IntraNets that connect the internal membership or employees is so crucial to any kind of organization. Next in line is the amount of what goes on with INTRAnets that would be beneficial for the public to know. It depends on the product or service being offered. The Church’s product is “contributing participants” (and “contributing” is not just referring to monetary Continue Reading
Cluetrain Theses Numbers 4 and 5 in my Cluetrain Section
People recognize each other as such from the sound of this voice. People are drawn to authenticity. It communicates to them that their own uniqueness will be appreciated, and that their own strengths will be encouraged and enabled in such an environment. Read more in “Theses 5”
Whether delivering information, opinions, perspectives, dissenting arguments or humorous asides, the human voice is typically open, natural, uncontrived. Here, the Church can be an unwitting violator. The range of “theological speak” lexicons from which to draw is staggering. Church sites are ful of this. Some can be effective, but usually only to the initiaited (IOW, “Preaching to the Choir”). See Continue Reading
My sense is that there should be more similarities in practice to COS-style Christian communities within Christian corporations than there are to “business and management practices”. Where there is talk about being “servants of the Church” , the life of that community should hold more in common with the relational values pursued in Christian communities rather than those of economically driven, Continue Reading