This past weekend I say the Mason & Ramsey Comedy Expedition and laughed myself silly. This comedy show is a family friendly Christian based comedy show that I was actually able to laugh at. But, that's not what caught my attention with relation to technology and the church. After seeing the show and poking about their website I saw an example of crossing between people and a bunch of different technologies to bring comedy to us.
Compassion
The first thing that caught my attention was during the tie in with Compassion International. The comedians didn't just take the time to talk about Compassion International. They showed a 5 minute video from one of the places compassion is setup where they had gone to visit. Using video in a relational way (we related to them and they related to the kids Compassion is helping) to show something to the audience. This was a great way to use video effectively.
Bananas Comedy
The big tie in came with Bananas Comedy, one of the sponsors of the show. I started at their, drupal based, website where I first saw promotional video about their 4 DVD releases. But, they don't just have their video clips on their site. They, also, have video in YouTube and GodTube.
Then, I notice the link in the menu for Bananas on TV. Part of me is tired of dirty comedy and yearns to laugh at something that isn't based on sex or tearing into people. I discovered that seeing these comedians on TV will have to wait until September 2008. But, this is yet another tie in with technology around fun (something Christians have a reputation of having far to little of).
What I see in this site and in the show is a tie in between technologies in different areas and people. There is television technology, audio and video to share the comedians, a website to connect people to the comedy (there are even contact and signup forms for them), live personal video to share the message of compassion, and it all relates back to people.
When you go to work on a project to do you look for all the technology and people tie ins that you can?
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