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Tribes: A Group Blogging Project – #Tribes

Posted by John Saddington on Apr 13, 2009

The name “Seth Godin” is pretty much a household name, and his book, “Tribes“, has been a smashing success, challenging and changing the way we think about and use online technology and social media.

Although his knowledge and wisdom was once more well known in the enterprise, high tech, large business and silicon-valley landscapes, his practices, thoughts, and methods of creating community are nearly universal, and he has begun to appear in more ministry and evangelical circles over the last year or so.

If you want more information about Seth, check out his blog, this interview at Catalyst, or just Google “seth”.

As a result I’ve decided to create a Group Blogging Project where a number of other interested bloggers and I could develop a little “tribe” ourselves as we walk through the book together.

Overview:

We’ll be “Group Blogging” the book Tribes by Seth Godin. Many of the participants got their free copy from a Catalyst West Giveaway: (http://churchcrunch.com/2009/02/18/free-book-from-catalyst-west-group-blogging-project/).

Essentially, we’ll be taking turns “Leading the Conversation” on our own blogs about particular “chapters.” For the sake of everyone involved, I’ve assigned the “chapters” for organizational purposes (and since there are really no “chapters” anyways).

Nearly 30 people signed up to participate and we’ll take turns leading the group through discussion via their blogs on select days and over selected pages of the actual book.

In this way, the tribal knowledge of the collective will pour into the blogosphere.

Purpose:

The purpose of this Group Blog Project is to mutually encourage each other to use some of Seth Godin’s wise advice and thoughts so that we may more adequately and effectively lead our own “personal tribes” online. We all have a tribe, we’re all part of one (or two or three…) and we want to be the best “leaders” we can possibly be.

Goal:

My hope is that collectively we can come away knowing more about ourselves and about managing, developing, and creating digital tribes online. I also hope that we can use this opportunity to network with others.

Also, I’ve talked with a bunch of interested people who may be willing to publish our collective results into an e-Book…! This would also be quite fun!

The Participants, Blogs, Dates, and Coverage:

Make sure to use the #Tribes hashtag when using Twitter!

Name:Blog:Pages Covered:Date:
John Saddingtonhttp://churchcrunch.com1,54/13/09
Billy Johnsonhttp://thekidpreacher.wordpress.com6,124/14/09
Eric Murrellhttp://www.mediasalt.com12,164/15/09
Give Love Coffeehttp://moonmonkeycoffeecompany.blogspot.com16,204/16/09
Norman Tumlinsonhttp://www.notablyboring.blogspot.com21,264/17/09
Paul Steinbrueckhttp://www.LiveIntentionally.org26, 304/18/09
Kevin Martineauhttp://kevinmartineau.blogspot.com30, 354/20/09
Dawn Nicole Baldwinhttp://dawnnicolebaldwin.typepad.com/35, 394/21/09
Dawn Carterhttp://decarter.wordpress.com40,454/22/09
Jathaniel Cavitthttp://www.jathaniel.com45, 514/23/09
Chris Downshttp://christglass.chrisdownsonline.com51, 55,4/24/09
David Normanhttp://www.davidnormanblog.com55, 594/25/09
Larryhttp://man4god.wordpress.com60,644/27/09
Phillip Gibbhttp://synapticlight.com65, 704/28/09
Phil and Amyhttp://philnamy.com70, 764/29/09
Bobby Shirleyhttp://keeperofthesound.com76, 814/30/09
Susan Stewarthttp://www.blogsofbooks.com82,865/1/09
Brad Singletonhttp://bradfordsingleton.com86, 915/2/09
Mike henryhttp://www.mikehenrysr.com91, 965/4/09
Andy Darnellhttp://www.andydarnell.com96, 1015/5/09
Santos Samayoahttp://1gxperience.blogspot.com/101, 1055/6/09
Luke DeMosshttp://www.lukedemossblog.com105, 1105/7/09
Kevin Gilberthttp://digidsolutions.com110, 1175/8/09
Jason Jeonghttp://www.jasonjeong.com117, 1205/9/09
Adam Herodhttp://mergeworship.com121, 1255/11/09
Gavin Bakerhttp://gbake.com125, 1315/12/09
Cleve Persingerhttp://www.mediasalt.com131, 1355/13/09
Adam Shieldshttp://mrshields.com/135, 1405/14/09
John Gruberhttp://johngruber.us140, 1475/15/09
John Saddingtonhttp://churchcrunch.com5/16/09
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John Saddington

John is the Chief Editor @ The 8BIT Network and Senior Blog Junkie here at ChurchCrunch.He enjoys Triple-Tall Americanos, developing Wordpress Themes, and a few other Random Things.

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29 Responses to “Tribes: A Group Blogging Project – #Tribes”

  1. PaulDz
    Monday, April 13, 2009 at 2:16 pm

    sounds like fun. How can I get involved?

    Reply
  2. Phillip Gibb
    Monday, April 13, 2009 at 5:11 pm

    This is truly a great opportunity to apart of something important.
    Looking forward to this.

    Phill

    Reply
  3. ntumlinson315
    Monday, April 13, 2009 at 5:24 pm

    Stoked about this John! Really excited about the collective insight that is going to come about through this experiment! big w00t for putting it together!

    Reply
    • human3rror
      Monday, April 13, 2009 at 5:45 pm

      Thanks Norm! Should be good times.

      Reply
  4. Graham Brenna
    Monday, April 13, 2009 at 8:00 pm

    Sweet! I need to order this book yesterday it seems… haha

    Reply
  5. Jim
    Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 3:18 pm

    yikes, that's some batting lineup!

    Reply
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