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Kev McCord has written up a really helpful approach to using email in a ministry context

Posted by Neil, 19 May 08
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  1. I think it was Hugh McKay who, in his book Advance Australia Where?, described e-mail as data transmission, not communication. This led to a fairly long discussion in staff meeting about whether e-mail is useful in ministry and whether it can be called communication.

    The most helpful think Kev McCord said, I think, was that “just because we can communicate instantly with everyone doesn’t mean we should.” The two main problems with e-mail (and particularly, I am learning, in ministry) is that it is really easy to be hasty in throwing e-mails around, and people frequently misinterpret e-mails, partly because they lack paralinguistic cues and partly because the sender lacks clarity when they write an e-mail. Saving potentially-controversial messages in ‘Drafts’ for an hour or two is a good suggestion.

    — Ben · May 21, 02:34 AM · #

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