Category Archives: Social networking

Unitarian Universalist Christian church: 15 years past

Ah kids, gather ’round and I’ll tell you about the world pre-Web. We had mailing lists, telephone trees, gopher (I transcribed the first Unitarian document for gopher, and later Project Gutenberg: Channing’s Baltimore Sermon) and before its current use as a vehicle for file downloads — Usenet newsgroups.
These were chat rooms, divided by subject [...]

If you’re interested in church social media . . .

Or manage a church website or some such, be sure to read (and subscribe to the feed of) Unitarian Communications, advice from the Unitarian and Free Christian media office. Good stuff.
Note: my first time blogging from a plane!

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Speaking of social relevance

How did I miss this video? Looks like it’s a serious ministry outreach, if serious is quite the right word.

HT: Jim B.

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General Assembly: What Was a Congregation?

Ah! It’s just my luck. I am interested in some programming at any given General Assembly, but I have the worst time with the recorded video. What I want is never there — I mean only two of the nine events I wanted to watch were available.  So I come to you. (A word about [...]

(If I still ate pork) I’d prefer a side of bacon

I’ve made it clear I don’t approve of the Unitarian Universalist Association’s Standing on the Side of Love campaign. (Nice, new-media-appropriate site, though.)
This post, at minister and blogger Dan Harper’s blog, spells out the major reasons why.

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Rally tonight for equal marriage

Just got back home from an hour-long rally at Dupont Circle, organized under the banner of Join the Impact — I wondered, why not outside the White House — in opposition to the Proposition 8 decision in the California Supreme Court. But the strong subtext was preparing the assembly — I’m guessing there were about [...]

Google Reader? Do you share your favorites?

Dear Readers: I share my favorite feed-reader distributed articles (including blog posts) with a few friends and they share theirs. I’ve found many helpful leads to important information — indeed, it reminds me of what I used to do by phone (referring to print articles or television shows) years ago with other ministers looking for [...]

“Next year in Twitter”

Ladies and gentlemen, may I present
Moses is Departing Egypt: A Facebook Haggadah
(HT: Tensegrities and from there backwards)

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Unitarian Universalist group at Identi.ca

A quick follow-up from yesterday. Noting there was no Unitarian Universalist (or Unitarian or Universalist or anything kindred) group at the microblogging site Identi.ca, I created one.
I’m — as yet — the only member; please join me.

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Microblogging at Twitter and Identi.ca

Various project has kept me from writing here as much as I have or want. But I do write — not more than 140 characters at a time — at two microblogging sites. These are the better-known (and occasionally mocked) Twitter and the less-well-known but more-feature-rich (and group oriented) Identi.ca.
I write as bitb on each [...]