{"id":10105,"date":"2016-11-03T19:35:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T02:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dminlgp.com\/?p=10105"},"modified":"2016-11-03T19:35:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T02:35:23","slug":"show-and-tell-in-the-sandbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/show-and-tell-in-the-sandbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Show-and-Tell in the Sandbox"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Show_and_Tell_YT\"<\/a>Show-and-Tell needs guidelines.\u00a0 Even the concept of \u201cshowing\u201d must have some parameters or you can cross over lines that are both offensive, immoral, and possibly illegal.\u00a0 To \u201ctell\u201d is the challenge in today\u2019s social media, world access through the internet, and hundreds of cable stations that bombard us 24\/7.\u00a0 In a society that is longing for transparency and openness, how far is too far?<\/p>\n

The paradox is the call for openness in the midst of being P.C. (politically correct).\u00a0 Transparency and openness are acceptable as long as they fall into an ever shifting value of \u201cnorm\u201d that is deemed correct.\u00a0 The question is who determines the \u201cnorm\u201d and the \u201ccorrect\u201d?<\/p>\n

Charlene Li in her work, Open Leadership:\u00a0 How Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead, <\/em>helped me with this by clarifying the need for the proper usage of words to describe being open.\u00a0 She states, \u201cLet\u2019s dive deeper into what exactly transparency means.\u00a0 Rather than actually using the word, \u2018transparency\u2019, which implies complete openness and candor, I prefer to describe this skill as making information and processes, \u2018visible\u2019.\u201d[1]<\/a><\/p>\n

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Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n

Li gives us four points to the culture and world of sharing that we live in:<\/p>\n

\u201c1.\u00a0 More People Online.\u00a0 Not only is the number of people going online growing, but the time they spend and the kinds of things they do online are both also multiplying.\u00a0 According to the internetworldstats.com, 1.7 billion people globally are active on the Internet.<\/p>\n

2. \u00a0 The Widespread Use of Social Sites. Similarly, social networking site usage has jumped, growing from 27 percent of global online users to 63 percent of all users ages eighteen to fifty-four globally.<\/p>\n

3. \u00a0The Rise of Sharing. More than anything else, the past few years have been dominated by the rise of a culture of sharing.\u201d[2]<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

We live in a world that the information highway is on hyper speed.\u00a0 This information overload has challenged businesses, organizations, and churches to be what Li calls \u201copen\u201d.\u00a0 She believes that a \u201cnew generation of workers is coming of age that believes \u2018sharing-ness\u2019 is next to \u2013 or more important than \u2013 godliness.\u00a0 Moreover, the demand to be more open about how an organization makes decisions and operates is coming from people both inside and outside <\/em>the organization.\u201d[3]<\/a><\/p>\n

This desire for \u201copenness\u201d has the potential to create chaos if not understood and engaged with healthy.\u00a0 Li states that, \u201cYou can find one type of decision making among executive ranks and another type being used at the team level.\u00a0 There are four major types of decision making in organizations today:\u00a0 centralized, democratic, consensus, and distributed.\u201d[4]<\/a><\/p>\n

With the hiring of younger staff, what was once considered protocol in decision making, is now under question.\u00a0 The openness and visibility of information does not allow an elite, centralized group to make decisions because younger staff can access information at a higher rate than ever before.\u00a0 Li\u2019s analogy of the four major types of decision making was illuminating, even in \"engagement<\/a>church life.<\/p>\n

Li presents an engagement pyramid that \u201cshows how people \u2013 both customers and employees \u2013 are engaging with your company, brand, product, or even a broad topic.\u00a0 They pyramid is made up of five levels, with each level representing a higher degree of engagement behavior.\u201d[5]<\/a>\u00a0 It is one thing to deluge large amounts of information to people and it is quite another to have information that \u201csticks\u201d because people are engaged.<\/p>\n

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Analysis<\/strong><\/p>\n

At Christ Life, the church that I am the senior pastor, we have had discussions on how do we address our social media usage.\u00a0 Who can say what and from what format can they speak?\u00a0 Personally or for the church body?\u00a0 How open can they be with their \u201copinions\u201d from politics to present day moral challenges on social media?<\/p>\n

On staff we have the \u201cKing of Facebook\u201d, as he is commonly referred to, who has immediate response rate and proper wording for the inquisitive seeker.\u00a0 He monitors the \u201cquacks\u201d and their \u201cquaky comments\u201d.\u00a0 The only parameter or guard rail has been trust by a loyal and trustworthy employee.<\/p>\n

\"playing-in-the-sandbox\"<\/a>Li helped me with her \u201csandbox\u201d analogy.\u00a0 She said that, \u201cOne way to think about openness is to use a playground sandbox metaphor.\u00a0 On the one hand, there are clearly defined boundaries to the sandbox, and within those boundaries, it\u2019s a safe place to play.\u00a0 On the other hand, the sandbox still has rules:\u00a0 no throwing sand at other players, no taking someone\u2019s truck unless you have permission.\u201d[6]<\/a><\/p>\n

We have not established a formidable \u201cvisible\u201d principle for \u201cshow-and-tell\u201d with our social media.\u00a0 I am hoping that all of us are playing in the sandbox fairly because we are articulating the values, vision, and mission of the church.\u00a0 Technology and the social expression is moving quite fast and it is an effective of ministry.\u00a0 I just hope we respect all players in the sandbox as we continue to \u201cshow-and-tell\u201d the Christ Life at Christ Life Church.<\/p>\n

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[1]<\/a> Charlene Li, Open Leadership:\u00a0 How Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead, <\/em>(San Francisco, CA:\u00a0 Jossey-Bass, 2010), 193.<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> Ibid., 5-6.<\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> Ibid., 23.<\/p>\n

[4]<\/a> Ibid., 37.<\/p>\n

[5]<\/a> Ibid., 58.<\/p>\n

[6]<\/a> Ibid., 107.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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