This is a very interesting article about Why digg is destined for failure. I’m not sure if I agree with the conclusion, but it’s very interesting reading about how social media and wisdom of the crowds may not be all it’s cracked up to be.
Social media sites are an unproven phenomenon, in terms of […]

Is your ministry or church listed in Google’s local directory? If it’s important for people to physically find you then you should be listed. Google has recently added the “plus box” to some of it’s searches. This is one of the results I got looking for my home church:

To my understanding, there has never been a case tried where a commenter on a blog sues another commenter and the blog host for libel damages. But the legal council I received said that it could happen.
This week that is changing.
Calif. court says bloggers can’t be sued:
The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that bloggers […]

You may have noticed at the bottom of every post on eMinistryNotes.com is a little text link that says “digg it”. And perhaps you’ve wondered about it or you clicked it and didn’t know what in the world was going on.
Digg.com is a social site that allows you to submit web pages to the […]

CNN.com is bold to ask Can Internet communication sustain us? They have some outstanding answers!
“True friends […] need to learn when to stop blogging and go across campus to help a friend.”
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Increasingly, young people also are realizing that things they post on their profiles can come back to haunt them when applying for school […]

Is it possible to have community online and remain anonymous? Grant says:
[…] anonymous comments isn’t open dialogue. It’s a monologue. Anonymous has no accountability, flesh and bone, or feelings […] Anonymous threatens true, biblical, authentic community because anonymous doesn’t have to be accountable or ever apologize.
What say you? Currently we allow anonymous comments […]

We’ve opined about different aspects of what online community is about. But my friend, Paul, is asking the deep question: What is community?
I am trying to figure out what community really is. Without any pre-thought, I can say that most people who say this word probably don’t have a clear idea about what it […]

According to Jim, Facebook has.

…people are del.icio.us too!
The Yahoo Search Blog is telling us how the social bookmarking site del.icio.us is more than a social network of bookmarks:
As the del.icio.us community has grown, what we’ve found is that it’s not just the bookmarks that are interesting – it’s the people, too. del.icio.us is filling up with people who are […]

We have been discussing social network websites like MySpace and Facebook. There is another breed of networking websites. One of these is LinkedIn.
LinkedIn is a professional relational networking site that allows you to connect with current and former people you work with. You can search for classmates you went to school with. […]