A Final Reflection on my Social Media Sabbatical

This past Saturday, I returned to the world of social media after a 30-day eSabbatical (as my friend and fellow blogger Joan Ball called it), when I ‘tweeted’ a greeting from Knoxville, Tennessee that was the final night stopover of a week vacation to Orlando and Universal Studio. It had been about 32 days since [...]

A Halfway Reflection on my Social Media Sabbatical

Today, I am halfway through my “social media sabbatical” that I began at the end of June. This sabbatical consists of not tweeting on Twitter; or posting or responding to messages on Facebook. (I admit to logging on to Facebook for a couple of e-mail address cross checks.)
It has not been as hard as I [...]

One blog, same writer: Twitter, what to do what to do; Speaking of Social Media and Communication

One blog, same writer…
I decided that I could not keep up with two blogs so I have merged my other blog about rural community into this one since it is the context of my current life and work.
Twitter, what to do, what to do…
It was mid-December that I joined Twitter the micro-blogging [...]

A Considered Social Media Strategy: Social Media in the Rural Community

I remember way, way back in 1995 standing in front of computer screen with a bunch of people and watching America Online load. Then in 1997, I found out a company named Juno was starting a free e-mail service and I got my first e-mail address.
In 2001, I started searching the Internet for sermon ideas [...]

Tech, Social Media, and the Rural Community

When I was a graduate student at Western Michigan University (GO BRONCOS!) in the early 90’s, one of my profs required us to send him an electronic note from the student computer center. I cannot remember if I was successful or not, but I thought, ‘I’ll never use this!’
That was my introduction to e-mail.
Now, I [...]