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You’ll want this resource. Check it out at… http://www.gmi.org/products/operation-world/operation-world-dvd/ Author Jason Mandryk told us about this at Lausanne III in a special reception on Monday night. One of the CD/DVD developers was there and it sounded as if this would be the resource to beat. It will contain A fully searchable PDF of the Operation [...]

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The objective of this 8-week course is to provide students with an overview and understanding of how secular advertisers market products and ideas using social media. This course examines the ways that ideas can be communicated. Students will post comments on the spiritual applications each week and write a ministry proposal as a final project [...]

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Got graphics? Wish you did? Either way, it’s worth a visit to Create International’s website at… http://www.createthailand.com They’re based in Chiang Mai and are a ministry of YWAM that produces evangelistic, mobilization, and church-planting media resources for unreached peoples. Each summer, they run a School of Cartooning and Animation for Missions to train missionary cartoonists. [...]

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Create International (a YWAM vision in Chiang Mai, Thailand) produces evangelistic, mobilization, and church-planting media resources for unreached peoples. They’re on the web at…. http://www.createthailand.com The School of Cartooning and Animation for Missions is a school designed to train missionary cartoonists. It’ll take place again in 2011.

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Here it is, quite possibly the best free software to resize your digital pictures, for example, to web-appropriate size. Let’s face it: Maybe 80% of the public are getting this wrong. Cameras keep offering more and more megapixels because the public has come to equate higher megapixel counts with higher quality (not always the case, [...]

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I’ve tried using TokBox http://www.tokbox.com I like Tokbox. It’s kinda like the classical “BradyBunch” view of participants (“Hollywood Squares” sort of). It’s medium inexpensive. To do a simulcast video conference. Once I get to 6 or 7 participants, seems like it’s already maxing out. There’s some latency, some dropped connections, etc. But it’s still the [...]

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“Yai Wanonabalewa (The Enemy God)” has to be one of the most unique movies ever produced… and it’s now been released on DVD. Originally conceived of by 2 Yanomamo leaders some 15 years ago, it is a dramatic feature (not a documentary). Yet – nearly every scene is based on actual historical events. Because the [...]

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We evidently weren’t the only one trying to figure out how to save YouTube videos for offline use. An anonymous user wrote this past week, thanking us, and also pointing us to four great Jesus videos worthy of downloading offline: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZUTt8XINPY&feature=related (Revelation Song – Kari Jobe) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbx8ua1B1p4&feature=related (Revelation Song – Phillips,Craig,&Dean) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzqTFNfeDnE&feature=related (That’s My King [...]

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Lately, our staff here has been exploring the use of so-called “print-on-demand” publishers. We identified one in a previous item on Feb. 7 at… http://www.brigada.org/2010/02/07_4012 And our good friends at Innovation In Mission delved even further into Snowfall on Feb. 17th at… http://innovationinmission.blogspot.com/2010/02/highlighting-innovation-in-print-on.html (Note: This URL will ‘wrap.’ If you have trouble reassembling it, just [...]

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Have you ever stopped by at… http://www.globalrecordings.net They’ve queued up *thousands* of free language resources to give away there — for *you*. If you’re working somewhere among a foreign language, odds are, they already have your group. Use the search box … or the categories… either way, it’s easy.

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How many of us have made videos from our mission trips? (Hands raise all over the room.) How many of us, while on a mission trip, have been bumped from a flight? (Almost as many hands go up.) How many of us have witnessed those flights (that bumped us) going down and killing every passenger [...]

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Media, Communications, and IT experts, as well as linguists, translators, and ethnomusicologists, will meet near Frankfurt, Germany 21 September to 01 October, 2010, for the Eurasia Media and Distribution Consultation. For information contact

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This is a set of multiple-user online tools to produce a small video project for each of the 490 minority language groups in China that will introduce them to God as their loving Heavenly Father with indigenous pictures, indigenous music and voice — over of 55 scriptures. The organizers invite you to participate. They’re looking [...]

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