Protestant churches across the nation are using various forms of emerging technology to influence people’s lives and enliven their church experience. But the pace of technology adoption seems to have slowed in the past two years as some churches focus upon making the most of what they already have, and other churches attempt to get by without incorporating such tools into their ministry mix.
It seems to me that the types of technology used in churches will change as the Web 2.0 tools become more incorporated into the mainstream. Moreover, as traditional broadcast media models – large screens, etc., become more natively mixed in with the Web 2.0 applications, I think we will see more blogs, more podcasts, etc. The Web 2.0 stuff doesn’t have nearly the expense or hardware overhead, which suggests to me that the stagnation of the more broadcast-oriented media puts it at near-saturation in the market.
Other thoughts?