The document provides an overview of social media and discusses opportunities and concerns for Christians engaging online. It examines platforms like Twitter, Facebook, blogging and YouTube and how they can be used to share content, engage in conversations and build community. While social media enables reaching many people, the document cautions that digital activities require time and strategy to ensure interactions reflect biblical values of love, compassion and truth. Copyright and acknowledging image sources are also identified as important considerations for online sharing.
The Digital Age: A Challenge for Christian Discipleship #ECSM2014Bex Lewis
In the twenty-first century churchgoing is no longer the ‘cultural norm’ for many in the UK. People don’t actively ignore the church: they don’t even think about it. For churches, websites and social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Pinterest have now effectively become the ‘front door’ to billions of digital users. As Sara Batts research has shown us, many churches are finally starting to get that the online landscape is important, but still need convincing that something more radical is needed than a new website, as opportunities have arisen to embrace a more social ministry, where to ‘love your neighbour’ may include those from anywhere in the world.
The ‘digital age’ brings the opportunity for a wider range of voices to contribute to conversations: many online will engage with ‘church’ through their friends rather than formal Christian organisations. In 2010 ‘The BIGBible Project’ emerged to encourage those at all levels of theChristian sector to engage with digital culture, and to consider what this means for Christian communication practices, in a culture in which messages are both ephemerally ‘in the now’, and perpetually available.
Technologies have changed what is possible, and for many churches over the last few hundred years a model of passive, presentation-piece services has been adopted, heightened even more by a broadcast mode of media that we all got used to with the TV and the radio. Social media, however, offers much more space for questioning, and for congregations to actively engage with sermons through tweeting along, checking something on their online Bibles or Google, sharing photos of church activities, or being encouraged to continue discussions hyper-locally throughout the week through a Facebook group.
The BIGBible Project emphasises that disciples live at all times for God, whenever and wherever, and therefore all Christians need to take seriously their presence both online and offline. This paper will draw from over 2,000 contributions made to the The BIGBible blog, where over 120 Christians from across the ecumenical spectrum have contributed thoughts as to how discipleship is affected (and can affect, particularly behaviours) in the digital age and the digital spaces.
The Relevance of the Paper: According to the 2011 census, Christianity is the major religion in the UK. As a sector it offers an interesting case study of how longstanding faith groups are dealing with the challenges presented by the digital age, institutionally and individually.
#MediaLit15 (https://www.dur.ac.uk/codec/about/events/medialit/), a session designed to give those in/about to go into ministry some thinking points and practical tips on the digital in ministry.
Fundraising in an Age of Social Media for WycliffeBex Lewis
Session 2, designed to include more discussion/activity, and draw out the fundraising expertise of the people in the room, and put it within digital culture...
Discipleship and Journeying in a Digital Age for #GB14 Worship SessionBex Lewis
30 minute worship session, Treehouse, 9am Saturday 23rd August.
A disciple is one who seeks to follow Jesus, grow in faith, and model Christian living. We reflect upon how discipleship has been affected by ‘a digital age’: has the medium and/or the message changed? We reflect on how it has offered space to journey together, to share our stories, and to encourage one another.
The Digital Age: A Challenge for Christian Discipleship #ECSM2014Bex Lewis
In the twenty-first century churchgoing is no longer the ‘cultural norm’ for many in the UK. People don’t actively ignore the church: they don’t even think about it. For churches, websites and social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Pinterest have now effectively become the ‘front door’ to billions of digital users. As Sara Batts research has shown us, many churches are finally starting to get that the online landscape is important, but still need convincing that something more radical is needed than a new website, as opportunities have arisen to embrace a more social ministry, where to ‘love your neighbour’ may include those from anywhere in the world.
The ‘digital age’ brings the opportunity for a wider range of voices to contribute to conversations: many online will engage with ‘church’ through their friends rather than formal Christian organisations. In 2010 ‘The BIGBible Project’ emerged to encourage those at all levels of theChristian sector to engage with digital culture, and to consider what this means for Christian communication practices, in a culture in which messages are both ephemerally ‘in the now’, and perpetually available.
Technologies have changed what is possible, and for many churches over the last few hundred years a model of passive, presentation-piece services has been adopted, heightened even more by a broadcast mode of media that we all got used to with the TV and the radio. Social media, however, offers much more space for questioning, and for congregations to actively engage with sermons through tweeting along, checking something on their online Bibles or Google, sharing photos of church activities, or being encouraged to continue discussions hyper-locally throughout the week through a Facebook group.
The BIGBible Project emphasises that disciples live at all times for God, whenever and wherever, and therefore all Christians need to take seriously their presence both online and offline. This paper will draw from over 2,000 contributions made to the The BIGBible blog, where over 120 Christians from across the ecumenical spectrum have contributed thoughts as to how discipleship is affected (and can affect, particularly behaviours) in the digital age and the digital spaces.
The Relevance of the Paper: According to the 2011 census, Christianity is the major religion in the UK. As a sector it offers an interesting case study of how longstanding faith groups are dealing with the challenges presented by the digital age, institutionally and individually.
#MediaLit15 (https://www.dur.ac.uk/codec/about/events/medialit/), a session designed to give those in/about to go into ministry some thinking points and practical tips on the digital in ministry.
Fundraising in an Age of Social Media for WycliffeBex Lewis
Session 2, designed to include more discussion/activity, and draw out the fundraising expertise of the people in the room, and put it within digital culture...
Discipleship and Journeying in a Digital Age for #GB14 Worship SessionBex Lewis
30 minute worship session, Treehouse, 9am Saturday 23rd August.
A disciple is one who seeks to follow Jesus, grow in faith, and model Christian living. We reflect upon how discipleship has been affected by ‘a digital age’: has the medium and/or the message changed? We reflect on how it has offered space to journey together, to share our stories, and to encourage one another.
A 90 minute (interfaith) session on social media "please leave them fired up to use it" prepared for Coexist, to be held at St George's Centre, Windsor Castle.
The Paradox of Labor, Privacy & Property on the Core Sites of the Sociable Webmolodiez
Trebor Scholz' presentation at a panel Discussion with danah boyd and Ethan Zuckerman
Friday, April 13, 2007, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center
55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor
New York City
Social Media Masterclass for London WitnessBex Lewis
A full-day course working with London Witness ( http://www.london.anglican.org/articles/london-witness-confidently-communicating-god-in-london/) - seeking to confidently communicate God in London.
Upping engagement with digital resourcesLis Parcell
Slide deck used as the basis for a Jisc session at the East Anglian Learning Resources forum held at the ACER offices, St Ives on 4 March 2016. Participants discussed how their learners discover resources, the challenges they face in promoting digital resources and prioritised activities which they felt were most important and/or required further support.
Some additional information was provided on some lesser-known digital resources of possible interest to participants.
The slide deck is licensed CC BY-NC-ND except where shown on individual slides.
Networked Scholars &...Authentic Influence?Bonnie Stewart
What does academic influence mean in an age of information abundance? This keynote delivered at the University of Edinburgh's #elearninged conference explores the idea of authenticity in the context of networked scholarship, and outlines ongoing research into why scholars use networks and how they read each others' reputations and credibility within them.
Learning and Assessment with Social Media:A Case Study with ‘Manipulating Me...Bex Lewis
“Sit still and listen!”
Traditional learning approaches stress that the teacher is the source of all knowledge, that there is a fixed path to learning.
“Stand up and join in!”
Lifelong learning emphasises that educators are guides to sources of knowledge, which people learn by doing, in groups and from each other.
Manipulating Media was a new course taken by all first year media studies students at the University of Winchester from 2011. After an intensive period of front-loaded teaching, students taking the course worked upon a number of live team briefs that presented problems that required the use of academic literacy to be solved. The projects made extensive use of collaborative online learning. Students produced and delivered work using a number of web 2.0 applications and platforms, including reflective blogging. The course proved very popular with students and there were clear indications of the development of academic literacy in students.
Previously, academic literacy, which comprises the core skills of critical thinking, evaluation of sources, referencing, analytic and critical writing and self directed learning has proven a difficult and often unpopular aspect of introductory years for students in higher education. This paper explores one successful way in which a combination of social media and project based learning have been used to teach academic literacy to media studies undergraduate students at the University of Winchester, overcoming the sense of ‘disconnect’ between the substantive elements of a media studies degree and the ‘drier’ academic style and skills required.
A 90 minute (interfaith) session on social media "please leave them fired up to use it" prepared for Coexist, to be held at St George's Centre, Windsor Castle.
The Paradox of Labor, Privacy & Property on the Core Sites of the Sociable Webmolodiez
Trebor Scholz' presentation at a panel Discussion with danah boyd and Ethan Zuckerman
Friday, April 13, 2007, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center
55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor
New York City
Social Media Masterclass for London WitnessBex Lewis
A full-day course working with London Witness ( http://www.london.anglican.org/articles/london-witness-confidently-communicating-god-in-london/) - seeking to confidently communicate God in London.
Upping engagement with digital resourcesLis Parcell
Slide deck used as the basis for a Jisc session at the East Anglian Learning Resources forum held at the ACER offices, St Ives on 4 March 2016. Participants discussed how their learners discover resources, the challenges they face in promoting digital resources and prioritised activities which they felt were most important and/or required further support.
Some additional information was provided on some lesser-known digital resources of possible interest to participants.
The slide deck is licensed CC BY-NC-ND except where shown on individual slides.
Networked Scholars &...Authentic Influence?Bonnie Stewart
What does academic influence mean in an age of information abundance? This keynote delivered at the University of Edinburgh's #elearninged conference explores the idea of authenticity in the context of networked scholarship, and outlines ongoing research into why scholars use networks and how they read each others' reputations and credibility within them.
Learning and Assessment with Social Media:A Case Study with ‘Manipulating Me...Bex Lewis
“Sit still and listen!”
Traditional learning approaches stress that the teacher is the source of all knowledge, that there is a fixed path to learning.
“Stand up and join in!”
Lifelong learning emphasises that educators are guides to sources of knowledge, which people learn by doing, in groups and from each other.
Manipulating Media was a new course taken by all first year media studies students at the University of Winchester from 2011. After an intensive period of front-loaded teaching, students taking the course worked upon a number of live team briefs that presented problems that required the use of academic literacy to be solved. The projects made extensive use of collaborative online learning. Students produced and delivered work using a number of web 2.0 applications and platforms, including reflective blogging. The course proved very popular with students and there were clear indications of the development of academic literacy in students.
Previously, academic literacy, which comprises the core skills of critical thinking, evaluation of sources, referencing, analytic and critical writing and self directed learning has proven a difficult and often unpopular aspect of introductory years for students in higher education. This paper explores one successful way in which a combination of social media and project based learning have been used to teach academic literacy to media studies undergraduate students at the University of Winchester, overcoming the sense of ‘disconnect’ between the substantive elements of a media studies degree and the ‘drier’ academic style and skills required.
Social Media for Ministry, Chester Diocese, July 2016Bex Lewis
Material prepared for day-long workshop with Chester Diocese by Dr Bex Lewis of Digital Fingerprint, see http://www.chester.anglican.org/event.asp?Page=1287
Social Media for the Scared February 2014Bex Lewis
Day long course designed for the Church of England, encouraging people to think about why, what, when, etc. to use social media, provided by Dr Bex Lewis, Director of Digital Fingerprint Social Media Consultancy.
A quickly prepared presentation to give an insight into the range of projects CODEC (Durham University) is involved in, for a networking event on Digital Humanities
Experiencing God in a Digital Age (Children/Young People)Bex Lewis
A 20 minute thought-provoking session on encouraging children/young people to experience God online, and how it might impact their wider lives so they are encouraged to be wholehearted for God.
For https://theconversationuk.org/ 24/02/17
#MediaLit14 - DigiRev - Media for Ministry Bex Lewis
#Medialit14 is the fifth year that @codecuk have offered an intensive week's training in media and ministry (widely defined, although originally built around those undergoing ordination training). This session will be Tuesday morning, following 'The Digital Revolution'.
Premier Digital: Online Church as Real Community Bex Lewis
Slides prepared for Premier Digital Webinar on 7th October 2020: https://drbexl.co.uk/event/webinar-digital-church-webinar-online-church-as-real-community/
Mini Pecha Kucha: Public Engagement Activity Bex Lewis
A mini-pecha kucha (10 slides that auto-move forward after 20 seconds) prepared for #ERA1819, second of three workshops, summarising what we've been up to since the last workshop.
'Left to their own devices' for #PremDac17Bex Lewis
40 minutes on "What is the impact of children having their own devices, and how do we manage this?" at #PremDac17
See more: https://www.premierdigital.info/conference
IPM placing the christian church in a digital ageBex Lewis
See abstract for this conference paper, to be given 8th September 2017: http://drbexl.co.uk/2017/08/18/edit-conference-abstract-inclusive-placemaking-placing-christian-church-digital-age/
A session with the diocesan youth workers to consider the digital and the questions that that raises for them in their work - giving young people the best choices, aiding their work, and protecting themselves and their charges.
Raising Children in a Digital Age - Cavendish SchoolBex Lewis
Evening event to be held 16th May, at Cavendish School, West Didsbury. http://drbexl.co.uk/event/manchester-raising-children-digital-age-cavendish-school/
Social Media, Peer Surveillance and Spiritual FormationBex Lewis
A session prepared for AHRC workshop on Religion and Surveillance. Taken a lot of prep, and still feel it needs more. Got me thinking about a lot of things in further layers than in the past ... let's see how it goes! I typically use more slides than minutes so...
Designed to introduce a group of ordinands to the potentials and the pitfalls of social media in ministry - huge topic - 1.5 hours ... let's get that debate going!
For Manchester Diocese ordinands
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Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
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This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...
Social media for the scared may 2013
1. Social Media
for the Scared
Dr Bex Lewis, Digital Fingerprint
URL: http://j.mp/socmedscared
May 2013 for: http://www.churchcommstraining.org
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
20. • An incredible new
technology enables the
transmission of text on a
worldwide basis. It rapidly
reduces production and
distribution costs and for
the first time allows large
numbers of people to
access text and pictures in
their own homes.
21.
22. • The new technologies will bring
„every individual… into immediate
and effortless communication
with every other‟, „practically
obliterate‟ political
geography, and make free trade
universal. Thanks to
technological advance, „there
[are] no longer any foreigners,‟
and we can look forward to „the
gradual adoption of a common
language.‟
23.
24.
25.
26. http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/S
tudents/lcs9603.html
• “Furedi suggests that moral panics
have a tendency to occur „at times
when society has not been able to
adapt to dramatic changes‟ and
when such change leads those
concerned to express fear over
what they see as a loss of control.”
Image Credit: Stockfresh
29. http://bigbible.org.uk/digidisciple/
• Whether as a Christian or a digital explorer, you‟re a
newbie or an old hat, a rookie or a bishop (and in the
digital sphere, there will be some who fit in all
categories), we all have something to contribute to the
digital space. The concept of the digital as „space‟ or a
„culture‟ is important as we come from a perspective in
which:
• As Christians we live 24/7 for God, in whatever spaces
we live in or engage with (see LICC for more on this).
• There is no such thing as „virtual‟ and „real‟ worlds: only
online and offline space/cultures – the connection
between the two is different for each individual.
• We need to take seriously our Christian presence both
online and offline. Are we the same person, living by the
same values in both „spaces‟?
30. Love thy neighbour?
• What does it mean to „love your neighbour‟ in a world
in which a „friend‟ might as easily be the kid from
down the street you grew up with as a woman in
Botswana whom you‟ve never seen in person and
only know in the context of Facebook status
updates, photos, and notes? What is the nature of
community at prayer in a compline service tweeted
each evening by the cybermonks of a Virtual Abbey?
What is the ecclesiological and liturgical significant of
worship in various churches across the theological
spectrum on the quasi-3D, virtual reality site „Second
Life‟? How can we negotiate spiritual interaction
in these contexts without losing sight of basic
elements of Christian faith expressed in
traditional embodied and geographically located
practices of prayer, worship, and compassion
towards others?
• Tweet if You Heart Jesus, p.xiv
66. What can you do on Facebook?
• Find friends
• Post status updates
• Comment on others photos
• Post & Tag people in photos
• Offer pastoral care
• Leave public messages on the „wall‟
• Send private „messages‟
• Join Groups, Like Pages
• Link to other social media
• Set up events
77. Blog
Characteristics?
• A reverse diary (most recent entry first)
• A publically accessible personal journal
• Reflections, comments and hyperlinks
• Commentary/news on a particular subject
• Text/Image/Links including media
• Interactive, especially comments
• Potentially informal tone
78. • “See what we‟ve been up to”
• Thoughts & Reflections
• Reviews
(Books, films, websites, etc)
• Challenging ideas for debate
• Interviews (Text, Audio, Video)
• „Best Of‟ Content
• „How-to‟ Posts
• 10 things you can…
• Guest Posts
86. Think About
• Who are you blogging for?
• How often can you blog?
• What style of blog will you use?
• What content can you produce?
• What do you want Google to
find?
• Who else can you bring on
board?
Social Media – all about RELATIONSHIPS, so we are going to start by getting to know each other as if we are on Twitter.
[Form: Twitter exercise]
Something about me … often gets people talking to me – esp if I wear t-shirt as in my Twitter photo…
Commonality – finding a starting point & getting to know each other – essential building blocks of any evangelism, etc… with a strong focus on LISTENING! You’re looking to provide information, engage in dialogue, listen to your audience … build a community who will be interested in the other things that you do .. Expect that these next few days will take some time to digest … it can seem like a lot of information, but this is intended to challenge, enable strategy and move us forward.
Is this your experience? Right, so we’re going to see what else we can do with this…
Don’t’ forget the SOCIAL in social media … about engaging rather than broadcasting (FOR MOST) thought argument for e.g. just not possible…
Be aware that ‘social media’ is not someTHING, but a group of THINGS … here’s an idea of how many … and
Qualman – 4 mins (business focused, but worth thinking about…)
Ever seen this? Quite old now (last year!), but quite helpful in demonstrating the purpose of different spaces online and which aspects you may emphasise.. E.g. on Twitter looking to build relationships around common interests, whereas Facebook to develop those you already have – will change the kind of things that you can say… We’ll come back to this after the break!
What you’d expect from working missionally…
Within the church we need to think about how we engage more - this is the model many churches have now… (as a educational developer, I note that many teachers do this too….)
Can we move towards something more like this – what does this mean for church leaders, especially you as youth leaders…?
This is something that I work with… explain…
Apologise to those of you who may already have seen this … seem to produce a new one each year, and last year it was June, but I think it helps set the scene really well as to why this online space is SO important to engage with! (2-3 minutes)
This was kinda summed up at a recent conference…
This is something we’ve done a couple of times with Big Bible – love to see more – great way to get people to engage with the Bible – think about how to “change” the words to apply in the digital age…
Post-it note exercise…
So – plenty to mull over there in the break time. Got a slightly more condensed session after the break… working our way through a range of tools!! So caffeine up!
POST IT NOTES OR FLIPCHART?Integrity (own comments “I feel, etc.)Self-control (consider consequences of interpretation – inc revisited later) Patience (expectations for response times)Authenticity (consistent to “you”)Trust (information can be out there, don’t speak on others behalf unless permission)Non-manipulative (audience aware, do someone down, bad spin; “If you love Jesus share this”)Respect (encounter different opinions – think through reactions); Good Manners; not ‘entitled’ to respect – respect others first.. Treat as you expect to be treated“Freedom of Speech” – think carefully; LibelSelf-awareness – context; read differently – can you “hear” tone of voiceDon’t press “send” in anger …Kindness – encourage online, messages of supportTransparency – do we know the source of all this… Aliases? Who’s saying what? Accountability. Who are they?
Not PUBLISHING, but looking for CONVERSATIONS/relationship building
Always remember that there is a human being at the other end of the keyboard - each uniquely created by God… and as is noted by many communicators is not what you’ve said, but what others have ‘heard’ … not everyone receives the message that you send in the same way .. And one message definitely doesn’t fit all… we’re in the world of what is described as “the long tail”, where rather than being able to send out a mass message, we have to have more concern with individuals (which I always hope we as Christians do anyway, but…. ) – Google searches for ‘niches’ (small keywords/multiple entry points, etc.) So…
Go live..
Another worksheet…
Here’s my suggestions for a ‘daily workout’ – anticipated to take around 20 minutes a day… worth the investment – really has to look active to generate interest!
It’s not uncommon for a pastor to live in an entirely different neighborhood or community than the people in their church. So, if there’s little opportunity for face-to-face interaction throughout the week, it’s only natural for pastor(al team) to find ways to immerse themselves in the online communities that their congregation is spending so much time in. Zuckerberg – community
7 min vid – not planning to show all!
Worksheet – we can work through this at the end if time… but it’s fairly straightforward … and thinking about WHAT you put on a video is more important in many ways…
Create video – and amplify…
3:41!! Probably would have worked better at 30 seconds …
Interesting – viewing numbers – lots re weddings (always a good touchpoint for the church), from Alan Wilson – blogging bishop/celeb … much smaller/more typical numbers for other videos…
If you want to see what people have enjoyed in the past year … what will people watch?! Yes,… cats… no we’re not going to look!!
1:47 – what puts this kind of smile on a child’s face – and would you guess the brand before the end if you didn’t already know?
1:40 – v. clever – tapping into a huge phenomenon … finding the right hooks…You’ll see we’re looking to the secular world for inspiration here … we are in the world (if not of it) – how do we speak to people…
Tying into current memes and taking the time to do it well (enough) – this went viral! V good quality – usually immediacy more important than quality. [Harlem Shake?]People listen because these are fun (not preaching) – people also like to insights into a particular way of life … Cultural understanding – does this make sense in an increasingly globalised world – probably – especially after so much focus on Britain/the Royals in the past couple of years…
Final word – remember – there is always a human being at the other end of the keyboard… think before you type…Questions?