Connected: The Methodist Church digital transformation podcast

In the fifth episode of Connected, Ben Hollebon marks a milestone: the publication of the programme's Master Discovery Report. In June, the Digital Transformation Programme published the full, single record of everything it heard during its discovery phase — every listening conversation, every survey and group, and research into what has and hasn't worked elsewhere. It went up on the Methodist web...

In the fourth episode of Connected, Ben Hollebon comes back to the tools — the walk-through promised at the close of Episode 3. He opens with a word about the gap. It's been longer than usual between episodes, and there's a good reason: the programme has been finalising its discovery report — the full write-up of everything heard across the listening conversations, the Have Your Say form and the p...

In the third episode of Connected, Ben Hollebon takes a deliberate swerve from the promised tools-and-approaches episode to talk about something more fundamental: how the Digital Transformation Programme is being run. Four operating principles shape every decision the programme makes. The programme listens first, and keeps listening — fourteen Chair-level conversations across the Connexion to date...

In the second episode of Connected, Ben Hollebon shares what's emerging from the Digital Transformation Programme's listening exercise across the Connexion. Since the start of March, Ben has been having long conversations with District Chairs, superintendents, circuit administrators, youth and children's workers, and people in local churches. Not surveys or consultations -- proper conversations, a...

In the first episode of Connected, Ben Hollebon introduces the Digital Transformation Programme and asks a simple question: what if the administrative side of church life could be simpler? He shares what's already working well across the Connexion -- from Zoom Bible studies to Singing the Faith Plus to the Christmas campaign resources -- and honestly acknowledges what isn't: fragmented systems, du...