The Social Media Club, a project of the non-profit BrainJams organization has a very interesting site and some admirable projects in the hopper.

The Social Media Club states that they are:

…organized for the purpose of sharing best practices, establishing ethics and standards, and promoting media literacy around the emerging area of Social Media.

I am particularly interested in their Adopt A Blogger project. In regard to the project they state:

The idea came from our discussions with BrainJams in New Orleans – to formalize some practices in which many bloggers are already engaged – to help people who don’t know about blogging to learn how and make the most of the tools.

This is particularly important for those of us who are among the leaders in representing underrepresented Churches in the social media sphere.

You can easily count the number of Orthodox (Eastern, Western, and Oriental) as well as PNCC social media sites on the web.

It is my feeling; a feeling echoed by others, that we need to bring along faith bloggers, most especially the young who are strong witnesses to orthodox faith. We need to teach them about responsible communication (versus polemics, sophistry, or demogogary), good web design, good web ethics, and proper standards.

It looks like a great project, one I would love to lead, at least in our Church. Faith, witness, ethics, apologetics, and technology for all. That’s at the core of responsible Christian social networking. Web 2.2 here we come…