Overview
On September 29, 2021 the Media to Movements Training Coalition hosted the “Top of Funnel” gathering to bring together those focused on marketing campaigns for Media to Movements Strategies. 15 participants had the chance to introduce themselves and offer their resources. Adam G shared about cyber security and shared tips and practices to upgrade security protocols.
Media to Movements is the strategic use of digital media that identifies people on a spiritual journey to Christ and connects them with local disciple makers, equipping them to reach their family and friends with the gospel.
Sample Presenter Notes on Security
- Biblical Security, Nehemiah 4: 9-23
- Protecting your valuables, routes of cyber-attack, developing good security hygiene
- Know what hackers want can help you anticipate how hackers might attack you. This can help you distinguish the values of different types of data and what requires the greatest care when it comes to security.
- There are physical and digital routes of attack in cyber security. Among the physical attacks are people in your organization, building and hardware while digital routes include services, website/portals and software & apps.
- Best practices in developing a good security hygiene for logging in, for email, when browsing, for hardware and software, for storing and sharing.
Resources Shared by Participants
- Faith Tech
- Create Middle East
- Create Mobile
- Siskey Productions
- Sandra Lynn
- Indopartners
- JLM
- MII Reports
- VSN Wiki
- Global Creatives Collective
- Kavanah Media
Participants Presenter Notes
- Clyde Taber (co-host), Southern California, USA | Visual Story Network, Mission Media University, Mobile Ministry Forum
- Allyson Baldwin (co-host), Massachusetts, USA | Create International
- Adam G, Chicago | FaithTech, helping find other Christians working in technology and giving them opportunity to use their skills in ministry. Also doing research around emerging technologies.
- Amanda | Eastwest Ministries International, marketing specialist on the digital strategies team
- Andrew Cardy | video production and web design with our company
- Carol and Calvin, Thailand | founders and international coordinators of Create International making gospel films for unreached people groups.
- Hannah Mae Panot, Philippines| Visual Story Network, Project Ablaze
- James, Nepal | GC Ministries
- Joe, Create Middle East | our focus is geographic (MENA), and we do a lot of work in Arabic. We are primarily media producers but are connected to several ministries/teams doing MTM, helping from a technical, strategy, and media
- Kurt, US | we are reaching the unreached people of Indonesia. We have been using M2M for years and are always looking to learn more. We have hundreds of videos and articles we are translating that we hope can be used by others to reach cousins.
- Randy Valentine, Colorado | Media Impact International, social media outreach program to reach people of peace and covering follow-up.
- Sekhar Gurram, South India | Senior pastor, Founder and Director of Jesus Loves Ministries and Bethany Bible Institute.
- Sandra, North Carolina | digital marketing and communications for many years looking to connect more with BAM work using digital conversations
- Tom, GC Ministries, Nepal, | Pioneers