Whoa man! Some real “stickin’ it to ’em/us” from Jordon Cooper in these three posts (this one and the two before/below it): Read the whole article here I wonder if the reason that churches are afraid to engaged in the online discussion is that we know how unattractive our churches are to the new generation of postmodern church attenders and Continue Reading
Excellent point. I have also found myself shaking my head when I see the Church passing up the oppotunities to participate in REAL conversations. (I say REAL, because much of what we do now, IN THE CHURCH meetings, is not conversation at all. I have not felt known at all via traditional Church channels and activities in , oh, 11 or Continue Reading
Great Stuff from Jordon Cooper: here …This hits at what I think is the root of why the church fears the web. Many churches generally won’t allow individuals the freedom to create compelling content and enter into a conversation. Churches aren’t friendly to conversation. The worship is lead from the worship leader. The sermon is prepared and presented by the Continue Reading
A couple or 3 weeks ago, Ken Walker wrote an article that was a great Biblical articulation of something which I had noticed and written about in Allowing Voice. I was bemoaning the tendency of Churches to want to “be the whole content”; to have the people depend upon it (and its leaders) for the whole shootin’ match. That tends Continue Reading
JOHO (David weinberger) has this reference from Hiawatha Bray in the Business Section on the Weblogs Business Strategy conference last week (see my commentary below): Every business needs to know what its employees know. Companies are crammed with experts on various topics whose knowledge goes to waste – because nobody knows what they know. Now give these workers an internal corporate Continue Reading
What he said: what to me is the most important aspect of blogging: the creation of a web of Web selves | Read the article about AlwaysOn (this line is just above the paragraph that contains the bulleted points almost at the end of the post) When Weinberger of JOHO (same article as The Web Self article below – or earlier) Continue Reading
David Weinberger of JOHO writes about the claim by AlwaysOn that they are a “SuperBlog”, and David points out that there’s not really a way for members to “write” in an area that is “them” (that’s how I understand what Weinberger is saying, and that’s what blogging is for me as well: a place that’s “Me” on the Web.) The Continue Reading
A friend on another system asked a question: if we are sure that this vision of the future that has blogs and online community as key facets is the right one, how do we make that future happen? What do we need to be doing to nudge society, even church societies, in that direction? My immediate reply below in Continue Continue Reading
In Small Pieces, Loosely joined, Weinberger describes “Corporate-speak” as “bizarre”, and indeed it is. I ask the question, when does “religious or theological language” become more like “corporate speak”? When does this organizational, “lets please all people all the time” approach become a conversation killer? Companies talk in bizarre, stilted ways becuase they believe that such language expresses their perfection: Continue Reading
Thinking back to the discussion at Vanderbilt led by Weinberger and AKMA, and the debate that arose over the nature, role, status, and value of “the expert”, I was just thinking about the way the Church leaders of Luther’s day looked at him and his use of “printing” as a channel to circulate his views. They immediately procalimed the printing Continue Reading
I found this link at the Smallpieces.com site, and had to click and see what his problem was. from the review by this guy at the Washington Post, who has a little diatribe of his own, giving us a good example of the thing he is criticizing about The Cluetrain Manifesto and of Small Pieces Loosely joined, by exhibiting how he Continue Reading
From Small Pieces. Loosely Joined (p.49): Consider the three places – Adbusters, NetBaby, and RageBoy’s site – on the Myrtle site that we explored. What do they really have in common? One is a political site, one is a game spot for children, and one is an idiosyncratic collection of essays by a writer with too much personality for his Continue Reading
In both internetworked markets and among intranetworked employees, people are speaking to each other in a powerful new way. These networked conversations are enabling powerful new forms of social organization and knowledge exchange to emerge. As a result, markets are getting smarter, more informed, more organized. Participation in a networked market changes people fundamentally. Second, powerful new forms of social Continue Reading
Cluetrain theses 8 thru 10 In both internetworked markets and among intranetworked employees, people are speaking to each other in a powerful new way. These networked conversations are enabling powerful new forms of social organization and knowledge exchange to emerge. As a result, markets are getting smarter, more informed, more organized. Participation in a networked market changes people fundamentally.
AKMA, in blogging the presentation Weinberger gave at Seabury-Western A global recommendation system has sprung up, making us interested in things we never knew we would be interested in. While there’s value to straining toward objectivity, the Web provides a massively interlinked intersubjective network, giving some of the weight that objectivity always used to have. For me, this is the Continue Reading