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Mars Hill Announces “Community” Networking Service

Published
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Ian Jukes
on August 23, 2008
in Church
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Earlier this week I caught wind of the fact that Mars Hill Church were poised to open up their homegrown social community networking application “The City” as a hosted service for other churches.

Today this news became official with the launch of OnTheCity.org.

Watching the preview video I am astounded by the quality of work the development team at Mars Hill have achieved—again doing something no church has ever done before. At the moment there is no indication how much the service will cost, although given Mars Hill’s often stated vision not to profit from what they do, I can only imagine it will be affordable.

Good job Mars Hill—and thank you!

UPDATE: Adam Wygle, one of the Mars Hill technogeeks, has informed me that this is not a social networking service, but rather a community networking service. The differential here is that the goal of the service is to help churches build real communities who love Jesus, and not a virtual ones.

Why I Love Twitter

Published
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Ian Jukes
on August 8, 2008
in Technology
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Twitter for me has been the most enjoyable of the so called social networking tools that have emerged on the Internet scene in the last few years. Whereas applications like Facebook allow me to keep in contact with people I already know (which has been fantastic), Twitter actually connects me with people I would never have otherwise met.

Over the last few months I have met some great people, whom today I would even consider friends. I have celebrated the births of their children. Shared their music. Discussed politics. Laughed at their jokes. Even prayed for them. And all this without ever seeing their faces.

Strange eh?

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