was having a conversation at work today about web 2 applications and the value particularly for an organisation like cms of all the social networking tools. hopefully over the next few years we can make the most of the opportunities they present.
anyway i stumbled across rachel‘s very simple post what is web 2.0? where she suggests that a web 2.0 site falls into one of two types. the first is
community as the content social networking: members share information, the community decides the
value of that information and the community benefits. a two-way open
sharing of information.
this of course got me thinking along church lines (i know i am not the first to think about the concept of church 2.0 – see brother maynard for a gathering together of some blog entries on it). how about church with community as the content? requires quite a mind shift or rebooting for many churches i suspect…
As I have spend the last months writing the thesis for my diploma about knowledge work and social software, I had some thoughts on the similarities of web 2.0 and the emerging church. You can find them at http://tautoko.biz/archives/2005/the-similarities-of-web-20-and-the-emerging-church/
I second the link to Brother Maynard. Andrew Jones has been exploring it as well. Thanks for the great thoughts!
Peace,
Jamie
What if there is really only ONE?
Wouldn’t that be the ultimate “community”?
Blessings.
I’ve blogged some preliminary thoughts and have a draft followup blogpost that keeps staring at me everytime I open up wordpress.
However, I do dig the notion of the community being the content as a way to understand the connections here.
i’ve been thinking a lot about this idea of community/people as content and something just struck me: in the wikipedia of the world, we christians are the definition of christianity and who christ is. constantly updated and morphing – many voices changing it all the time, but ultimately the world’s understanding of christ is framed through us.
not a new concept, but new terminology.