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Hiatus is over. It’s time to communitize.

By Sean | April 22, 2008

After posting about 50 daily posts for my 40 Days of Catholic Media project, I thought I would take a couple days off before I got back to posting here.  Well, it’s been 3 weeks and here I am.  I originally started this blog as a way to explore the intersection between social media communities and faith communities.  I am still very interested in questions of how one grows within a community and helps a community to grow.

A few weeks ago I drove down to a podcaster meetup in Toronto.  During one of the lively discussions someone remarked that it was quite refreshing to be at a podcaster gathering now that most of the get rich quick, “How do I monetize podcasting?” crowd has drifted away.  Katherine Matthews of the Purl Diving podcast commented that we should not be concerned with how we monetize our podcasts but how we communitize them.   As an independent, DIY kind of guy and a proud hobbyist, this rang true for me.

As a participant in the Catholic blogging and podcasting communities I feel that we are in the early days of a new way to share and grow faith communities using modern social media tools.  Over the next while on this blog I’m going to continue to link to wonderful Catholic media and explore other ways to communitize what we are doing here.

You can hear some of the discussion from the Toronto Podcaster meetup  on the   Canadian Podcast Buffet Episode 99 and on Hot Fossils and Rebel Matters 137.

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2 Responses to “Hiatus is over. It’s time to communitize.”

  1. Bryan Murdaugh Says:
    April 22nd, 2008 at 3:48 pm

    I know that we’ve had this discussion many times before, but I’ll say it again. If we hear the same thing over and over again (for me things click like the hundredth time), we finally start to comprehend them. The Eucharist is the *original* social network and it’s the *first* new medium.

    I believe that every time we make real progress in community in communion processions, podcasting, or anywhere else that God is being glorified, the Holy Spirit says “FINALLY! But they still have so much to learn.”

    The community is there. Our job is to serve it, to wash feet and to be feet.

  2. Sean Says:
    April 22nd, 2008 at 4:04 pm

    Thanks for saying it Bryan. I think I need to hear that at least 70 times 7 times before it sinks in.

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