Category Archives: Computers

User Advocate

Posted on January 15, 2018 by David

Customer support of the YouVersion Bible app is not the correct title for what I (David) do to help people engage with the Bible app. I am a user advocate, I want to help people engage with the Bible in … Continue reading →

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One Week of Applications

Posted on September 5, 2017 by David

As I (David) work with the YouVersion Bible app, the team I work with is constantly looking at the quality of support that we provide to our users. Our team recently changed our goal of responding from 24 hours to … Continue reading →

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Hack On IT

Posted on May 18, 2016 by David

What does hack on IT even mean? Is the last word pronounced /it/ or /I-T/? We accepted both pronunciations. Hack on IT was an event a few weeks ago in Orlando that I was able to attend that is helping … Continue reading →

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Double Edged Sword

Posted on January 29, 2016 by David

David’s been volunteering as user advocate for the You Version Bible App.  When people have issues arise while using the app if they are using an Android device, can send in their questions, comments or complaints and David will try … Continue reading →

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Participant References can be fun

Posted on April 24, 2015 by David

Translators have many tools to aide with doing Bible Translation. One of those tools is called Adapt It. Adapt It is a computer program that helps translate texts between related languages. In the Misaje cluster there are six languages using … Continue reading →

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Federal Workplace Charity Fair

Posted on September 24, 2012 by David

Today on the Wycliffe USA’s prayer blog they asked for prayer for Wycliffe representatives that will be working with the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC). This program is very close to my heart. It was the CFC in 2007 that first … Continue reading →

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Dropbox to out of the box

Posted on August 31, 2011 by David

A few months ago a translator came to me very distraught that the CDs he mailed to the publisher a continent away was unable to read his CDs. So I asked him how much information he had on the CDs … Continue reading →

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IT Connect

Posted on March 18, 2011 by David

Currently I’m in a 2 week conference that covers many different areas of Information Technology. The last conference was in Kenya and here is the video that they made from that conference.

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Deployment of BGAN Satellites!

Posted on March 2, 2011 by David

Last November I wrote about a new technology that we were evaluating for the possibility of being deployed in Cameroon. I’m happy to report that last week we successfully deployed 2 of these BGAN units and trained the Mother Tongue … Continue reading →

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Journey North

Posted on February 7, 2011 by David

Last week I left for one week for Maroua in the Extreme-Nord of Cameroon for helping our regional office with some ongoing computer issues. The journey north requires several steps to get there since there is no online booking system … Continue reading →

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