The General Convention of the Episcopal Church is underway in Anaheim, CA, and I’ve been really impressed with the church’s use of many of the tools we’ve been exploring during Community 2.0.
Not sure what General Convention is? Check out this introduction by Gregory Staub.
There is a media hub for General Convention. Our diocese has also set up a blog for our deputies to keep us updated on the happenings.
I’m glad we’ve talked about Twitter and online video earlier than I had originally planned, because the media hub page contains both online video (live and on-demand) as well as selected Twitter feeds.
Of course, online discussion of GC is taking place in places outside of the media hub. I’ve been following some of the happenings through Twitter, since I follow several people who are there, and also by using a Twitter search for #ecgc (the hashtag for Episcopal Church General Convention).
Seeing all this new media coverage is really exciting, but it also makes me wonder if less geeky/techie people are being left behind. Those of you who are reading this blog and/or participating in our Community 2.0 program are hopefully learning enough to get your feet wet, but we are a small group. I hope more people become interested in learning about all this “techie stuff” and that more churches recognize the need for something like our Tech Talks or Community 2.0. What do you think?
Finally - if you haven’t been participating in Community 2.0 or attending our Tech Talks, feel free to join in anytime. You’re also welcome to comment on this blog even if you don’t want to (or can’t) participate in the whole program - this whole blog is one big experiment!
