Mark Brown has announced the launch of the new look Bible Society in NZ website. It is a nice looking (see right), and fairly easy to use, institutional website.I'm less than excited though. I had hoped for something more interactive. The Vision Network site seems a much more exciting way forward, which has the potential to allow ordinary people to join in "talking about" the organisation and the issues it is interested in, it also makes it easy for the "institutional types" to disseminate information, but THAT is not ALL it does. Now, you may think that I can't talk, the website of the institution I work for is less good looking, and just as "read only". However, most of our communication with our "punters" is done on the CareyOnline site, which (sadly? but for good reasons) is only available to registered students and staff.
So, Mark, what plans do you have to let us punters in pews start to WRITE as well as READ your web?
(PS: that last remark may be badly phrased, Mark's blog - naturally - invites comments etc. by "your web" I mean your institutional website... even a prominent link to your blog would be a start!)
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¶ 10:21 AM
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Greetings Tim, thanks for your feedback. The new website is just the first step in a new web strategy for the Bible Society. The Bible Society over the past number of years has been very slow to adopt technology so I consider it prudent to initially take small steps of change when it came to our website.
The next step is to add more interactive elements, a blog and so on. And future steps will involve using the website as a tool and not just an information site, to promote our mission of getting the Bible into peoples hands and their hearts.. So building a community of support to encourage Bible Engagement; creating community spaces for various projects overseas and so on. But for now I am very happy with this first step.
In Christ,
Mark Brown
CEO - The Bible Society in New Zealand
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Mark Brown, at
April 30, 2008 9:03 AM
That's good news.One of the keys will be finding ways to get people started, that is where Vision Network has so far had less success - they've built a better mousetrap, but they still need to ensure that people discover this fact, before they start to beat a path to the door ;)
I'll be interested to read your thoughts on this, assuming that you post some of them on the blog...
By Tim, at
April 30, 2008 10:33 AM
