Last night in Glasgow we had our first gathering of people who are keen to get their churches online. It was great to meet with you all and I hope you will take the plunge and get into blog based websites.

We talked a lot about WordPress as a blogging platform. The URC's new iChurch sites are based on WordPress.

I spent some time with the ministers from the URC in Scotland today and one of the things we talked about was the Resourcing Churches website. It is a site that relies very much on user content allowing you to upload and download resources, add events to the calendar and your name and church to the directory. As I said, it is user driven so join up and start posting your ideas and events!

One of the toys we didn't talk about on Saturday was Skype. It's basically a free video phone with text chat. You can call other people online and talk for free, conference call and and even forward it to your landline or mobile. Nice!

I really enjoyed today. It seemed like a good start, a first step into the big wide world of being online in a planned and organised way... allowing for some cool tag discoveries of course. I'm posting this while listening to LastFM (thanks for that pointer).

Thanks to everyone for comming, to Sue and Mark from Saughtonhall URC for hosting us and to Ewan for leading us through a fascinating journey. I hope we will all be able to contribute to t

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