Who's part of the Visio Dei (blogging) community?
Visio Dei is a church community of about two hundred people, plus or minus fifty. It's hard to put an exact number on it because that would mean that you would need some sort of metric to use to measure the number people in your community. You could use Sunday morning attendance, but if you are saying that it's not all about Sunday mornings, that seems a bit flawed. You could count the number of people that show up at the various home group "meetings" through out the week, but that doesn't seem to be perfect either. So, I can't tell you how many are a part of the Visio Dei church community, but one thing I can tell you is that the people that are a part of the Visio Dei community are not afraid to start a blog.
I sit in front of a computer all day long, as do many other people. So, I often read blogs. Over time it got too cumbersome to go to each and every blog I wanted to keep up with. So, I started using an feed aggregator. I started out with bloglines, but I've been using Google Reader for about a year now. Both are good.
Every time I would come across a new blog, I would "subscribe" to it. Subscribing to a blog in a feed reader, or aggregator, means that I can go to one page and see what all blogs have been updated. In most you can subscribe to both post feeds and comment feeds. So, in all actuality, you never have to go to the actual blog to keep up with it.
Over time, my visio-dei folder in Google Reader has grown to contain over thirty blogs. So, in the vein of creating more community, I'm sharing my list of Visio Dei bloggers. It's worth noting that only about a quarter of these blogs are updated regularly, but even if they're not being updated, you can see what the bloggers were thinking and feeling back when they did update their blogs. So, here's my list. Is there anyone you can add to it?
aaron chappell, alan wilser, amy hathaway, bernie newton, brad wynne, brandon guy, corey paxton, jason gore, jeff ramsey, jenny profet, jeramie mullis, joel scheilman, john enzor, john henderson, josh pease, kate sheppard, kathryn guy, kendal quinn, matt besser, meg boyle, megan remmers, rebecca neubert, ryan fox, sam edwards, shannon smith, the fishes, the mitchells, the paxtons, *the smiths, the wengers, traci rowe, vegged out, will gadd
Home Groups
edenton street, tryon
Those that have moved away
jonathan ellis, the meyers
If I "outted" you and you're pissed about it, I apologize. If you let me know, I'll remove you from my list. However, you should know that if you put it on them there internets, somebody's gonna find it eventually.
* - new addition
Labels: blogosphere, church
posted by Shannon Smith @ 1/08/2008
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I had no idea so many of us had blogs out there... I went to all of them and you are right, not many are kept up to date... whats up with that? Blogging for me has been cathartic, helpful, challenging, connecting, etc. Thanks for sharing your links..
You can add another one to the list, though nothing has been posted on this one.
the smiths (daniel and mandy smith)
Ok, now maybe this will help me to keep my blog updated more regularly...hopefully a post will come today!
Great. We could use your inside scoop now that it is election time.
shannon, i was a little miffed when i saw i wasn't on your list, but i'm over it now. i haven't blogged in over a year, and i guess technically i'm not a part of visio dei, so just want you to know, no hard feelings. (this is not an attempt to get you to add my name to the list. just letting you know i exist :) )
Maybe me leaving you off the list was an attempt to get you to show up around Visio Dei once in awhile. I mean, when you see all the cool people on the list, you'll do just about anything to get your name on there to, right? Isn't that how it is with most things in life.
touche.
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