Posted by Jim Henderson on: 05.22.2006 /
On June 1, Off The Maps’ website world will become blog-centric.
The web is a dynamic environment – it changes – simply put it is now possible for much more interaction to take place than in the past.
Blogs allow people to talk with each other and that’s what we want – We can get information anywhere, but great conversation? – that’s harder to locate.
Off The Map hosts conversations – here are the new conversations (blogs) we are launching.
Doable Evangelism. Our home blog will be called Doable Evangelism because connecting is central to Off The Maps mission – connecting with people in the ways of Jesus. We will feature a mixture of new articles from invited contributors and our favorite resource materials from our archives. We will also announce Off The Map’s upcoming events and activities on this blog.
Ordinary Attempts. Stories of what connecting looks like when ordinary people practice otherliness.
Church Rater. We call this “seeing your church through their eyes” Now everyone gets to survey churches. We’re providing the very same surveys Hemant used for his Off The Map Project. We will post all of Hemants’ surveys (and any others already sent in) on the new blog. On the Church Raters blog it will be possible for pastors to “request a rater” and have someone sent to their church to do a survey and offer their feedback. In addition to rating “church services” we will be asking people to rate church websites and other online ministries. This way people living in different locations can all rate the same church at the same time.
Conversation at the Edge. C at E continues and expands the conversation that spontaneously emerged between Christians and atheists on the eBay atheist blog. For more details about this blog, see Ir’s post.
After this week we will cut back to posting on this blog to just once or twice a week.
Comment by: Marty
1I think what I am reading is that there will be five blogs plus the discussion board. I am game to try it and see how it works - and will support it as best I can - but I am wondering if six different sites will work well?
Comment by: Ir
2Marty,
We’re not expecting everyone here to participate in all the blogs.
Think of this as: your favorite restaurant adds more things to the menu because they want to have food that more people will enjoy. They keep your favorites because they also want to keep you. You don’t have to try any of the new menu items unless you want to.
Does that help?
Comment by: Marty
3Ir - I still wonder - but look forward to trying it.