Slides+audio (sync'ed) and resoureces found <a href="http://superhua.wordpress.com/2006/06/30/belief-blogging-and-beyond-resources/">here</a>. This workshop explores how particularly a Christian might interact with blogging.

1. Belief, Blogging,
and Beyond

2. Why? Pros Cons Q &A
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3. Why?
History & Impact

4. Mid-1990s

5. “Weblog”
December 17, 1997

6. “Blog”
Spring 1999

10. Watershed Events

11. 2002

12. Trent Lott
Former U.S. Senate
Majority Leader

13. 2004

14. John Kerry
2004 presidential hopeful

17. “Blog”
2004 Word of the Year

18. 2004 People of the Year

20. Stats

22. 46.3 M

23. 75,000
new blogs each day

24. 50
new blogs each minute

25. 1.2 M
posts each day

26. 50,000
posts each hour

27. 14
posts each second

28. Pros

29. Authenticity

30. “Best Pastor’s Blog”
“Pastor Floyd’s web site has the perfect title:
Between Sundays. It’s a great title because ...
the purpose of a blog is to build relationships
between Sundays. Pastor Floyd covers
everything from staff relocations to football ...
to places he’s been and people he’s seen….

31. “Best Pastor’s Blog”
“Although, I’ve never spoken with Pastor
Floyd or attended his church, I can tell you
this: I like the guy. I feel like I know him; and, if
I ever were in his neck of the woods … you
can rest assured; his church would be the one
I attended.”

32. “The most important thing for
corporations to understand
before they start blogging is
this: Companies don’t blog;
people blog.”

33. “A sure way to drive readers
away is to write a blog using a
corporate voice rather than the
discernible, unmistakable voice
of a human being.”

34. 1Thessalonians 2:8
“We loved you so much that we were
delighted to share with you not only the
gospel of God but our lives as well, because
you had become so dear to us.”

35. Accountability

36. Athanasius
“Let this observation be a
safeguard against sinning: let
us each note and write down
our actions and impulses of
the soul as though we were
to report them to each
other”

37. “Blogging is … a barometer of my
spirituality … I have found that at the
end of a week I can look back at
what I have written and see whether
I am growing or stagnating. I can see
if my attitude has been harsh or
sarcastic or if I am showing evidences
of the Spirit's work in my life. I can
see whether I have spent my time
wisely or if I have been wasteful. So
for myself and for many other
bloggers, blogging is a public
manifestation of a private faith.”

39. Holistic evangelism

40. “I had a domain already picked out
when I started to get e-mail back
saying, ‘wait a minute, it is knowing
about you that gives the site some
character and credibility. Postmodern
ministry sites are everywhere’. People
went on to say that without the
personal stuff, the site just became a
collection of links posted by someone
they don't know. My stories about my
life gave it some context and
something to judge it by for good or
bad.”

42. “What we want is not
more little books about
Christianity, but more
little books by Christians
about other subjects--with
their Christianity latent.”

44. Asians on Xanga
56%

45. 18
average age

46. Bloggers ages 13-29
90%

47. Edification

48. Speed

49. “If you followed the blogs immediately
after the annual “let’s demythologize and
debunk Christianity just in time for the
holiday editions” of Time and Newsweek,
then you saw the overwhelming and rapid
effectiveness of literally hundreds of
pastors who posted thoughtful, cogent,
articulate responses to the unscholarly
and, in some instances, irresponsible
articles published by the newsmagazines.
The blogosphere allowed even those who
would never be quoted by the LA Times
an opportunity to respond and then be
linked and disseminated across the world
in minutes.”

50. Depth

51. “I can offer a “serial” of teachings
that can go as far or as deep as I
need to go. I don’t worry about
running out of time or getting the
service over before the childcare
team is pulling their hair out,
instead I just pick up the
discussion in the next post. Long
deep conversations are more
readily available to more people
who are eager to go deeper, and
those who aren’t can move on
and check back in later.”

52. Sharing Resources

53. Dialogue

56. Case Study: Apologetics

57. Stand to Reason
“An individual Christian’s influence may be a
half dozen people, but that is probably a half
dozen people you didn’t have influence with
before. If it’s difficult to share your thoughts
and views at work or at school, write them in
a blog and send your coworkers and friends
there.”

58. Cons

59. Anonymity as a license
to sin

60. Myopic mentality

61. “I am concerned that
blog-writing and
reading only adds to a
bad tendency that we
today already have--a
fascination with the
newest, latest, and
most recent.”

62. “The danger of the web is
this: where everyone has a
right to speak, everyone
ends up thinking they have
a right to be heard; and
when everyone in general
thinks they have a right to
be heard, then you end up
with a situation where
nobody in particular is
listened to.”

64. Blogger
|blägər|
noun
Someone with nothing to say writing for
someone with nothing to do: He is a prolific
blogger.

67. Shallow dialogue

68. “In my experience
personal Blogs are
useful for allowing
people to stay in touch
and know what people
are up to, but are not a
suitable place for the
exchange of ideas -
ultimately they do
more harm than good...

69. Blogs allow people to
draw assumptions, and
jump to conclusions
(then link to them or
comment on them
without interaction or
correction) that would
not take place in casual
conversation nor would
be tolerated in other
settings....

70. I think that blogs are adding to
a culture of misunderstanding.
Too many times, it seems to
me, that the way people read
blogs and respond to them is
like listening to one end of a
phone conversation and then
having the person set down the
phone and begin to comment
on what the person on the
other end is saying with the
other phone partner no longer
being part of the conversation.”

72. Prop of pride

73. “Am I blogging to bring
glory to God or
myself?”

74. I’m
crushed
by criticism.

75. I’m
harsh
in my disagreements
with others.

76. I enjoy seeing
my name
in print, especially on
someone else’s blog.

77. I check
Sitemeter
every hour to see who’s
on my site.

79. I like to hear
myself
talk/write.

80. I Google
my name
every 30 minutes.

81. I’m
flippant
in criticizing others.

82. I experience an
emotional high
when more people
visit my site one day.

83. blog fast

84. Why? Pros Cons Q &A
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86. http://www.snipurl.com/
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