Easter weekend is always a big weekend as a church staff member. For the past 13 years I have been involved heavily in some way with a ministry area on Easter, but nothing like what I am going to experience this weekend. This weekend we are launching the LifeChurch.tv Second Life Island known as Experience Island.

Frankly we have no idea what to expect. The buzz has been growing, and people from all over the world are finding us. The most exciting thing to me is the people that I have been able to connect with in SL that would never darken the doors of a church in RL (real life). Take an hour and join us this weekend.

LifeChurch.tv Second Life
Sunday
8:00am, 9:30am and 11:00am (Second Life Time…aka PDT)

For those of you who do not yet understand time zones…..
10:00am, 11:30am and 1:00pm (Chicago Time)

Hope you are able to join us in SL. If you are tied up on Sunday, but might be able to try it out on Saturday….then read Swerve here. Have a great Easter weekend!

Jeska Linden announced yesterday on the Official Linden Blog that the beta voice feature in Second Life is open for use. Download details here.

I have not had a chance to use the beta tool let, but I am very excited about this. Talking via typing on a keyboard is not a very easy way to communicate in real time. I am confident that adding the voice feature with greatly enhance the experience and be one more step towards a fully immersive experience. The opportunities for how God can use this are limitless. In just the few short weeks that we have had Experience Island I personally have had many conversations with people far from God. I am now more exited about our full launch of LifeChurch.tv Second Life coming April 8th.

Let me know if you have tried out the voice beta… Love to know what you think.

Why Second Life you ask… check this post out from Bobby.

I popped into Experience Island tonight to chat with some folks and see how the Island is coming. Casey, a staff member on the LifeChurch.tv team has taken on most of the extra development for our Island. Casey is doing an amazing job with our island, and there were a few surprises for me tonight.

First, here is our outdoor viewing area. Casey and I talked about this for a while, but this is much more that I ever expected! Looks like a great place to hold an outdoor concert. Maybe have a band on the roof, and have the video feed on the screens???? Second, is our MixTape series. MixTape is a series that kicks off April 8th, Easter Weekend. In Second Life we have MixTape invite cards that we are handing them out to everyone and encouraging them to check out the new series…in Second Life. Check out the invite card. Finally, the real surprise. The red box….What is the red box? Well, I am not going to tell you…go to Experience Island and find out for yourself.

Steve Rubel is one of my favorite bloggers! I love his vision, his perspective and his lens on things. Steve recently spoke at the AJAXWorld conference and had some very interesting points. (This is a conference that I would of loved to attend!)

“As this happens en masse, the page view as a model will cease to exist,” Rubel declared. “I’m giving it three years.” -Steve Rubel

“Widgets in media represent a fundamental shift and a massive shift,” Rubel said. “People now measure success not by how many people are on the site but by how many people interact with the content no matter where it lives.”

That’s what Rubel’s me2revolution is all about: the massive expansion, not just of participation, but of content that is redistributed and repurposed at will across the Internet.

Read the entire article from InternetNews.

So why is this important to me? To LifeChurch.tv? Why should you pay attention to this? For me one simple statement…I just want the people to interact with our content. I frankly don’t care where that is!

How about you?

Got sweet web design skills? Bowstaff and tradition computer hacking skills are also a plus if you want to join up with the LifeChurch.tv digerati team.

I am in need of a GREAT web designer that wants to impact the world one project at a time. Here is a little about it….

Must have:
- Excellent design skills
- Strong portfolio of past work
- Both interaction and visual design skills
- Needs to be able to prototype in XHTML/CSS/JS and adhering to W3C standards
- Ability to focus on user needs and optimum user experience

Nice to have:
- Flash skills
- Flash, Windows, or Quicktime video skills
- Experience with PHP, MySQL and PostgreSQL programming
- Excellent problem solving skills

To learn more about the job, and throw your name in the proverbial hat check out the job listing at LifeChurch.tv Jobs.