"What kind of faith communities and religious organizations do we need in a world where we don’t control the message and don’t have the authority to 'instruct' and 'evaluate' but we do have the opportunity to accompany people and clarify their journey?" - Bob Fisher
Bob Fisher is our special guest on tonight's "4th Tuesday" webinar:
Title: Creating a Web of Relationships
Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Time: 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM CDT
Cost: Free!
Like a lot of leaders across every sector today - nonprofit, government, education, business - Bob is asking some tough - and purposeful - questions these days. But Bob works on the staff of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. In other words, he is a leader in one of the oldest and most traditional organizations there is. The Christian church has been around for 2000 years! Yet even Bob is having to wrestle with the implications of online social networking and web-based relationships for the work he does and the organization he cares about. We're going to talk with Bob tonight about all of this and hear what he's thinking and asking and wondering about.
You're invited to join us.
Whatever kind of organization you're working for or belong to - faith based or otherwise - these are issues you're probably wrestling with, too. In fact, you may have already gotten push back, puzzled looks, or outright resistance from people in your organization when you've asked questions like these and wondered out loud about the role online technology ought to be playing in the work you do. Forward this post to anybody on your team or in your network you think might be helped by the conversation we're having tonight.
Bob likes to use this quote when he talks with "church people" about this topic:
“The ground has shifted beneath our feet. … The world has changed, and we must change with it.” – President Obama’s inaugural address
That's probably true for the organization you care about, whatever it is you do.
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