Product Management Team at Logos
Hello friends!
I'm thrilled to have recently joined the Product Management Team at Logos and wanted to introduce myself and make myself available to everyone here on the forums.
In my new role I will first be assigned to the Preaching suite of Logos, including Sermon Tools and Proclaim. Please don't hesitate to reach out with thoughts and feedback regarding these tools -- I would love to get connected and better understand how you are using them and where they can be improved!
Before coming to Logos, I served as a Principal Product Manager at Shutterfly and spent the majority of my career there. I've had the pleasure of working on several different products ranging from enterprise-facing platforms, B2B software, and consumer-facing experiences.
I am most excited about making the transition to Logos because I have a heart for the church and a passion for growing together with my church community in a deeper knowledge of God's Word and a more intimate relationship with Him.
I live in Phoenix, AZ with my wife and two sons, and currently serve as a deacon at my church in Chandler, AZ.
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Welcome and blessings in your new position at Logos! Here’s something that I hope is not too much (since you asked) 😁
See this link: https://community.logos.com/forums/t/186839.aspx
DAL
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Welcome David, thanks for introducing yourself!
Current MDiv student at Trinity Theological College - Perth, Western Australia
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Welcome, and congratulations, David.
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David Cosand said:
Please don't hesitate to reach out with thoughts and feedback regarding these tools -- I would love to get connected and better understand how you are using them and where they can be improved!
Step 1: Quit thinking of the tools as sermon/homily tools.
Step 2: Remember that there are as many people teaching Bible study session, sacramental preparation lessons, faith formation lessons, inquiry lessons, children's Sunday School lessons, children's catechism lessons, adult education lessons, church document studies, social responsibility studies, revival sermons, short comments for prayer of the hours, mission sermons, teaching inserts into church bulletins, seasonal teaching flyers ... that should be sufficient to make my point ... as people preparing sermons or homilies.
Step 3: Evaluate each of the functions of the sermon/homily tools in light of each of the other uses.
Welcome to the ecumenical chaos that is the Logos/Verbum user-base.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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David Cosand said:
Hello friends! I'm thrilled to have recently joined the Product Management Team at Logos and wanted to introduce myself and make myself available to everyone here on the forums.
In my new role I will first be assigned to the Preaching suite of Logos, including Sermon Tools and Proclaim. Please don't hesitate to reach out with thoughts and feedback regarding these tools -- I would love to get connected and better understand how you are using them and where they can be improved!
Hello David and Welcome! I think you are now working with one of the best, if not the best, bible software programs on the market! Something I would suggest you consider is (I'll only suggest one for now)..... Maybe combine some of the functions like Passage Lists and Clippings. I think Clippings can be improved a lot.
I wish you well with your new career change!
xn = Christan man=man -- Acts 11:26 "....and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch".
Barney Fife is my hero! He only uses an abacus with 14 rows!
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1. Maintain your focus on the preaching suite! (I realize that other users have different uses of the software, but the exegesis to homiletics flow has great potential for kingdom impact.
2. closer alignment with media between L10 media tool and Proclaim Backgrounds. Everything I do in creating visuals for a sermon document must be edited when I export to Proclaim which means my archived sermon doc does not reflect the version I preached to our people.
see https://community.logos.com/forums/t/215922.aspx for context
Making Disciples! Logos Ecosystem = LogosMax on Microsoft Surface Pro 7 (Win11), Android app on tablet, FSB on iPhone & iPad mini, Proclaim (Proclaim Remote on Fire Tablet).
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Having the Sermon Builder aware of Proclaim would be nice. As mentioned above, there is no image parity for backgrounds. Second, any changes and slides added to Proclaim need to be reflected in the Preaching Mode. Right now, Preaching Mode is useless if you want to control the slides as it doesn't have any access to new slides created in Proclaim.
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MJ. Smith said:
Step 2: Remember that there are as many people teaching Bible study session, sacramental preparation lessons, faith formation lessons, inquiry lessons, children's Sunday School lessons, children's catechism lessons, adult education lessons, church document studies, social responsibility studies, revival sermons, short comments for prayer of the hours, mission sermons, teaching inserts into church bulletins, seasonal teaching flyers ... that should be sufficient to make my point ... as people preparing sermons or homilies.
I would second this. Making the tools robust enough to support teaching as well as preaching would be very helpful to me, and I suspect to many others.
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Welcome to the Logos Team David. I look forward to seeing good things in the future.
Using adventure and community to challenge young people to continually say "yes" to God
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MJ. Smith said:
Welcome to the ecumenical chaos that is the Logos/Verbum user-base.
What a great line. It made me smile. [:)]
Using adventure and community to challenge young people to continually say "yes" to God
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