wfn.org | Matt Carlisle to lead RCC 2010 Workshop on Web Ministry 3.0

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Matt Carlisle, Chief Experience Officer and Founder, Big Heart Design

> RCCongress 2010 Workshop:
Web Ministry 3.0: A view of emerging tools and applications

Matt Carlisle is the founder of Big Heart Design, a user-centered 
design company located in Nashville, Tennessee.
Big Heart Design partners with nonprofit organizations to help bring 
to life web sites and online applications focused on education, 
advocacy, benevolence, the arts, healthcare and spirituality. Big 
Heart empowers your ideas to ultimately make the world a better place for all.
Matt Carlisle is a 15-year veteran of nonprofit web development. As 
the former director of web ministry at United Methodist 
Communications, Carlisle spent five years as the executive designer, 
producer and editor of UMC.org, the official web site of The United 
Methodist Church. During that time, Carlisle instituted the use of 
cutting edge web applications, and directed the development and 
establishment of a United Methodist design system.
Before joining United Methodist Communications in 2002, Carlisle was 
the associate director of communications for the Indiana Area of The 
United Methodist Church. He served as communications coordinator for 
Bethany Lutheran Church in Denver, Colorado. Additionally, Carlisle 
directed young adult ministry programming for Denver's historic 
Trinity United Methodist Church.
Web Ministry 3.0: A view of emerging tools and applications

Just when you were getting used to Web 2.0 and its meaning, the Web 
3.0 whispering has begun. Web 2.0 and 3.0 are simply terms used to 
describe the future of the World Wide Web. Views on Internet 
evolution vary greatly, but many believe that emerging technologies 
such as the Semantic Web will transform the way the Web is used, and 
lead to new possibilities in artificial intelligence. If the next 
iteration (Web 3.0) will make it possible for web technology to 
understand and meet the requests of people, then people of faith will 
face many new theological questions.
Web Ministry 3.0: A view of emerging tools and applications will be a 
highly experiential workshop that looks at where the next iteration 
of the Internet is headed. The workshop leader will highlight a 
number of emerging Web-based applications and then lead an open 
dialogue focused on the impact of these emerging technologies, their 
theological underpinnings and how church communicators should use 
them effectively, if at all.
" Matt Carlisle is one of the few people I know who not only has high 
ideals for what the web can do for his clients, but can turn those 
ideals into to practical, measurable web projects. His ideas 
represent what the web is meant to be. "
~ Steve Downey,

Director of Web Development, General Board of Discipleship of The 
United Methodist Church
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