Monday, January 12, 2009

The Church and Communications in the 21st Century

The United Church’s award winning publication, the Observer, continues to adapt to the new world of communication. You can already visit the magazine online, check out the story archive, join the Observer’s news group at Facebook.com.

And now there is YouTube. The United Church’s Spirit Connection ended its twenty year run on Vision TV just over a year ago. So what should we do next?

Catherine Rodd, the United Church’s multimedia producer, said, “You- Tube is a whole new medium for us; it seemed like the perfect evolution .”

It is an effort to keep up with the pace of change in communication. But that is our business, communicating good news. We don’t have the right to ignore the shift that is taking palce nor the luxury of taking another ten years to figure it out. We need to have this conversation now, with all of its diversity of positions and opinions.

How do you think we’re doing? How would the young people we know rate our progress? What does Emmanuel need to do to continue to evolve?

Can we talk?

Peter


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