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DIGITAL MISSION. FROM GUTTENBERG TO ZUCKERBERG: HOW SOCIAL MEDIA IS CHANGING CHURCH. @ dibdenchurches. Social Media Stats. John Paul II.
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DIGITAL MISSION FROM GUTTENBERG TO ZUCKERBERG: HOW SOCIAL MEDIA IS CHANGING CHURCH @dibdenchurches
John Paul II “I dare to summon the whole Church bravely to cross this new threshold, to put out into the deep of the Net, so that now as in the past, the great engagement of the Gospel and culture may show to the world, ‘the glory of God on the face of Christ.”
History of Media Stone Papyrus Tracts Radio Books Television
Modern Media First television crusade generated 1.5 million letters to the television station Reached more than 6 billion people in 234 countries Billy Graham JESUS Film
Factors for growth Cheaper broadband Economic shifts Fragmented countries Innovation
Well-Meaning Thinkers “The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty – a fad” “Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognise it as a conspicuous failure.” Michigan Savings Henry Morton Time “Remote shopping, while entirely feasible, will flop – because women like to get out of the house, like to handle merchandise, like to be able to change their minds.”
Well-Meaning Thinkers “While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little time dreaming.” Lee DeForest Dennis Gabor “Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never become a practical proposition.”
Broadcast to Social Media Facebook Books Twitter Radio Technology Shift Blog Newspapers YouTube Television
Facebook Facts 1 Billion Active user on Facebook Over 55s Largest Growing Group 130 Friends Average user on Facebook 24 Minutes Time Spent Every Day 700 Billion Time Spent Each Month Source : www.facebook.com
Twitter Facts 200 Million Total Accounts On Twitter 460,000 New Accounts On Twitter 110 Million Tweets Per Day 600 Million Search Queries Per Day 100,000 Twitter Applications 37% Users Use Their Phones Source: www.twitter.com
Blogging Facts “Blogging is simply a new way of telling stories. In the same way that we seek out new modes of worshipping, preaching and reaching out, we must find new ways of sharing stories. The message doesn’t change when the methodology changes. If the methodology fails to change, however, we begin to distance ourselves from the people we are called to reach, and we risk becoming irrelevant.” Brian Bailey, The Blogging Church
YouTube Facts 5% More Engaged With 4th Most Popular Activity #1 Video Sharing Website 2nd Most Popular Search Engine 5 Hours of TV Per Day
Viral Buzz • Buzz Effects
Huge Reach Twitter 7,383 LinkedIn 485,000 Facebook 25,500
Jesus: Master of Buzz “For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord”, we are to be servants for Jesus’ sake. “We carry this precious Message around in the unadorned clay pots of our ordinary lives.” 2 Corinthians 4 Francis Schaeffer “each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.”
Digital Ministry Humility Hospitality Caring Forming Disciples Community Witness
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