October 1st, 2007
YouVersion Beta Launches
Posted by Church Video Ideas under Blogs, Churches, Communication, Greg's Favorites, Intros and Announcements, Web 2.0
A while back, I mentioned YouVersion by LifeChurch.tv. This is a project that my friends Bobby Gruenewald and Terry Storch have been working hard on. I’ve been checking it out for a while now. Now, YOU, can check it out, as they officially released the first public beta version last week. YouVersion is a Web 2.0 online Bible. I’ve been doing a lot of study on Web 2.0 lately, as I’m working on my “Church 2.0″ book.
Kent at ChurchRelevance had a good summary. He described YouVersion as an online Bible that lets you:
* Read the Bible in multiple versions
* Star and tag verses and content
* Associate images, videos, links, and text to verses or series of verses
* Create an online Bible journal
* And much, much more
YouVersion Versions include:
* King James Version (KJV)
* American Standard Version (ASV)
* English Standard Version (ESV)
* New Century Version (NCV)
* New King James Version (NKJV)
* Smith and VanDyke Arabic Bible
* World English Bible
They will be adding additional versions in the future. Check it out!
October 5th, 2007 at 3:41 pm
When I read the above article about YouVersion, my first thought was “hmmm. why do that when we already have lots of Bible websites with lots of commentaries and many more versions to choose from?”
BUT…. then I went to YouVersion and tried it out for myself. wow. It is really good! The features are great!
Way to go LifeChurch!! you guys are incredible! Yet again, you are leveraging the Internet for the Lord! I’m sending an email right now to 600 of my closest friends to get them hooked into YouVersion.