Pitching My Two Cents

Last weekend, I attended New Organizing Institute’s RootsCampDC. One of the was titled, “Organizing Jesusland” and another dealt with Evangelical faith values and progressive politics. Of course, this got this mind of mine thinking.

A few weeks ago, my friend Steve Knight invited me to speak at Transform that’s taking place here in DC in April. He asked me to reach back into my Social Media know-how and possibly do some sort of bootcamp for Missional Christian types. Of course I was thrilled since I’ve taken a 3 year break from anything Emerging or Missional… or related to Jesusistan. I jokingly asked, “Do people still not know how to use Facebook and YouTube?” So here’s my spin taking my inspiration from RootsCamp. Hopefully, Steve will go for it…

Organizing for the United States of Evangelicals: Lessons from the Obama Campaign’s use of Web 2.0

Looking at the social media tools behind web 2.0, how Evangelicals are using them, and what we can learn from the Campaign for Change. Are Evangelicals tapping into ways to organize missionally or are they sticking to online marketing and evangelizing?