Workshop: Social Media 101
Lead by Bruce Reyes-Chow
Carlisle Presbytery

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INTRODUCTION (10 minutes)

• Today: Document is online and feel free to twitter #carlisle or questions @breyeschow
• Bruce Intro
• Family, School, Technology
• Mission Bay Community Church and @mbcc
• Moderator of the PC(USA)
• X'er who stayed, techie, early adopter
  
• Something is going on, call it what you want, not important to me
  
• Shift in worldviews, whatever that means
• Meta-narrative adjustments and philosophical realities of modernity to postmodernity
• Normal generational transitions
• The World is flattening
  
• Paradigm/worldview shifts
  
• Keep in mind
  
• We speak in generalities and in the theoretical to help us understand specifics and praxis;
• Constant question must be, what is the relevance to and implication for our church life: congregational and denominational
  
• If we do not understand the world around us, we will not know what we embrace and what we stand against;
• Going to go REALLY fast laying out some ideas, sorry.

FROM HERE TO THERE (10 minutes)

• Terminology
  
• Single Source to Open Source
• Knowledge Media to Social Media
• Web 1.0 to Web 2.0
• Areas of Impact
• Communication - Control of information
  
• Authority - Location of authority
  
• Structure - Fluidity of organization
  
• Leadership - Adaptability of power holders
  
• Community - Nature of relationship

SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE CHURCH (10 minutes)

• Keep in mind
• Must fight urge to dismiss SM without some thoughtfulness
• Must embrace SM appropriately, not see as a tool or method, but way of life
• Must engage SM contextually
• Must have strong sense of worth within the leadership because this flattens the understanding and experience of the whole church.
  
• Dangers
• SM is NOT the Savior of the church
• Not everyone will embrace SM
• SM is Not more than a medium and, like anything else, can be abused
• Others . . .
  
• Opportunities
• Communication
  
• Authority
  
• Structure
  
• Leadership
  
• Community
• Others . . .
  

PLATFORMS (10 minutes)

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• Twitter: twitter.com/breyeschow
• Yelp: www.yelp.com/biz/mission-bay-community-church-san-francisco
  

QUESTION AND ANSWER (20 minutes)

• Pushback, additions, clarifications
• Other questions
• Feel free to twitter your question with #bigtent to @breyeschow or eMail me.

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