SED+Technologies+in+Congregations

toc This page is setup in advance of the Technologies in Congregations meeting at UUCG (Greenville, NC) on 17March2012.

Topics We Hope to Hear

 * 1) Blogs, podcasts, YouTube, Facbook, ... what is effective at getting our UU message out to a broader audience?
 * ESPECIALLY: what works in RE and for our Young Adults?
 * 1) How do you congregations afford to meet the requirements for the many users of Technologies in the Meeting space? How do we all balance needs for:
 * High quality sermon audio and flexibility for multiple speakers and music
 * Capturing sermon audio for replay "podcasts" or as audio archives
 * Dealing with the hearing impaired using audio amplification or loop audio systems
 * 1) How to manage the technology requirements for staff and key lay leaders?
 * Provide personal computers or equivalent or support the staff/lay leader owned devices?
 * How to keep member Sensitive Personal Information secure?
 * What to do about demand for wireless networking, while maintain some information security?

Outcomes Going Forward
>> It has positive attributes: flexible, no ads (for non-profits), and no billionaire owners
 * 1) Ongoing communications and fora for exchange of Practices for Technologies in Congregations
 * Is this web site useful to assist as an exchange?
 * 1) An awareness of how pervasive technologies are in expanding awareness and acceptance of our Unitarian Universalist principles
 * Have we gone from technical literacy being an optional to an essential element of our survival as an institution?