{"id":152,"date":"2021-02-12T19:21:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T00:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weswong.com\/WongoTech\/?p=152"},"modified":"2021-03-09T19:21:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T00:21:43","slug":"happy-year-of-the-ox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/weswong.com\/WongoTech\/happy-year-of-the-ox\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Year of the OX"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As we draw nigh to the first anniversary of the official announcement of the Covid-19 pandemic, we can reflect and learn from the experiences over the past year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out this recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/edstetzer\/2021\/february\/church-in-digital-age-various-ways-church-can-step-into-thi.html\">post<\/a> from <em>Christianity Today<\/em> re: embracing the digital age during Covid-19. The article enumerates options that churches have been doing to stream their gatherings online. It offers some tips:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Frequently acknowledge and recognize the online participants (i.e., multiple times per <strong><em>segment<\/em><\/strong>: welcome\/intro, announcement, sermon).<\/li><li>Look at the <strong>camera<\/strong> (at least 30% of the time) to connect (albeit virtually) with the online participants.<\/li><li>KISS \u2013 <strong>k<\/strong>eep <strong>i<\/strong>t <strong>s<\/strong>hort and <strong>s<\/strong>weet.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It also exhorts to <em>leverage<\/em> social media not just use it. Check out these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/272014\/global-social-networks-ranked-by-number-of-users\/\">global metrics<\/a> re: social networks. It is important to <em>optimize<\/em> not just utilize it; to <em>propagate<\/em> not just aggregate; to <em>communicate<\/em> and <em>transform<\/em>, not merely disseminate and inform. This requires a <em>strategy<\/em> and not be enamoured by technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we draw nigh to the first anniversary of the official announcement of the Covid-19 pandemic, we can reflect and learn from the experiences over the past year. Check out this recent post from Christianity Today re: embracing the digital age during Covid-19. The article enumerates options that churches have been doing to stream their&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/weswong.com\/WongoTech\/happy-year-of-the-ox\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Year of the OX<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/weswong.com\/WongoTech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/weswong.com\/WongoTech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/weswong.com\/WongoTech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weswong.com\/WongoTech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weswong.com\/WongoTech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/weswong.com\/WongoTech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"http:\/\/weswong.com\/WongoTech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/weswong.com\/WongoTech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weswong.com\/WongoTech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weswong.com\/WongoTech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}