Tuesday, April 24, 2007

ShapeVine


This has some serious potential and I am excited about the possibilities.

The goal of Shapevine is to give missional leaders the opportunity to engage in live learning environments with a wide variety of authors and thought leaders. This will all happen via video cafes, podcasts and live Webinars - and they have already signed on the likes of Reggie McNeil, Carol Davis, Michael Frost, Neil Cole, Brian McLaren, Andrew Jones, Leonard Sweet, Tony & Felicity Dale and others. Very Nice - they are just getting rolling, but you can check it out here.

3 comments:

Joe Cross said...

This is somewhat along the lines of what I've been thinking. Looks really sharp, but let's get rid of the cost and create just one really fun and insightful production that people look at almost daily. (Why in the world do you need to pay $29 to have espresso over the internet anyway? Are they going to ship me some Starbucks?)

Shane Deike said...

i hear ya - i wish it were so as well

Paul Shirer said...

Hey guys, I'm with Shapevine--someone had mentioned that there was some blogging going on about us ... first of all, thanks for visiting the site and appreciate the comments. Just want to let you know that there will be a lot of free content at Shapevine--podcasts, videoblogging, chat, RSS feeds, etc. We're getting closer to launching these and will be announcing it through a newsletter. We'll just be charging for SV Campus courses and seminars, along with the live events with authors. I think the $29 is on the pricey side, as well. We just have to figure our server costs to put on a live show and be able to pay for production. It's not as expensive for us to do the webcasts, where just the author and the host have a camera, so those should be more affordable. We'll see how it goes. In the end, we really want a community to come together and have an open, rich and rewarding dialogue.