This article, from May 16, describes how email, blogging and social media are useful to the church. I suggested these are tools, resources, that we cannot afford to ignore in a world that increasing connects this way.
Grey Matter Research and Consulting released this information on May 30, providing many useful stats to support my conclusions, such as:
In the past 30 days:
- 21.5 million adults have visited the website of their own place of worship
- 10.4 million adults regularly attend worship, but visited the website of a place of worship other than their own
- 1.6 million adults do not attend worship services regularly, but visited the website of a place of worship
The numbers are more impressive when viewed over the past 6 months and then the past year. The bottom line: 17 million Americans who do not attend church regularly have visited a church website in the past year. Props to Paul Wilkinson (Thinking Out Loud) and his Link Lists for the insight.
Note: this is an update to a previous entry.
The Master's Table 
Twitter is another useful tool.
YouTube, Twitter and Facebook are all merging into one giant website – You Twit Face.
The www is the biggest mission field we have – and most contacts are willing to talk and want answers to their questions.
They are rather interlinked aren’t they. Call me old school, I don’t link accounts…they want to much info. 🙂
American Express has tv ads that promote linking your Am Ex card with Facebook, Foursquare and Twitter. As much i.d. theft and security issues that exist already, would you give your credit card numbers to Facebook?