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Weinberger said some things in his NPR address that he reposted today which get at the points about the differences in ftf and online....mainly here, the ongoing conversation vs "regular meetings" which are constrained by schedule, distance, and on and on........Churches need ot sit up and notice how many worthwhile conversations that typically die out due to the passage of time and the constraints mentioned...but are "kept alive through archive"; and yet not "archived" in a "past, no longer relevant or pressing" sense, but as key points that distill the something of the essence of one person's insight or comments, that speak to another in what could be a much later time, but with a personal relevancy that reaches forward in time to connect that piece of that person who wrote the original entry, to a relevant piece of another person, and join their journeys across the bounds of time.
Studies have suggested that the Internet is making us less social, because we're spending more time tanning by the light of our computer screens and less time with others. And yet, the Internet is a profoundly social medium, what with email and discussion groups and chat and instant messaging. So is the Net making us more social or less social? As with every great question, the precise answer is: It depends ... in this case on how you define "social." But we should be careful, because the Net is rewriting some of the basic rules about social forms as fundamental as groups.
.....So, is the Net making us more social? All I can say is that while I'm sitting alone, eyes on my monitor, for many many hours a day, I'm meeting and talking with a literal world of strangers in groups held together by nothing but raw interest. Social? Absolutely. More social? Better social? I'm not even sure it's a sensible question any more. Permalink
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Businesses are starting to use weblogs as powerful tools for knowledge management and communications. |
By Dylan Tweney, August 23, 2002
With regard to the Church and the business of "Business Blogging for Knowledge Management, there seems to be another key theological concept here: that personal weblogging and business or Knowledge management blogging are "intertwined", since when we blog personally as Church people who are interested in how this whole phenomenon will help us draw on each other and collaborate, we are in the business of "knowledge management" for the Church (at least that potion of it that cares about the same things that we do....and believe me, there are MANY approaches and theologies. for more on this, see
Being Called from the periphery in to the heart of it |
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The inward-outward journey of Mary and Gordon Cosby. An Interview.
Gordon and Mary Cosby. Interviewed by Jim Wallis in Sojourners magazine (Nov-Dec 1997) |
Church of the Saviour MetaBlog section started here on Theoblogical Community
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