When I was the director of communications for Lausanne II in Manila, we didn’t have any problems with wireless internet connections or with broadband connections for instant delivery of video. No, widespread use of the Internet was merely a gleam in Al Gore’s mind back then. But today, at Cape Town 2010, many people and…
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Nothing is easy. We’re now halfway through the Congress, and still difficulties rear their ugly heads to keep me in the edit room until 11 or 12 at night. Today it was some software glitch keeping us from ingesting XD footage from a Sony EX3… and 90% of my stuff for that piece was coming…
My first story has just been uploaded and is ready to be downloaded from our ftp site to stations and networks across the country and around the world. (woo hoo!) For those of you who want to see it, but don’t have the ftp access, you can simply click here. DISCLAIMER: This is not my…
Praise God! The opening session took place Sunday night with much celebration and fanfare. It was glorious to stand in the room watching the thousands of participants from 197 nations at that amazing moment in church history. And yes, I got my first piece done… arrgh… such frustration. Two days to do a 3 minute…
Well, there’s good news and bad news from Cape Town… Bad news first: my first piece isn’t online yet. As a matter of fact, its not even edited yet. But the good news is that I have all day tomorrow (Sunday) to get it done, and an editor is ready for me at 9am. …
Our workspace isn’t ready yet, and the crews are still getting their gear together… but we’ve already begun creating stories for broadcast! I’m finishing up the script for a piece that explains the historical connection of this Congress with the previous two and with events 100 and 200 years ago – and still making it…
After 24 hours of air travel (thanks Delta for the upgrade!) I’ve finally arrived in one of the most beautiful cities in the world – Cape Town, South Africa. I’m here working (as a volunteer) on the broadcast media team, creating stories that capture the spirit and experience of this landmark Congress, and releasing them…
According to my Delta SkyMiles account, that’s how many miles I’ve flown in the past 30 days. (That’s almost twice the distance around the earth.) Oh, and I flew yesterday on Frontier, and I drove from Michigan to Seattle, so you can add a few thousand more miles onto that total. That’s a lot of…
Yesterday a pastor and his wife made total fools out of themselves on a flight that I was on from Amsterdam to Nairobi. They were demanding different seats and when their rant didn’t seem to have much impact he topped it by declaring to the Purser: “I’m a Christian pastor about to lead a week-long…
Como descubrimos en la clase, a veces la tecnología no funciona de la manera que usted quisiera que! Por alguna razón desconocida, WordPress no es lo que me permite subir archivos de los medios de comunicación a esta entrada. Por lo tanto, si a usted le gusta ninguna de las limosnas o nuestras notas de…
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