YouVersion Live Webinar Wed, Sept 23 at 2-3 PM CDT

This October, YouVersion Live will give you a brand new way to interact with live events like church services, conferences, and more. Want to know how you’ll be able to use it?

Join us for a live webinar: Wednesday, September 23 at 2:00-3:00 PM CDT at http://www.youversion.com/live
LifeChurch.tv Pastor, Innovation Leader Bobby Gruenewald and Digerati Pastor Terry Storch will guide you through YouVersion Live and show you how this free new tool can work in your environment.

  • What will it look like to use this in a church service or other live experience?
  • As a communicator, how can I use it to help people get more out of my message?
  • How will people find a live experience?
  • What will it take to set up an experience ahead of time?
  • How likely is it that people around me will be able to use it?

Get answers to these questions and have a chance to ask your own during this free webinar. To join us, just go to http://www.youversion.com/live on Wednesday, September 23 at 2:00 CDT.

Hope to see you there!

New Android Update for YouVersion

YouVersion Bible users on Android will be pleased to know a new update has gone live in the Android marketplace. This updates is all bug fixes and should continue to help you have a great experience engaging the Bible on your Android device.

Simply head to http://youversion.com/download on your Android device and you will be directed to the Android Marketplace and the update.

YouVersion iPhone Bible Update Sumitted!

Yes it is true! Last week we did submit an update to Apple Store for the YouVersion Bible app for iPhone. We are excited for Apple to release this update as it has many bug fixes and some new integration that will allow you to share scripture through Twitter.

We are also in heavy development on another update for the YouVersion iPhone Bible app that will add YouVersion.com/Live integration. You can be looking for that to be coming down the pipe sometime in October.

(For more information about YouVersion.com/Live go to the site and sign up for our Webinar that will give a walk through of the features and have examples of how it can be used.)

Introducing YouVersion Live

We’re thrilled to introduce a brand new concept for YouVersion.com. It’s called “YouVersion Live” and it brings a new level of interaction to the communication of God’s truth and love.

YouVersion Live is a free service that will give pastors, conference speakers, teachers, and group leaders the ability to share content and real-time feedback on mobile devices during live events, services, and more. Here’s an idea of how a church leader could use YouVersion Live…

A pastor would love to be able to get his congregation more involved in his message, ask questions and get answers, survey the room with a simple poll, give them an easy and natural way to take notes on his talking points, and maybe even give them a follow-up thought with a blog post or YouTube video as they’re leaving. And, in a perfect world, they’d be able to keep all that information in a place they look every day so they can refresh themselves on what he spoke about.

When YouVersion Live launches, this pastor will be able to do all this (and a little more) by simply dragging and dropping in a super-simple dashboard on YouVersion.com. During a service, his congregation will pull out their web-enabled phones, open up YouVersion (either on the mobile website or a native application), read the Bible, take notes, ask questions, submit prayer requests, answer polls, find links to external content (event details, blog posts, videos, etc), and give online. Before they leave, they’ll be able to send all that great content to themselves (or a friend) via email for future reference.

With YouVersion Live, a pastor can offer his congregation a rich and engaging way to experience the Bible and his message. Plus, with millions of people already using YouVersion on their phones, he’s got a head start towards telling his congregation about this new tool.

We’ll be talking more about YouVersion Live over the next several weeks, so stay tuned for more information and announcements!

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