Today OurChurch.Com’s senior staff will spend their second day attending the 2009 Willow Creek Leadership Summit. Since we’ve been talking a lot lately about the growing influence of blogs and social media sites as tools for sharing and discussing ideas, I thought it’d be interesting to see see how many of the Summit speakers are blogging and using Facebook and Twitter.
Plus I’m sure a lot of Summit participants would like to connect and communicate with the Summit speakers online after the Summit.
Last night I did some research and put together a table of all the speakers and links to their blogs, Twitter, Twitter and Facebook profiles.
Note this is only personal profiles and blogs and does not include those for their organizations. It’s also likely I missed some and this table is incomplete.
2009 Leadership Summit Speakers Online Profiles
| Speaker | Blog | ||
| Bill Hybels | no | no | no |
| Gary Hamel | no | no | yes |
| Tim Keller | no | no | yes, but no posts since Nov |
| Jessica Jackley | no | yes | no |
| Harvey Carey | no | profile, page | no |
| Dave Gibbons | yes | yes | yes |
| Andrew Rugasira | no | yes | no |
| Wess Stafford | yes | yes | no |
| David Gergen | no | no | sort of |
| Chip Heath | no | no | no |
| Dan Heath | no | no | madetostick.com |
| Bono | no | no | no |
| Tony Blair | no | no | no |
As you can see, only 1 of the 13 speakers is using Twitter, 5 of 13 are on Facebook, and 4 of 13 are actively blogging.
If I’ve missed any, please post a comment and let me know, and so I can update the table. Thanks!
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Paul has been the CEO of OurChurch.Com since its founding in 1996, combining his passion for faith and technology to lead the organization.
An accomplished writer, Paul has authored over 2,000 articles on faith and technology, featured on platforms like ChurchLeaders.com, The JoyFM, and his personal blog, LiveIntentionally.org.
Beyond his professional achievements, Paul serves as an elder at Journey Community Church and is deeply engaged in his community through his involvement with the Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranch and the Safety Harbor Chamber of Commerce. He is a contributing author of the book Outspoken! Conversations on Church Communication.
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Just learned Dave Gibbons is on twitter:
http://twitter.com/davegibbons
Post updated.
Thanks for doing the research and posting the information. I’m wondering what the odds are they’ll actually accept my friend request. I’ll give it a try at least.
I find this super interesting.
Robert, it probably depends on how they use Facebook. If they use it exclusively for keeping in touch with people they already know, then the odds are pretty long. If they use it communicating about their interests and passions (aka a marketing tool) then your odds are pretty good.
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