i am doing my first 'out of church' crowd speaking event since i left my work at tennessee state univ. i've put myself into the mix for speaking at podcamp nashville. i'll be speaking about spirituality in social media. here's my little write up

hey, the name is gavin & i am career youth pastor with a twist
of technological participant anthropologist. i imagine our time
together to be an exploration of how people have been (and are able) to
find & express faith through the social media spectrum. from
blogging, to storytelling, podcasting, daily prayers, second life,
& of course twitter.

if we get there (that 25 min limit you never know) we will look at
how the established faith systems have been largely slow to respond.
from static content websites to twitter the faith systems are trying it
out, but is it the right way? what is ministry in a technological age?

follow up will probably happen at my blog.
http://www.gavoweb.com

i'll be reframing some of my usual talks in that i will be assuming my audience is more tech savy and does not need all the translation that i normally put into a tech presentation (which can become the whole presentation depending on the crowd).