I loved this from Bishop Nick Baines' blog, via Charlie Peer. Nick emphasises three points about new Media:
- we need to be confident about the message we hope to communicate via various media
- attention needs to be paid to learning the languages that people speak/hear in order that we can ensure good communication
- new media offer great new possibilities for
- giving people access to people (like me – a bishop) whose life and preoccupations might otherwise belong to a remote and mysterious hidden world,
- engaging outside and beyond the safe and comfortable territory of those who ‘belong’ to the communities in which we live and work,
- being present in a space where a different sort of conversation can be had, and
- allowing connectivity between people, groups and ideas that in a previous generation might not have been possible, even if desirable.
I also thought that the Church Mouse had an excellent point in this podcast, where he talked about the difficulties that Bishop Pete Broadbent had suffered recently due to his Facebook Page, and suggested that a disastrous outcome would be if Bishops and Vicars withdrew from Social Media because they became afraid of the consequences.