or other interactive community discussion tool that could be tied in with sermon series, event feedback, or any other type of conversation I can think of. Help a brother out!!!
I thought of another one, as a catechist, I know that reaching out to children is hard to do. Expecially since I work with young adults. Using technology and creativity is one of the most effective ways to get attention. Google wave is a great tool to use outside of the classroom to have them join into conversations and continue learning about God’s love. it is a great way to reach out to the youth!
In music ministry, I have to communicate with choirs, soloists, band members, and tech teams. I believe Google Wave can be used to simplify this process in my life and help me become more organized in my communication to all these different groups and people. A majority of my communication in ministry is done virtually and I have a tough time keeping up with all the different voices coming at me each day.
In music ministry, I have to communicate with choirs, soloists, band members, and tech teams. I believe Google Wave can be used to simplify this process in my life and help me become more organized in my communication to all these different groups and people. A majority of my communication in ministry is done virtually and I have a tough time keeping up with all the different voices coming at me each day.
I’m a full time pastor in a small town church. Our part time youth minister lives an hour away where he goes to school. When he is in town he spends a large portion of his time with students. It would be incredibly valuable for us to have a way to communicate and discuss ministry plans. Google Wave could be the forum in which we do that. It could be an amazing boost for our productivity that delivers real results in our student ministry.
I’ll rewrite mine cause i was on my iphone with italian automatic corrector (look the ip if you don0t believe me)
the creative way I would use GW is to understand foreign topics such as italian ones, so you can really wave in an open sea by networking with other long distance communities with the same topics/problems and maybe different and new solution
thank you
ciao
elektra
We could use wave to deliver constant updates on events and various matters as they pop up. For instance, we are taking a mission trip to Haiti in 2011. We could turn a wave into a giant trip information source. We could provide constant fund raising updates. We could post as well as Haiti trip facts and tips for people. We could have a section where people post questions about the trip and we answer them. It could be the go to place to get information about the trip so that 1. People who are going would be up to date and 2. People who haven’t sign up yet can get their fears calmed by getting their questions answered and seeing other people’s answered questions.
We are in the process of Website 2.0 redesign of our 6 year old website. We are looking at all the communication and social media options and thought this should be thrown in the mix for evaluation. We may not know much being an 11 year old church plant, but we do know the message needs to be communicated multiple times in many different formats and vehicles.
Oohh let me guess the catholic one hasn’t won. Ooh what a surprise the winners are all american. It ’s a shame you did a contest only to satisfy your ego (which by the way it’s a capital sin) no surprise le the Church is losing fidels and a lot of americans are losing their faith with ministers like that.
Deo Gratia ora pronobis
Elektra:
You’re reading a little too much into things.
Your comments didn’t qualify (like several others) because you didn’t provide a specific answer of how the church could take advantage of Wave. I chose the 15 comments that were the least vague.
Please feel free to enter again, as we may have a similar giveaway in the future.
I don’t know if this is happening to any other winners but I still haven’t received my email from Google with the activation link. Just FYI.
Jeff:
As I mentioned above, Google is very nebulous on their invite form as to when the invites will actually arrive… Here’s the text directly from the form itself:
“Invitations will not be sent immediately. We have a lot of stamps to lick.”
Thanks Eric. I’m just super excited to get to use Google Wave. Christmas is coming early this year
Thanks for the invite!! Now I just have to figure out how to really use this thing. haha