Cory Miller has surveyed a group of bloggers that subscribe to Pastors.com for his 2007 Christian Blogging Survey. Miller is a Church Communications Director from Oklahoma. He sent out his request to bloggers January 7, 2007, and closed off entries January 31st.
A list of the blogs he surveyed is here.
Because he solicted his 367 bloggers through a professional newsletter his results aren’t surprising. He asked blog platform, gender, number of posts a month, length of time blogging, age and profession. For some reason I’m unable to get call up Pastors.com. where he initially published his findings.
Gender
- 84.2% Male
- 10.4% Female
- 5.4% no answer
Ministry Role
- 34.9% Senior Pastors
- 21.0% Associate Pastor/Minister
- 18.3% Layperson/Church Member
- 11.4% Church Staff
- 14.4% other/no answer
Good to see people continuing to work on mapping out faith blogs.
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Bene,
Maybe he should have included another category, such as “closet homosexual”. Then the clergy would have been truly represented.
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I have to cut him a lot of slack - he basically targeted professional US evangelicals, and did so to the best of his ability.
It may be just one more list religious spammers can hit for their advertising and products, I wasn’t able to find his reasons for his efforts. Ministers and priests already get more than their share of spam.
Blog surveying is hard work, and even though faith blogs make up (last time I checked) about 1 to 3 percent of blogs, I think it will now take a professional research company to give us a reasonable snapshot of ‘god blogs’ in 2007 and beyond.
Don’t fault them for not representing non-clergy bloggers. The initial purpose was to hear primarily from pastors and other church leaders. The survey also was publicized through Pastors.com’s newsletter, Rick Warren’s Ministry ToolBox. There was a companion article on using blogs in a church setting.
Other research is needed, for sure. It just wasn’t the purpose of this survey.
And, no, the list of respondents isn’t being used for commercial purposes.
I’m not faulting them Mark, what was the purpose of this survey?
I believe if you say the list isn’t being used by the solitictors, that’s fair. The fact it is published online means the spammers have already scrapped it.