by Scott Hofert on 06/23/2010
I find myself struggling to find professional conferences that really seem to meet the needs of leaders in the church. I have been to dozens of conferences all over the world and rarely come away with tangible ideas and challenges that translate to a Monday morning. I went to Story last year in Chicago and heard some great innovators and thinkers…many of whom are not in church leadership. This year Story has an amazing line-up of real-world thinkers that are far outside the bounds of the Church. This is good for those of us who might find ourselves buried in church minutia.
I’m planning on being at Story this September 23-24 interviewing one of the greatest thinkers in film and screenwriting, Richard Walter (distinguished professor from UCLA). I had the opportunity to visit Richard Walter, with some of my colleagues Tim Abare and Chuck Allen, about 18 months ago at UCLA. Richard talked with such depth and understanding about faith and Jesus while not claiming to be a follower of Jesus.
Love to see you in September at Story.
by Scott Hofert on 02/12/2010
Each month I receive a few different magazines that are deeply valuable to my ongoing learning and discovery about culture and technology. As many of you know, my ongoing pursuit of a paperless existence struggles with this antiquated nature of weighty magazines in my bag. Until I’m able to own the iPad, there must be others ways in which I can view these paper behemoths without the paper.
A couple of years ago I came across Zinio. Zinio is a digital reader for my Mac that allows me not only to view magazines and journals online, but also gives me hyperlinks within the articles and advertisements themselves. This allows a seamless interaction between both the article and the numerous web resources.
Go to Zinio and look for your favorite read. Also, there is an iPhone app that just came online. I haven’t had much of a chance to play with Zinio on my phone yet, but deeply appreciate the ability to have my favorite magazines in my pocket at all times.
Looking forward to seeing how this pans out for the iPad.
I would love to hear your experiences with digital magazine readers.
