{"id":940,"date":"2007-10-17T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T23:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/?p=940"},"modified":"2007-10-17T16:41:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T23:41:00","slug":"official-presbyterian-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/?p=940","title":{"rendered":"Official Presbyterian Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Official Presbyterian Blogging.&nbsp; Or is that Blogging Presbyterian Official?<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcusa.org\/pcnews\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Presbyterian News Service<\/a> is reporting that Linda Valentine, the Executive Director of the General Assembly Council, is blogging her three nation Asia trip.&nbsp; As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcusa.org\/pcnews\/2007\/07659.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> the article<\/a> says:<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"><b>LOUISVILLE \u2014 <\/b>In what\u2019s believed to be a first for a  top Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) official, General Assembly Council Executive  Director <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presbyterian.typepad.com\/lindavalentine\/\" target=\"_blank\">Linda Valentine is writing a blog<\/a> during her three-nation mission tour  of Asia.<\/div>\n<p>The article is only three paragraphs long but this blog is a milestone in PC(USA) communications, using the &#8220;New Media.&#8221;&nbsp; As of this writing there are four entries from Linda Valentine about the trip.<\/p>\n<p>What I found more interesting was the apparent &#8220;back story&#8221; (sorry, I&#8217;m from the LA area) to the blog.&nbsp; If you go to the top level of the blog it appears that the PC(USA) started one on TypePad ( <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presbyterian.typepad.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.presbyterian.typepad.com<\/a>) about a year ago but it appears that it never got past three entries on Sept. 5 and Sept. 11, 2006.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t know what else is buried in subdirectories like Linda&#8217;s is, but subscribing to the top level feed did not get me Linda&#8217;s rss feed.&nbsp; Have to do that through Linda&#8217;s page.<\/p>\n<p>I am curious to see if this blog continues once Ms. Valentine&#8217;s trip is over or if the trend spreads.&nbsp; And I would hope that entries would not be too &#8220;scripted&#8221; by the corporate image people and lacking candid comments or written for the leaders by staff writers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Official Presbyterian Blogging.&nbsp; Or is that Blogging Presbyterian Official? 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