May
24
I've been tying the Glo Bible (www.globible.com) recently. It has some great content and functionality; and a new way of filtering and slicing the various aspect of it's content in a powerful way. There are clients for Windows, Mac, iPhone and iPad and a license allows you to install on 5 devices and sync your notes, etc between them. If you haven't seen it check out the features.Among other things at my day job, I help companies implement analytics and dashboards, to make sense of their data and to make gobs and gobs of their information usable quickly to help them find inefficiencies, new trends, and the like. In a similar way and what has me most impressed with Glo is the "Lens" functionality that they showcase here really makes doing research on related scripture, etc. easy. Watch that video to get a feeling of how Glo works.
But, while the interface and content are impressive, it's not without shortcomings. I've worked up a few of the reasons I think it's a good tool for kids and teens to study Scripture, but it's has a way to go before I would say it's a full fledged tool.
This is just a few things that came to mind while I was using it. Some are content related, but certainly many can be easily addressed in future releases.
- No cross references
- No commentaries
- No concordance
- No ability to set verse range for notes
- No export of notes
- Want ability to attach audio
- No way to de-authorize computers
- You get a 'User access control' warning on every start
- Needs better sharing / community
- Would be nice: Integration with church websites to allow collaboration around messages
- The site says free updates, but there is no clear indication of whether this includes lifetime updates, major version, minor only, etc.
Don't get me wrong, you should most definitely download and check out the Glo Lite version - it's impressive. But to really be worth the investment in my mind it needs those features.
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