{"id":343,"date":"2005-06-25T23:12:18","date_gmt":"2005-06-26T04:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=343"},"modified":"2007-11-09T10:40:07","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T15:40:07","slug":"electronic-frontiers-of-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=343","title":{"rendered":"Electronic frontiers of religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Fort Worth, Texas, at the General Assembly of Unitarian Universalist congregations<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The best workshop that I have attended at General Assembly this year by far was &#8220;The Electronic Frontier: Growing Unitarian Universalism via the Web.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At this workshop, we learned that the great majority of our newcomers learn about our congregations through our Web sites. By now, more than 90% of Unitarian Universalist congregations have Web sites. As Deb Weiner put it (she&#8217;s the Director of Electronic Communications at the UUA), people who are looking for a Unitarian Universalist congregation should be able to find one if they&#8217;re looking via the Web. And right now, hundreds of people visit www.uua.org each Sunday morning looking for a UU congregation near them!<\/p>\n<p>Another highlight yesterday, needless to say, was the meeting of the UU bloggers who are here at General Assembly. One clear thing came up for all of us &#8212; at least part of the reason we are blogging about Unitarian Universalism is that we want to welcome those people who might be looking for our liberal faith.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really coming to believe that if a congregation wants to grow these days, it had better pay close attention to its Web site.<\/p>\n<p>When I have a little more time, I&#8217;ll try to write more about this topic &#8212; but now I have to run off an report on yet another General Assembly event for the UUA Web site. Where am I headed? Off to &#8220;The Prom You Never Had.&#8221; Ironically, I&#8217;m one person who never had any interest in attending my high school prom &#8212; that will just mean that I am able to maintain journalistic objectivity.<\/p>\n<p>More about General Assembly tomorrow!<\/p>\n<p><em>uuaga05<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fort Worth, Texas, at the General Assembly of Unitarian Universalist congregations The best workshop that I have attended at General Assembly this year by far was &#8220;The Electronic Frontier: Growing Unitarian Universalism via the Web.&#8221; At this workshop, we learned that the great majority of our newcomers learn about our congregations through our Web sites. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,19],"tags":[216],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sauntering","category-tech-and-religion","tag-uuaga05"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}