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January 21st, 2007

Rejesus blog

Rejesus, the good website about Jesus, is to move from bulletin boards to a blog for its discussiony bits.

This is the link to the new rejesus (with no capitals) blog. The discussion board, which has now been made a bit difficult to find from the main bits of the site, will close on February 1st. The thread explaining the thinking behind the change is over here. I was speaking to someone today who has had some involvement in this, and they more or less said the same thing as Bruce in the above thread:

Although this community is vibrant and very worth while it has never quite fitted what the intention of rejesus is. We have attempted over the years to make changes to the house rules, or to try and make the intention of the site more explicit directly in threads but it has always been an unsuccessful struggle. This community finds its natural home pitching a message to folk some steps further down the journey than the site is here for.

I find the differences between blogs and bulletin boards interesting. On some sites a bulletin board seems to work really well, but on others it can and up being largely ignored or, as here, going in an unhelpful direction. Ship of Fools has a very vibrant bulletin board community, whereas on the Wibsite our boards have been quieter than our blogs, the latter having having proved unexpectedly popular. If there is a way to predict which of the two means of interaction will work better I for one haven’t found it. Oddly enough quite a few well known blogs are now introducing bulletin boards / forums (call them what you will) for the first time.

All the best to the rejesus team as they try this approach. It is a great site and I hope the blog works for them too.

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  1. Gareth says:

    I was a mod at Rejesus for about a year, and I don’t think that this development is surprising – nor is it about going in an ‘unhelpful direction.’

    It’s about understanding the function and nature of the internet, and how that fits in with the goals and intentions of evangelists.

    What do evangelists want from the Internet? And what does the Internet offer? Once they know, they decide on how to proceed.

    January 21st, 2007 at 11:48 pm
  2. Dave says:

    Gareth – Thanks for your comment. For clarification: my use of the phrase ‘unhelpful direction’ was describing the fact that the board was not fitting in with the overall vision of the site. I did not mean (as you seem to imply) that ‘this development’ is ‘about going in an unhelpful direction’.

    January 22nd, 2007 at 12:01 am
  3. Ann says:

    A site that works well is altdotlife.com – sort of a blog, bulletin board, e-zine combo. Has a motivated group of subscriber, which may account for its popularity and ongoing discussion threads.

    January 22nd, 2007 at 1:20 am
  4. jody says:

    It is an interesting question. I guess blogs are determined by what the blogger ‘blogs’ aren’t they. Whereas in forums you can set up any thread you like, within reason. If you want more ‘control’ a blog is the way to go I guess. If you have a very specific agenda, or if you would like, as is suggested here, for a specific demographic to be reached, then ‘control’ (in a good way) is needed.

    Forums tend to be a demographic initially controlled by the organisation ‘vision’, but it can polarise. On the Fulcrum forums we have a range of ‘thought’ on a range of topics. These run well, because they were designed for dialogue of an open sort.

    I wouldn’t have the same conversations here as I would have there, and neither would I want to. Otherwise my brain would explode….:-)

    x Jody

    January 22nd, 2007 at 10:38 am
  5. Poppy says:

    Waves at Gareth ~~~~

    I remember you on rejesus, your posts were really good.

    I haven’t managed to escape yet. Where is the secret tunnel?

    January 22nd, 2007 at 8:04 pm