I’m not talking about evangelistic sermons on blogs, but that churches need bloggers to tell their story; to tell their story is hopefully also to tell the story of their church. And this enables the blogosphere readers to find churches that are talking about and doing things which proclaim “good news”; that here is a place and a people who Continue Reading
My previous post I touched on the issue of VIRTUAL vs Face-to-face; is it possible to have “Virtual Church”? I avoid the term “Virtual Church” because it always ends up setting up that confrontation where people say ” I think you have to be a physical church”. I agree. But that misses a big point. Even in physical churches, we Continue Reading
This (hat tip to Matt Carlisle) from United Methodist Reporter on Blogging and the United Methodist Church: United Methodist blogs give laity greater voice The beauty of the Web, he said, is that it allows people to find each other. Readers often comment that they\’re happy to connect with someone who believes the same thing they do. Matt adds this Continue Reading
via Gavin, this from the Tennessean about the SBC’s election of a new, “more moderate” president. I had been so turned off by the SBC convention that I had forgotten to check how their election of a new president had come out. Baptists shake up old-guard leadership – Nashville, Tennessee – Wednesday, 06/14/06 – Tennessean.com Wade Burleson, an Oklahoma pastor Continue Reading
In Naked Conversations, the authors make the point that “waiting until we have all the facts” is sometimes deadly (they give the example of heart attacks; that is better to act quick upon a few key warning signs than to “wait until we have all the facts“…p.200) So many companies and organizations are using this approach on the Web and Continue Reading
“Where people are encouraged to speak their mind, and those in power trust the people they oversee, blogging flourishes”. —Naked Conversations, p.131 Hear that churches and denominations? Are our doors always open? ‘Nuff said.
Larry Hollon posts about rage online: Raging on the Internet while I agree that the connectedness we enjoy is also a challenge, I don’t think it’s the ultimate cause. It’s a convenient tool to help pour salt. But it didn’t create the wounds. The wounds are created by the daily humiliation and struggle of poverty. That they erupt with such Continue Reading
Internet Efficiencies p.41—-see later post Blogging is word of mouth on steroids p.43 “Blogging is faster and more effective than walking from village to vilalge and knocking on doors” p.44 Welll, not exactly (perhaps for products…not for the fuller engagment whcih leads to community, and more specifically, the type of community we are about)…….the aim I have is to draw Continue Reading
“Transparency is not high-risk unless you have something to hide” Vic Gondrota, General Manager for Platform Evangelism, Microsoft in Naked Conversations, p. 17 Another quote from Microsoft’s Tech Evangelist, Lenn Pryor: “There’s no doubt we moved the needle, he said, adding with apparent pride, “and we did it without so much as a press release” p.16 The above attest to Continue Reading
Jay has some good thoughts on church culture and technology usage. The email was to a group that had been discussing some ideas for doing a Methodist Blogger Event, and Cole had expressed frustration about the Southern Baptists getting an article in the Tennessean about one of their execs that has a blog and was talking about the use of Continue Reading
I just read this: via JOHO (David Weinberger) which points to this: David Weinberger, January 2006 :: Rebecca Blood: Bloggers On Blogging and it is one of those pieces that get me charged up about the sociological/communal stuff re: blogging, and its coming from one, David Weinberger, who is one of the “BlogFathers” in my own “blog journey”. Not that Continue Reading
In Habits of the High-Tech Heart: Living Virtuously in the Information Age, Qunetin Schultze takes on the “hype” about the Internet. I read this book in early 2003, and wrote quite a few posts questioning his portrayal. The posts were in my older blog, under my Book Bloggin’ section, and I did quite a few retorts. I was thinking earlier Continue Reading
Technorati has been around, doing these things for a while now, but this is the first time I’ve taken notice of a major News source using it to link to blogosphere (blogospherical?) content. I have TalkingPointsmemo on my RSS list to do my keeping up with the signs of corruption bubbling over in the Bush White House and with his Continue Reading
The below quotes are from Eric’s comments on a post the other day about the “dangers” of expressing your thoughts on blogs. Eric captured the sense (as did another commenter, “provoked”) Movable Theoblogical: Self-revelation of Bloggers I blog in exact opposition to those who would want to keep stifling forms of institution in my face. I blog, while respecting academia, Continue Reading
Just found this blog via AKMA Shovelware by Mark Dery. I read a couple of books by him way back at the outset of the Web, when I was doing some heavy research into online community. His books were Flame Wars and Escape Velocity, both on tech-head culture and online discourse. He interviews Erik Davis (who authored TechGnosis in 1998. Continue Reading