Bret Staudt Willet, Ministry in Digital Spaces Director at InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA, shares about the patterns of online communities and how to engage them in ministry. More info at https://indigitous.org/events/patterns-of-online-communities/

1. Patterns of Online Communities

6. Challenge #1 - CLARITY

8. All communication is mediated

9. All communication is mediated

10. All media are real

11. All people long for unmediated

12. All people long for unmediated

13. Takeaway #1 –
Be clear with language

14. Challenge #2 - ENGAGEMENT

15. All media are real…

16. …but not all are the right fit

17. Designers vs. Users
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18. Non-users (latent users)

19. Active users - Observers

20. Active users - Creators

21. Active users - Connectors

22. Ecosystem of roles

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Takeaway #2 –
Understand your audience

24. Challenge #3 - MOTIVATION

25. Affinity Spaces

26. Digitally-Mediated Affinity Spaces

27. Takeaway #3 –
Understand your context

28. Challenge #4 - OPPORTUNITY

29. If you build it, they will come.

30. Some places are already crowded

31. Takeaway #4 –
Go to them

32. Takeaway #4 –
Go to them

33. Find a house that welcomes you

34. Wipe the dust off your feet
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35. Admiration for dandelions

36. Genius in the parachutes

37. Case Study:
We started with games
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38. Students reaching students

39. Five Thresholds
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40. Homework
Be clear with your language.
Shane Hipps - The Hidden Power of Electronic Culture: How Media
Shapes Faith, the Gospel, and Church
Understand your audience.
Leah Buley – The User Experience Team of One: A Research and
Design Survival Guide
Understand your context.
James Paul Gee – Situated Language and Learning: A Critique of
Traditional Schooling
Go to them.
Don Everts and Dough Schaupp – I Once Was Lost: What Postmodern
Skeptics Taught Us About Their Path to Jesus
Feel free to be in touch:
Email: bret.staudt.willet@intervarsity.org - Twitter: @bretsw

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