Braden Young

Hi, Braden! Thanks for posting this. I love the phrase in the article that VR can be an “empathy machine.” It fits so well with what I was trying to say about using VR to break down barriers around the church. This paragraph was particularly meaningful to me:
“to show supporters exactly what an eight hour walk to pick up dirty – and potentially deadly – water actually looks like. Scott has been able to take a couple of hundred people to Ethiopia to show them the harsh reality of life there. With VR he could take hundreds more, putting them directly in the shoes of a 13-year-old girl who’s walk for water ended her life.” Right now we have a limited capacity to involve people in the good that we do and inspire them to join us in our work. Great post!
Michael

What a terrific use for VR and an innovative way to use VR at a live event as normally the experience is a very individual one. Thanks for sharing that.

This is interesting Braden, I honestly didn’t even know Vine was still a thing. Hopefully with the closure of this department Twitter will be able to take the time to revamp their platform because I feel like less and less people are using Twitter these days. I know at my job Twitter is the last platform I focus on when it comes to social media and I usually only use it as a social listening tool.

Thanks Gennie. I will be curious as well to see how Twitter utilizes this strategy.

They obviously need to establish who they are and the value they bring to users.

Cool. Well done Pizza man. 🙂

Hi Braden,

Great post. I love the layout and simplicity of your post. It is so instantly digestible and easy to quickly read and enjoy. I think I need to employ some of your tactics in my future posts!

Your content choices are all very compelling. A great combination of humor and nostalgia (like those in your first two examples) always makes me pause at least, if not click. I actually DID click on the third example, just to find out what the song was. Shocking. I never would have guessed it…