Blogging Church

I've been reading the book, Naked Conversations: how blogs are changing the way businesses talk with customers, by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel. It's focused at businesses more than mission-minded people, but one church in Dallas gets two pages in the book, because Brian Bailey began a blog there under the church's wing (originally not under its wing, in fact), and is cited for showing how a large organisation like the Dallas Fellowship Church, can improve its communication skills both in-house and amongst its congregation through the use of blogging.

Bailey's blog is called LeaveItBehind (not LeftBehind, as I first read it).

Brian Bailey has gone on to write a book with Terry Storch called (not particularly originally!) The Blogging Church. Further, they've also set up a discussion board on Facebook. Now this is an interesting thing. We seem to have gone full circle here, since the Internet used to consist mainly of discussion boards (their proper name escapes me at the moment, but no doubt someone can remind me). Anyway, if you're not already a member of Facebook, you can join in half a moment, and joining the discussion board is even faster.