The United Church of Christ is soliciting members to create short videos on YouTube. For that matter, the UCC has its own YouTube space.
With the help of a young sidekick (code name Fellini–he’s a librarian’s son, too) I’ve been taping services since we got here earlier this month with an eye to putting the best up on YouTube. I’ve been hung up on that librarian thing where I think it has to be Perfect. Maybe it just needs to be Up There.
Anyway, interesting stuff, 2.0-wise…
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You don’t have enough to do, you’re going to develop your filmmaking career this rxact minute?? PS You haven’t changed the ‘What I’m Reading’ book for a pretty long time. What books are you taking to Johannesberg??? 😉
What a wonderful way to get local with worship! It could inspire attendance and, for those who are homebound and have a connected computer (or for those of us who are bad at Sunday mornings), it may provide an alternative way to participate/feel connected. Much better (and more genuine) to see your local commmunity worshiping together than to watch those huge auditorium-type services (in my opinion, anyway).
Hope your trip to Johannesburg is fruitful and fun! It sounds exciting.
Thanks for pointing to the UCC Karen! As a lifelong member you’d think I’d keep up on these things, but noooooo!
Anne in Phoenix from Publib long ago
Hi Karen,
We’re thinking along some of the same lines vis-a-vis Church 2.0 (I’ll leave the Christianity bit out, being a Unitarian Universalist…).
See my blog entry on the topic of digital intiatives for my congregation, the Unitarian Universalists of Petaluma. And this subsequent post. Fun stuff!
David, great ideas! Yes, maybe it needs to be Faith 2.0 or something like that. I like the LibraryThing idea. So far I had thought as far as blog, YouTube, and Flickr (don’t forget pictures–people LOVE pictures).
Teresa, one of the points I made to Fellini is that the videos are intended for people who can’t be there (YouTubing part of a service is very similar to something many churches already do: creating tapes or DVDs for shut-ins). In taping the videos we turn the camera toward the congregation a lot. That’s not evident in the children’s time clip, but if you saw the full hour, you’d see that. Learning how to zoom and pan without the Blair Witch Project effect happenin’ is a trick.. Fellini is a natural.
I don’t know if Alane is reading this, but I thought of her when I chose children’s time for that YouTube clip, because some people don’t realize that the church has more children than it did a few years back. That whole branding thing…