Well, I forgot to mention Dale Lature yesterday, and Bob “No Web Presence” Carlton volunteered, as did Dave “C & E” Rogers, and at this rate we can requisition a decent-sized Headquarters building — kinda like the old firehouse they rehabbed in Ghostbusters, but with wifi.
Posted by AKMA at July 15, 2003 02:47 PM | TrackBackThanks AKMA. I somehow got my RSS subscription to AKMA's Random Thoughts disconnected. Anyway, I re-entered it and there the posts came.
Certain points which I also hold up as KEY things that Churches with non-Blog or Non-conversational Websites are missing:
AKMA: It’s a way to connect, as distinct from “getting a message to”; .... It’s opening up a conversation.
AKMA:It’s a way to connect with people who are already interested in something about your congregation. They’re not at your web site because you interposed a commercial between two segments of their favorite Seinfeld episode, or because you bought a couple of column inches next to a news report about the new organ at Such-and-Such Church. They deliberately sought out your web site. That makes a huge difference, and a fabulous opportunity to communicate with them.
Related to this is a comment by
Gerry: "What you and your congregation say to each other become fodder for search engines that can draw people in. Not that you would necessarily think about this when writing for the site."
But yes, it does happen. I find articles I've written in my Weblog on various Searches, when I 'm looking for something else. It indicates to me how easy it is for "like-minded, similarly interested, fellow-impassioned-about-something individuals to find one another, and via that connection, whole communities. Macromedia has done aggregation of Macromedia blogs, why shouldn't the Church start "aggregating work" (It's done that with other "works" throughout history---- the Web provides a lot of tools and options to do so.
MOre commenting over (as of now) at in the other post
Posted by: Dale Lature at July 17, 2003 05:43 PM