Earlier this week I found myself in a phone conversation with someone with over a decade of experience in church leadership. Yes, we were on the phone talking about social media, which just underscores my perpetual point about choosing communication tools wisely and well. Among other things, she was concerned about the questionable quality of interaction [...]
Meredith, Alas, it’s time to bring our blog-alogue about social media to a close. I think it’s been entertaining and thoroughly informative, and many followers of this blog feel the same way, judging by the many comments we’ve had to these posts. We’re not finished with the subject by any means; you’ll be posting about [...]
Meredith, Easter greetings! I wish you the joy of the season. In this blog-alogue we’ve talked about “why” of social media, and last time you described some of the tools–the “how.” Now I’d like to ask about “where.” Can you point us to organizations that have used social media particularly well? I’m especially interested in [...]
While we’re on the subject of social media, I thought I’d point to a couple of notable digital projects by Loyola Press, the sponsor of this website. The Press’s 3-Minute Retreat has just won the 2012 Wilbur award for web-based communications in multimedia or online video from the Religion Communications Council. This is a pretty [...]
Meredith, In this blog-alogue we’ve been talking mainly about the why of social media. Why it’s important, what you can do with it. There seem to be new social media tools emerging every day. My question is about getting started. I began with blogging. Is there another way to get started with social media? What [...]
Meredith, I had a thought after reading your answer to my last question in this blog-alogue about social media. You talked about using social media to enhance our relationship with God and to help us serve and support others. I thought that this was a very “Ignatian” attitude. We like all things Ignatian here at [...]
Meredith, Yesterday was Ash Wednesday! Here I am, still getting used to the Kindle I got for Christmas, and Lent is here. Can the Fourth of July be far behind? My question has to do with Lent — in a way. Last week, when we started our blog-alogue about using social media, you urged us [...]
On Sunday the Ignatian Prayer Adventure retreat begins here on IgnatianSpirituality.com. I hope you take a look at it and consider following it through the Lent-Easter season. Prayer material will be posted every day for the next eight weeks. The retreat follows the design of St. Ignatius’s Spiritual Exercises. Here’s what you can expect to [...]
Meredith, I’m inspired by your passionate interest in social media, and I’m looking forward to learning about it. We’ll be doing this blog-alogue periodically over the next month or two. Let’s get started. So — I think I’m a web savvy guy. I blog. I’m on the internet all day. I use the web for [...]
About a year ago, Meredith Gould wrote a post here called “Christ Has No Online Presence But Yours.” The title played off St. Theresa of Avila’s famous prayer “Christ Has No Body but Yours.” Her point: just as Christ relies on our hands and feet and brains to bring his love to the world, he [...]
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