Jonathan Wilson

I work for the CRC's Communication office as the Online Community and Content Manager. The majority of my role will be right here on The Network with some work with The Banner and social media in general. So I guess my role is to highlight CRCNA content FTW (Facebook, Twitter and Web). I grew up in Chicago, IL (Go Bears) and but now live in West Michigan. My wife Kelley and I have two children: Javen (6) and Kendall (3).

My favorite colors are red and blue and orange

Posted in: Introducing A New Guide

Welcome Norman.

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Posted in: Platitudes: Translated

Anje and Mark,

Thanks for referencing and sharing to the "Welcome to Holland" story. I feel I have gained some insight.

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Posted in: More Free Mugs (if you're subscribed)

Thanks Geri. We love hearing that The Network is a benefit to folks.

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Posted in: Christian - Muslim Dialogue

Michael,

First thanks for noticing the image. We add images to enhance the blogs and draw in the readers to read them. It's nice to know that the images are noticed.

In order to be the good stewards of ministry shares nearly all of the images we add come from Creative Commons images on Flickr. Here is a link to the original image on Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nedtrifle/6442505197/

For this particular blog I wanted to focus on symbols that represent both Christians and Muslims faiths, because of the topic of the blog.

Thank you again for your comment.

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Posted in: Teen Dating Violence: What Church Leaders Need to Know

Thank you for this useful information Rachel.

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Posted in: Facebook Graph Search

Jerod,

I recently had Graph Search enabled for my Facebook account and I would have to agree about one of the issues of Graph Search is a concern about privacy.

Based off a couple of searches I was able to do find people who liked a fan page that I also liked but I could also refine it down to people who I was not Facebook friends with.

Some of these people and I had mutual friends but for some we did not share any mutual friends In essence they were complete strangers and the only connection we had is that we liked the same fan page on Facebook. Previously I could go to a page I liked and only see the my friends who like the same page. With Graph Search this ability seems to be expanded to everyone who likes a particular page.

Perhaps there was a way to find this info before but it does seem easier now with Graph Search. I'm not sure if this is a net positive or net negative thing. There is a greater "discovery" aspect to Facebook now with Graph Search. As you mentioned it all depends on your Facebook user settings, but I think this is opens up a new area privacy concerns that did not previously exist and the majority of people will not be aware of it..

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Posted in: A Sad Day for People with Disabilities

As a reminder please keep the discussion on topic. While the original post does deal with the U.S. Senate's response to a UN treaty; comments about the U. N. in general or other aspects of the U.N. may be removed if seen as as off topic.

- Jonathan Wilson, Network Community Manager

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Posted in: Building Adult Discipleship Systems Across a Congregation