Ways Obama is using social media

Blog or Facebook

Image: Courtesy NY Times

I can't quite decide - invest time in my established blog or focus on Facebook. Sure, I get much more immediate responses, comments, feedback etc on Facebook, but then I also get requests to join groups I am not interested in, virtual hugs and flowers and all manner of assorted causes to join.

People who do not understand just how significant an impact all this social media is making protest: where do you find the time to mess around online? Yet it is true that many companies are now banning Facebook at work, because their people are wasting company time and being distracted by its live feed.

So, the internal debate is going on in my head.

New online community

Andrew Pitchford (COO of UCB Australia) and I are collaborating on creating a new online community for Christians interested in using new media for ministry. We began calling it Christians in New Media, but have changed to a short-hand: newmediax - where the X stands for Christian of course.

If you are interested, or know someone who might be, please pass this on. Online communities rise or fall on the interest and interaction they can muster, and we hope that we can develop this into something significant for God's Kingdom.