The story about Glo is spreading far and wide – from DC to Tennessee, from Waterloo to Honolulu. Publications all over the country have picked up the story about Glo originally run in the Orlando Sentinel, and more pop up each day.

Check them out:

The Washington Post (Washington, DC)

Miami Herald (Miami, FL)

News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)

The Tennessean

Honolulu Advertiser (Honolulu, HI)

Sun Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)

Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier (Waterloo, IA)

Leader Telegram (Eau Claire, WI)

Spokesman (Spokane, WA)

Deseret News (Deseret, UT)

Knoxville News Sentinel, (Knoxville, TN)

Wenatchee World (Weantchee WA)

Press of Atlantic City (Atlantic City, NJ)

Mail Tribune (Southern Oregon)

Contra Coast Times (Walnut Creek, CA)

We encourage you to explore Help and watch Glo tutorial videos on our website to learn handy tips and tricks!

The awards were held May 11 near London, England, and featured the best resources to equip and empower Christians around the world.

This award comes on the heels of another major accolade given to Glo, which was also named 2010 Bible of the Year by the Evangelical Publisher’s Association earlier this month. Our team is humbled and excited.

The Glo team sends a big “thanks” to the Christian Resource Awards, and everyone who shares our vision to connect people to God’s Word!

“Technology has always been a means of bringing the word of God to people. The first use of the printing press was to publish the Bible. The goal of Glo all along was to bring the Bible to where people are in today’s digital age and in a form they find captivating and easy to use, Saba said.”

Check out the full article.

2. Glo Bible

An invention that could fill church pews with people reading iPads instead of Bibles, the interactive Glo Bible brings God’s Word to life with high-definition video and documentaries, high-resolution images, maps users can zoom in on, 360-degree virtual tours and many other features.

Recently released by Zondervan, the groundbreaking Glo Bible combines traditional Bible text with interactive materials, allowing people to see and feel the Bible rather than just read it. The three-DVD set costs about $79 and features five different lenses for easy navigation. The Bible, atlas, timeline, media and topical features create an entirely new experience through the digital exploration of the biblical world.

Glo users have the ability to take virtual reality tours of Jerusalem in the times of Christ then view how it appears today, explore the Sistine Chapel in high definition or customize a reading plan according to their interests. The five lenses also filter content in ways never before possible because searches are based on “tags.” A user can quickly, visually and intuitively conduct a complicated search, such as finding all the Scriptures that feature what Jesus had to say on the subject of redemption during the Passover Week in Jerusalem.

Nelson Saba, Glo co-creator and chief executive officer of Immersion Digital in Orlando, Fla., says Glo explores the incredible potential of interactive media, the preferred media of the new generations. “If you look at biblical literacy among the younger generations, it’s very, very low because most of what you have today in terms of digital Bibles is geared toward Bible students and scholars, but Glo is geared to really be the alternative to the paper Bible,” Saba says. “This generation would prefer to go to church with an iPad running Glo, and that’s one of the platforms we are targeting.”

By offering the Bible in a format younger generations are accustomed to, Saba says he hopes the Glo Bible will bring fathers and sons, and mothers and daughters, together to read God’s Word. “The big hope I have with this product is [that] we’ll re-engage this generation and bring them back to the Bible like the older generations,” Saba says.

Check out the full article.

Glo is the 2010 Bible of the Year, according to the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association, which announced its 2010 Christian Book Award winners this past Monday. Out of five finalists, Glo was the only interactive digital Bible featured in the Bible category.

The entire team at Immersion Digital feels honored and excited to be part of these prestigious awards, which honor titles in six categories – Bibles, Bible Reference & Study, Christian Life, Fiction, Children & Youth, and Inspiration & Gift. Presented annually to the finest in Christian publishing since 1978, the Christian Book Awards Nominated titles are judged based on excellence in content, literary quality, design and impact. To see the full list of winners or to learn more about the awards, please visit the ECPA’s website.

And see what all the fuss is about; pick up a copy of Glo and experience it for yourself.

For example, the results for the topic of “marriage” includes more than 100 Scripture passages. Now, you can press “All” in the Scripture column to select them and create a reading plan, view in the Bible lens, or filter the results further.

By popular request, we added another handy feature to the media lens: Scripture search results now display in your selected Bible translation. Simply set your default translation in the Bible lens and Glo does the rest!

Version 1.7.0 also includes other feature enhancements that make your Glo experience more smooth, robust and stable.

What do you think of the new “select all” feature?

It’s a big day at Glo HQ! Glo and its co-creator, Nelson Saba, were featured this morning on ABC News Now. Reporter Meg Oliver talks with Nelson about Glo’s many features and its application for daily use – both by the “digital generation” and beyond. Click above to watch the interview.

At the close of the interview, Nelson gave a special preview of the future of Glo: the iPad app is coming! Actually, apps for both the iPhone and the iPad are currently in development and will be released in 2010. Stay tuned as we’ll be announcing more details soon!

New Reading Plan Controls – Refined controls on Bible Reading Plans allow you to “check-off” when you’ve read a segment. Plus, a new “filmstrip” design lets you drag to see what you’ve completed and what’s still left to read.


New Topics Added - 190+ new topics added to the topical lens, including justice, leadership and poverty. As always, these topics are linked to Scripture, media and articles, and can also be used to create a customized Bible Reading Plan (here’s how).

Improved Linkage to Top Scripture Results
Glo links the entire Bible to relevant articles and media, but we’ve improved linkage to the top Scripture results such as 1 Corinthians 13, Psalm 23, Genesis 1 and more. Read more about how Glo provides enhanced search results.

And as always, stability and performance upgrades to improve your overall experience with Glo.

Lots more in the works too! Let’s just say we’ve caught that iPad fever that’s been going around…more on that soon. Happy Easter!

We’ll be doing a special series of tweets and facebook updates that recount the events of the Passion Week as they happened.

In addition, Glo has created a media-rich gallery of scripture and images that retell the story of Christ’s death, burial and resurrection in moving detail. This gallery includes high-resolution graphics and images that you can share on Facebook, Twitter or just by sending a link to a friend.

And it’s just a sample of the content you’ll find in Glo, which combines the traditional text of the Bible with a variety of enhancing materials: HD video and documentaries, high-resolution images, zoomable maps, 360-degree virtual tours and more. Five navigation lenses (The Bible, atlas, timeline, media and topical lenses) allow you to explore the Bible and Glo’s content in multi-faceted ways.

If you’d like to go further with the Easter experience online, we’ll be using Facebook as the place to open up discussion and field related questions. It will also house links to all three places Glo’s Easter experience is available.

Follow us on Twitter, friend us on Facebook and check out the Easter gallery starting on Friday, March 26th as we begin celebrating the Passion Week.