Exploring the Use of Blogs and Social Media in Ministry
Millions of people are involved in blogging, look at blogs everyday, and search the internet. There are 10s of millions of blogs that post about religion and proudly wear the title of ‘Godblogs’ and probably even more websites that can be identified as religious.
Many of those sites are produced by the writers as a hobby, and then there are other sites which are obviously designed to be an internet ministry.
Soon nearly every family in America rich or poor will have a computer or access to one and/or a tablet or cell phone with access to the internet. Internationally, the internet is growing at a phenomenal rate. As a media for ministry the potential is really unlimited.
It is really amazing how many people can be reached and how many nations can be touched by a very simple ministry located on the World Wide Web.
Among the many confusing terms that you run into when you are just starting out in the blogosphere is “RSS”. Yet this term is of prime importance to understand if you are going to expand the influence of your blogging ministry.
What is RSS? Simply defined it stands for : Really Simple Syndication.
