Report by Sue Woolley
Lifespan Religious Education Conference 2011Star Island, New Hampshire, 16 β 23 July 2011 Report on Social Media Workshop by Sue WoolleyThanks to the generosity of the Manchester Academy Trust and the Hibbert Trust, I was able to attend this conference. The basic structure of our own Hucklow Summer School is based on this Unitarian Universalist conference, so many elements were familiar to me: the morning devotions, the daily theme talk, the compulsory morning workshops, optional afternoon activities, and lantern-lit procession to evening worship.
The morning workshop that I attended was led by the dynamic
Peter Bowden, who is a βchurch growth consultant and Unitarian Universalist change agentβ (to quote himself) who has dedicated his life to helping UU congregations to understand social media and to use them effectively. His blog (which is well worth looking at) is
UU growth. I am writing the workshop up without much comment, as the things he was telling us are just as relevant to Unitarian congregations in the UK as to UU congregations in the US, if not more so.
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