The Wired Church 2.0 [Paperback]

Len Wilson (Author), Jason Moore (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 2008

Wired Church 2.0 is the go-to guide for church staff and volunteers coordinating multimedia digital technology for worship, the classroom, and marketing. Covering everything from website design and trends in digital media to selecting and training your media team.

Wilson and Moore were on the leading edge of media ministry with their 1999 volume The Wired Church: Making Media Ministry. Wired Church 2.0 is the guidebook for a new generation of technology, addressing new multimedia trends, including blogs, podcasts, streaming video, and more. Wired Church 2.0 is a comprehensive how-to book written in an easy-to-understand "dummies' guide" style. Church media coordinators will learn about the technology, costs, methods, and tricks-of-the-trade for producing high-quality web and video elements for worship, education, and marketing.

Len Wilson and Jason Moore run Midnight Oil Productions, a cutting-edge media ministry agency based in Grand Prairie, Texas. They have authored several books together, including Design Matters: Creating Powerful Imagery for Worship (2006), Digital Storytellers: The Art of Communicating the Gospel in Worship (2002) and The Wired Church: Making Media Ministry (1999), all from Abingdon Press.

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About the Author

Len Wilson runs Midnight Oil Productions and is a formerly a co-founder and a media director at Lumicon, which produces digital worship media for churches. He earned an undergraduate degree in communications from McMurray University, pursued graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and earned the M.A. in Religious Communication from United Theological Seminary in Ohio.

Len Wilson and Jason Moore have co-authored several books, including Design Matters: Creating Powerful Imagery for Worship (Abingdon Press, 2006), Digital Storytellers: The Art of Communicating the Gospel in Worship (Abingdon, 2002) and The Wired Church: Making Media Ministry (Abingdon, 1999). They have been featured in several articles for publications including Clergy Journal, The Ooze, Homiletics, Next Wave, Rev., Technologies for Worship, Wired, Worship Matters, Your Church, Church and Worship Technology, and various newspapers around North America. Their digital productions from Ginghamsburg and Lumicon have received several Telly Awards for excellence in video production.

Jason Moore runs Midnight Oil Productions and is formerly a co-founder of Lumicon Digital Productions in Dallas, Texas. He has previously worked as a graphic and animation artist at the Ginghamsburg United Methodist Church in Ohio.

Len Wilson and Jason Moore have co-authored several books, including Design Matters: Creating Powerful Imagery for Worship (Abingdon Press, 2006), Digital Storytellers: The Art of Communicating the Gospel in Worship (Abingdon, 2002) and The Wired Church: Making Media Ministry (Abingdon, 1999). They have been featured in several articles for publications including Clergy Journal, The Ooze, Homiletics, Next Wave, Rev., Technologies for Worship, Wired, Worship Matters, Your Church, Church and Worship Technology, and various newspapers around North America. Their digital productions from Ginghamsburg and Lumicon have received several Telly Awards for excellence in video production.

Product Details

• Paperback: 169 pages
• Publisher: Abingdon Press (August 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0687648998
• ISBN-13: 978-0687648993
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #702,334 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Must Read for All Church Leaders, July 24, 2008

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G. Stevens Shourds (Brookville, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Wired Church 2.0 (Paperback)

Wired is a must read! Certainly for those involved in or interested in doing media ministry, but this book isn't just about media ministry. It's about ministry in general in the 21st Century. Len gives an excellent overview of the entire concept of ministering in this digital age, regardless of whether we are digital gurus, anti-media luddites or somewhere in between. His discussion in team development is invaluable for any kind of ministry team, not just media ministry. And as always the technical section is filled with excellent material and great ideas.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Have for any Media Ministry, October 7, 2008

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Computer Geek (Kokomo, IN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Wired Church 2.0 (Paperback)

The book starts out to be a little academic but quickly gets into very practical advice.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not what I expected, September 18, 2008

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W. Matthews (Strongstown, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Wired Church 2.0 (Paperback)

The book is seperated into four parts:
1. Developing a mission for media.
2. Designing meaningful media for worship.
3. Building a championship crew.
4. Mastering the technology.

Each part describes the way and reason why of doing things in media ministry.

The book's main focus is using technology for the worship service. This is not what I was hoping for. I was looking for ways to utilize techology for our small, rural church in general. The book focused more on how to start using a projector/video for worship services in a large church setting. To get started, according to the book, would cost around $15,000 to use technology for worship.

The book really didn't seem to be very helpful for the complete beginner. It was wrote on a "higher education" level. It almost seems to me that the author was writing this book to be used in a classroom setting. In other words, more theory than practicality. There were however, some good points.

Overall though, this is one book the beginner can skip.