Since July 11, 2011
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Friday, July 11, 2014
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Got Information? Opinions? Consider posting to #ChSocM Blog
Once the list of blogs focusing on church social media or church tech was very short; now it's long and getting longer. New blogs and entire websites with #chsocm focus emerge weekly.In addition, ministers (lay and ordained) are becoming as comfy with blogging about social media as they are about theology, vocation, or parish and home life. I'm especially thrilled about this development.
Like everything else having to do with social media, this blog continues to change.
In the beginning, I viewed it as a place to post information and tips about church social media in general as well as specific platforms. Posts were written by me and others. For a while I had fun posting cartoons as "Friday Fun" and finding content for QOTD. Book reviews and images to celebrate holy days were also in the mix.
Always at the core? Transcripts of weekly #chsocm chats, although those, too, have changed over time. Transcript posts now include a headnote summarizing content, a list of topics discussed, and information about who was moderating.
#ChSocM chat transcripts will be archived here for as long as the chat continues.
What else should be posted to this blog?
I don't know! Maybe something from you?
You're invited to consider posting original or cross-posted content to this blog, especially if something emerges out of a #chsocm chat or conversation on Twitter.
Editorial Realities:
1) 350-400 words max! If your post is longer, consider generating a mini-series of posts.Ping me: @meredithgould or send email: meredith (at) meredithgould.com.
2) I edit all posts for online readability.
3) Personal opinion essays are welcome; humor even more so!
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Saturday, March 17, 2012
@Virtual_Abbey: Due for a Change or Maybe Complete Transformation?
Editor's Note: Cross-posting this from The Virtual Abbey blog because . . . I can! All kidding aside, I'm posting this here because three years' involvement with @virtual_abbey (including two as elected Abbess) have enhanced my faith and spiritual practices, as well as informed what I know to be right and true about church social media.
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We always go through a major something during Lent. We began during Lent 2009, when founding Abbess, Raima Larter (@raimalarter), decided to tweet the Daily Office as a Lenten discipline. A community formed; the prayer team expanded. We got onto Facebook during that Advent and started this blog. By then, we had ~ 1,900 followers and had launched nearly 14,000 tweets into the Twitterverse.
During Lent 2010, we entered into another discernment process about our structure and our mission. I was voted in as Abbess. Our prayer team shifted a bit and grew, as did what we offered.
Observers, like Tami Heim (@tamiheim) noticed what we were doing and added our story to,@StickyJesus: How to Live Out Your Faith Online, her book with Toni Birdsong (@tonibirdsong). Carol Howard Merritt (@carolhoward), author of Reframing Hope: Vital Ministry in a New Generation, invited me to talk about our growth and challenges onGod Complex Radio.
And then came Lent 2011. And another discernment process. Did we want me to continue? What did we want to do about prayer team attrition? (You can track the history of our conversations by review posts tagged " announcements.")
Now, it's Lent 2012 and while we have come to consensus about where we are as a prayer team, we have no idea how@virtual_abbey will survive on Twitter. Over 4,000 followers and more than 50,000 tweets later, we're in advanced burnout mode. Still, about this we are sure: praying the Daily Office satisfies a spirit-and-heart filled need for this enduring, structured prayer form.
While we may be a virtual abbey, we're also a real community of real people who, despite our love (and sometimes deep craving) for monastic life, have secular roles and responsibilities. We love and support one another online and off. At this point, most of us have met IRL (in real life). Still, we're tired. Tapped out. Did I mention advanced burnout?
In virtual reality, three years is an admirably long time for a virtual community to thrive and survive. Will @virtual_abbey continue? Should it? If so, we need your help. What would that look like? Only God -- and perhaps you -- know the answer to that! Options include transferring the accounts and tweeting responsibilities to another informal or even formal group...letting it fade into Great Silence...or?
Here's how you can help:
Will you help guide us? We're open to whatever is next. Thanks be to God!
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O Lord God,The "I" in this well-know prayer by Trappist monk, Thomas Merton, should really be "we" and "we" refers to @virtual_abbey.
I have no idea where I am going,
I do not see the road ahead of me,
I cannot know for certain where it will end.
from a prayer by Thomas Merton
We always go through a major something during Lent. We began during Lent 2009, when founding Abbess, Raima Larter (@raimalarter), decided to tweet the Daily Office as a Lenten discipline. A community formed; the prayer team expanded. We got onto Facebook during that Advent and started this blog. By then, we had ~ 1,900 followers and had launched nearly 14,000 tweets into the Twitterverse.
During Lent 2010, we entered into another discernment process about our structure and our mission. I was voted in as Abbess. Our prayer team shifted a bit and grew, as did what we offered.
Observers, like Tami Heim (@tamiheim) noticed what we were doing and added our story to,@StickyJesus: How to Live Out Your Faith Online, her book with Toni Birdsong (@tonibirdsong). Carol Howard Merritt (@carolhoward), author of Reframing Hope: Vital Ministry in a New Generation, invited me to talk about our growth and challenges onGod Complex Radio.
And then came Lent 2011. And another discernment process. Did we want me to continue? What did we want to do about prayer team attrition? (You can track the history of our conversations by review posts tagged " announcements.")
Now, it's Lent 2012 and while we have come to consensus about where we are as a prayer team, we have no idea how@virtual_abbey will survive on Twitter. Over 4,000 followers and more than 50,000 tweets later, we're in advanced burnout mode. Still, about this we are sure: praying the Daily Office satisfies a spirit-and-heart filled need for this enduring, structured prayer form.
While we may be a virtual abbey, we're also a real community of real people who, despite our love (and sometimes deep craving) for monastic life, have secular roles and responsibilities. We love and support one another online and off. At this point, most of us have met IRL (in real life). Still, we're tired. Tapped out. Did I mention advanced burnout?
In virtual reality, three years is an admirably long time for a virtual community to thrive and survive. Will @virtual_abbey continue? Should it? If so, we need your help. What would that look like? Only God -- and perhaps you -- know the answer to that! Options include transferring the accounts and tweeting responsibilities to another informal or even formal group...letting it fade into Great Silence...or?
Here's how you can help:
- Put your proposals into a comment on this blog.
- Communicate with us via DM to @meredithgould.
- Participate or lurk on the #pttalk chat on Twitter this Thursday, March 22 from 11:00 AM-noon ET, where I'll be twinterviewed by folks at the Presbytery of Twitter about virtual communities of real faith in general and the @virtual_abbey in particular.
Will you help guide us? We're open to whatever is next. Thanks be to God!
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Come One, Come All to the Tweetchat Tonight!
We are looking forward to our weekly #chsocm tweetchat tonight (August 9, 2011) at 9:00 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time). Please join us! Everyone is welcome -- experienced or just getting started, clergy and lay, from church or faith-based organizations.
If you've never participated in a tweetchat, check out Meredith's easy-peasy slideshow guide (click here). It tells you what we're doing, how we'll do it, and how you can participate (by using Tweetchat or Tweetdeck).
And if you have suggestions for topics, tweet them directly to our lovely and talented admin, @chsocm.
If you're not able to join us tonight, remember to check back here for the transcript, which will be posted soon after the chat, and mark your calendar for next week's chat.
If you've never participated in a tweetchat, check out Meredith's easy-peasy slideshow guide (click here). It tells you what we're doing, how we'll do it, and how you can participate (by using Tweetchat or Tweetdeck).
And if you have suggestions for topics, tweet them directly to our lovely and talented admin, @chsocm.
If you're not able to join us tonight, remember to check back here for the transcript, which will be posted soon after the chat, and mark your calendar for next week's chat.
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Join Us for Another ChSocM Tweetchat Tonight!
It's time again for our weekly #chsocm tweetchat tonight at 9:00 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time). Everyone is welcome -- experienced or just getting started, clergy and lay, from church or faith-based organizations. Please join us!
If you've never participated in a tweetchat, check out Meredith's easy-peasy slideshow guide (click here). It tells you what we're doing, how we'll do it, and how you can participate (by using Tweetchat or Tweetdeck).
And if you have suggestions for topics, tweet them directly to our lovely and talented admin, @chsocm.
If you're not able to join us tonight, remember to check back here for the transcript, which will be posted soon after the chat, and mark your calendar for next week's chat.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
#ChSocm Tweetchat Again Tonight!
It's time again for our weekly #chsocm tweetchat tonight at 9:00 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time). Everyone is welcome -- experienced or just getting started, clergy and lay, from church or faith-based organizations. Please join us!
Last week's chat was lots of fun! Fast and furious, perhaps, because everyone was participating enthusiastically, but as Meredith said in the previous post, just go with the flow and plan to look up the transcript later to catch details you might have missed. The conversation continues on Twitter using the hashtag #chsocm. Check it out.
If you've never participated in a tweetchat, check out Meredith's easy-peasy slideshow guide (click here). It tells you what we're doing, how we'll do it, and how you can participate (by using Tweetchat or Tweetdeck).
If you're not able to join us tonight, remember to check back here for the transcript, which will be posted soon after the chat, and mark your calendar for next week's chat.
Last week's chat was lots of fun! Fast and furious, perhaps, because everyone was participating enthusiastically, but as Meredith said in the previous post, just go with the flow and plan to look up the transcript later to catch details you might have missed. The conversation continues on Twitter using the hashtag #chsocm. Check it out.
If you've never participated in a tweetchat, check out Meredith's easy-peasy slideshow guide (click here). It tells you what we're doing, how we'll do it, and how you can participate (by using Tweetchat or Tweetdeck).
If you're not able to join us tonight, remember to check back here for the transcript, which will be posted soon after the chat, and mark your calendar for next week's chat.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
#Chsocm Tweetchat Tonight!
Don't forget we're having our second weekly #chsocm tweetchat tonight at 9:00 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time). Everyone is welcome -- experienced or just getting started, clergy and lay, from church or faith-based organizations. Please join us!
Last week's chat was fun and informative. We made new friends and exchanged ideas and information. Our conversation has continued throughout the week on Twitter, using the hashtag #chsocm. Check it out.
If you've never participated in a tweetchat, check out Meredith's easy-peasy slideshow guide (click here). It tells you what we're doing, how we'll do it, and how you can participate (by using Tweetchat or Tweetdeck).
If you're not able to join us tonight, remember to check back here for the transcript, which will be posted soon after the chat, and mark your calendar for next week's chat.
Last week's chat was fun and informative. We made new friends and exchanged ideas and information. Our conversation has continued throughout the week on Twitter, using the hashtag #chsocm. Check it out.
If you've never participated in a tweetchat, check out Meredith's easy-peasy slideshow guide (click here). It tells you what we're doing, how we'll do it, and how you can participate (by using Tweetchat or Tweetdeck).
If you're not able to join us tonight, remember to check back here for the transcript, which will be posted soon after the chat, and mark your calendar for next week's chat.
Friday, July 15, 2011
#chsocm for July 19, 2011
Our next chat is Tuesday, July 19 at 9:00 PM (Eastern)/8:00 PM (Central)/6:00 PM (Pacific). Topics to be determined and announced. What would you like us to discuss? Feel free to suggest something, here's how!
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