Toby Beresford

@tobyberesford
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Digital Bible Mission catalyst @biblesociety gamification thinker #infinitegamification metaverse innovator @portalry, first leaderboarder @leaderboarded
Mastodon listed as European social media alternative
Nice one @mikebutcher
Grieftech has a new level of fidelity in the form of AI avatars but even a photograph is primitive grieftech - providing an external memory of a loved one even after they have left. But doesn't even this stunt the grieving process of leaving behind and moving on?
Cost of brexit crisis having its impact on British politics
Unveiling creativity: See how Mark's Gospel is reimagined in Roblox and other digital platforms. Empowering youth to illustrate the Bible in their own digital world. #DigitalArt #BibleTransformers https://buff.ly/3vtFuk8
Unlocking Digital Bible Mission to Digital Culture with Digital Tribes and Nations - EMDC Blog

There is a lot more to someone’s sense of identity than language and location. Last year I met a ten-year-old whose eyes lit up when she realised she could make the Bible her own. She is a metaverse native and she was reached with digital Bible Mission – a missional approach where Bible and digital… Read More »Unlocking Digital Bible Mission to Digital Culture with Digital Tribes and Nations

EMDC Blog
Meta using the fediverse is good not bad news @Techmeme to go mainstream, all new tech requires mainstream adoption. Only issue is whether timing is a bit early. ActivityPub still seems a bit immature to me. https://www.techmeme.com/230620/p9#a230620p9
The Anti-Meta Fedi Pact, circulated on Mastodon, pledges to block Meta's planned ActivityPub service, a petty and insular move that will keep Mastodon small

By John Gruber / Daring Fireball. View the full context on Techmeme.

Techmeme
"Robomorphise" - the opposite of "anthropomorphise" - when, rather than attribute human traits to machines and animals, we attribute machine traits to humans as used by Beth Singler during Gone Digital conference.

The only feature that matters for any social media experience is the people who are on it. I'm amazed at how many technology leaders forget this and get distracted by the underlying tech, protocols, features, etc.

Elon is a great example. He thinks he bought a platform. But what he really bought was a community. And of the two, the community has degraded far more than the platform.

Cream tea, coronation, friends, carrot 🥕 cake 🍰…. And two BT engineers choosing today to work on the church wifi! 🤣
Smaller social circles is one way to increase happiness on social media - my latest piece for Mediacat - https://mediacatmagazine.co.uk/how-can-we-be-happier-on-social-media/
How can we be happier on social media? - MediaCat

Bible Society's Toby Beresford on how we're happier in small groups

MediaCat

Lovely commentary on Isaiah 61 video with visual cues from Bible Project https://bibleproject.com/explore/video/isaiah-61/?utm_source=web_social_share&medium=shared_video.

Nice to see it in vertical video so optimised for mobile.

Isaiah 61

Isaiah 61 describes a new creation filled with joy and abundance. But for God to set everything right, he must first reverse everything that's wrong.

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