Schedule of Events
IMC 2008 begins on Monday evening, October 20, and continues through Thursday the 23rd. Lunch, dinner, and snacks are all included as part of the conference. Below is a schedule of workshops and events. As the conference approaches, we'll be filling out the schedule with updated information, so check back regularly.
Check out our Sessions and Speakers By Track:
Keynote Speakers | Devotional Speakers | Internet Evangelism | Internet Discipleship |
Internet Marketing / Strategy | Internet Design / Technology
Monday October 20
Agathon Group's Bootcamp mini-conference runs from 10:00am - 4:00pm.
Note: Separate registration is required to attend.
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Note: Separate registration is required to attend.
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Room Time Speaker Session / Event Track
Lobby 4:00 Check-In
Great Hall 6:30 Dinner
Tuesday, October 21
Agathon Group's Bootcamp mini-conference runs from 8:00am - 10:15am.
Sessions are in Hickory East / West and the President's Dining Room
Note: Separate registration is required to attend.
Click here for more info.
Sessions are in Hickory East / West and the President's Dining Room
Note: Separate registration is required to attend.
Click here for more info.
Room Time Speaker Session / Event Track
Lobby 8:00 Check-In
Willow 8:30 Quentin Schultze Worship/Devotional Session
Board Room 9:00 Rusty Wright Communicating Christ Effectively to Secular Audiences Internet Evangelism
Learn how non-Christians think and feel, what they want and why. Discover practical tools for analyzing your audience, including their religious persuasion, intellectual level, psychological makeup, needs, moral attitudes, issues and heroes. Tap web surfers’ felt needs, grab attention, touch hearts and minds, and sensitively communicate spiritual truth. Useful ideas to help Christian Internet communicators connect with secular audiences and nudge them toward faith.
Hall Of Sponsors 10:15 Snack Break
Get a well-rounded lesson in marketing your ministry on the Internet.
Board Room 10:45 Dave Hackett Innovate and collaborate to set your Web/Mobile Evangelism Ministry on a growth curve Internet Evangelism
Networking Specialist Dave Hackett discusses how you can use the power of collaboration to augment your Internet/mobile evangelism ministry, and introduces the IEC Resource Exchange. The time will feature a collaborative lab where participants can indicate (and seek) expertise in key skill areas relevant for Internet evangelism.
Hickory 10:45 Howard Brown Using Web 2.0 to drive proven member growth strategies Strategy/Marketing
Technology
Technology
Recent research has enlightened strategies that better equip churches to grow membership, faith and funds. We will discuss how new social networking, connectivity and networking solutions offer churches opportunities to implement many of these growth strategies. As well, we will discuss the challenges of today's open, individual-driven, social networks and how churches can still maintain their brand, protect privacy and control content.Â
Lunch 12:30
How to create an Internet ministry based on your calling and not what other ministries are doing.
An eye opener on how to utilize the power of Television and the Internet to reach the unreached Muslims and draw them to participate, interact and pray.
There are two discernible ways to use Flash: heavy on design or heavy on development. Paul will be teaching tricks and techniques from a heavier visual perspective with a few programming tricks to make life easier. This course is designed for the intermediate user.
Hall Of Sponsors 3:15 Snack Break
Willow 3:45 Bill Oechsler Offline/Online Realities Create New Brand Opportunities Strategy / Marketing
According to a very recent survey, almost half the brands spending money and resources on search marketing fail to connect those campaigns to their offline marketing efforts. Most common reasons cited include lack of budget, scarce human resources, or simply a failure to consider integration. It is this last point that we will focus on in this session.
Effective branding of your ministry requires a high degree of intentionality because each and every time your audience comes in contact with your brand, you have an opportunity to make a positive, negative, or unrealized impression. Of the three, it is the unrealized impression that is the worst. Positive impressions are great and negatives can be turned around but unrealized impressions generally occur because of a failure to consider just what impression the brand is making.
Understanding branding is, everything matters. So join us as we explore ways to increase your ministry’s influence and impact through the intentional integration of online and offline marketing communications.
Board Room 3:45 Johnnie Gnanamanickam Conversation to Conversion: Using Social Networks and Forums to Point People to Christ Internet Evangelism
The ability to connect with people online and share content through social networking/media websites is set to change life as we knew it (if it hasn’t already), just like email and the Internet. It has all the makings of something God always intended, and that He wants to use to facilitate the earth being filled with the knowledge of the Lord, even as He connects the dots through you and me.
Discover how you can use these tools today and how you can prepare for what’s coming tomorrow.
Bring your web address and your safety helmet, then sit back for a no-holds barred critique of your Web site. What are you doing well? What doesn't work? How can you fix it? (Warning: This workshop is not for the thin-skinned or faint-of-heart.)
Great Hall 6:30 Dinner
Dr. Bourgeois has spent the past two years researching how the Internet is being used to reach the world for Christ. Using a combination of surveys and in-depth case studies, he has developed a set of best practices that Christian organizations have used effectively for online ministry.
Wednesday, October 22
Room Time Speaker Session / Event Track
Lobby 8:00 Check-In
Willow 8:30 Doug Swink Worship/Devotional Session
All Christian websites fall victim at some time. In our rush to minister on the web, we make common and avoidable mistakes that undermine our message and our impact. We'll list the biggies and talk about how to rise above them. "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Learn all the ins and outs of effectively marketing your Internet ministry and reaching more people.
Board Room 9:00 Eric Celerier Learn by Testing: Perfecting an Online Evangelism Strategy Internet Evangelism
'Thinking about a redesign? Â Learn the steps to make your next redesign a smashing success instead of a frustrating failure. Â You'll learn the reasons why (and why not) a redesign makes sense, how to create a blueprint for your new site, tips for workflow and scheduling and things to avoid so you don't anger search engines. Â For both large and small websites.
Hall Of Sponsors 10:15 Snack Break
Learn lessons in not sucking when it comes to your online communication and marketing.
Board Room 10:45 Drew Dickens The convergence of Media for effective Internet Evangelism Internet Evangelism
Developing leaders is a priority for every church or Christian organization that takes it’s calling seriously. Emerging technology provides new ways to find, train, encourage and walk alongside leaders to provide care, direction, and vision.  It also allows leaders to connect and support each other while giving instant feedback that can allow senior leaders to make important adjustments.
Great Hall 12:30 Lunch
Hickory 3:45 Tiffani Barnes Best Foot Forward The Importance of Marketing, Branding, and Design in effectively reaching the culture. Strategy / Marketing
Marketing, branding and design are an important part of getting our message heard by those that need it. Today's culture is accustomed to professional quality design and multi-million dollar marketing campaigns. So how do you cut through the noise and get your message seen and heard? In this session we will discuss:
What are marketing and branding and why are they important Design ideas and trends today Practical marketing strategies for reaching people Resources to help you achieve your marketing, branding and design objectives on a budget.
Board Room 2:00 Craig von Buseck NetCasters: Web 2.0 and Internet Evangelism in 2008 Internet Evangelism
As media continues to converge on the Internet the NetCaster has a growing list of media options to choose from to connect with people online. What are some of the current effective methods and models of Internet evangelism? What is on the horizon for Web outreach? What ministry strategy can you pursue to make your Internet evangelism outreach as effective as possible? Learn about current effective methods and growing trends in Internet evangelism that will help you to cast the net on The Net.
Blue Spruce/Elm 2:00 Gospel.com Staff Gospel.com Transition Gospel.com Member Specific
Hall Of Sponsors 3:15 Snack Break
Learn how to identify the personality of your organization and what it means for your online communication and marketing.
Board Room 3:45 John Sorensen Designing Internet Evangelism for a Postmodern Generation Internet Evangelism
Great Hall 6:30 Dinner
Great Hall 7:30 Robby Richardson Where Do We Go From Here? Keynote
Thursday, October 23
Room Time Speaker Session / Event Track
Willow 8:30 Steven Koster Worship/Devotional Session
Important principles, tips and strategy to consider as you plan your ministry's upcoming e-strategy.
Board Room 9:00 Dr. David Nolent Glocal Internet Evangelism: Thinking Global and Local Internet Evangelism
Strategies to accelerate Internet worlwide evangelism while partnering with local churches.
Hall Of Sponsors 10:15 Snack Break
Bring your web address and your safety helmet, then sit back for a no-holds barred critique of your Web site. What are you doing well? What doesn't work? How can you fix it? (Warning: This workshop is not for the thin-skinned or faint-of-heart.)
Blue Spruce/Elm 10:45 Brian Tol The New Cold War: Free Tools to improve your ministry Web Design / Technology
The Internet giants are in a new arms race, and you're the winner -- if you know where to look. Over the past three years, Google, Yahoo and Amazon have opened up their huge databases to developers, and released some incredibly useful (and free) tools into the wild. In this session, Brian will guide you through this new cold war, and share how this benefits your ministry. Some of the topics we'll cover include: Google's App Engine and OpenSocial, Amazon Web Services, and Yahoo APIs & Javascript libraries.
