Blogging Christian Youth Workers Survey

1. Name (full name or a pseudonym you use in the blogging world)

2. Gender

3. Blogname

4. Blogaddress

5. Email Address

6. Location (State/Province and Country)

7. Type of Church (Denomination) or other youth/young adults organization you are involved with:

8. What is your position title (i.e. Youth Pastor, Youth Director, Youth Sponsor, Volunteer Leader, etc)?

9. If you work with a church group, how many attend the church as a whole and how many attend youth group? If you work for another organization, how many youth do you work with?

10. What do your duties include?

11. What are the ages you work with?

12. For how long have you been doing youthwork? Please indicate years as a volunteer and years professionally, whichever applies:

13. When did you begin blogging (date)?

14. Who would you say your blog's audience is?

15. Why do you blog?

16. Do you dialog with other youth/young adult workers on a regular basis via blogging? If yes, do you also use other internet methods (i.e. instant messenger, email, etc) to communicate with them? If so, how?

17. Do you regularly read the blogs of any other youth workers? If so, approximately how many?

18. Has blogging encouraged you or facilitated you in youth ministry, and if so, how?

19. Are you aware of whether or not any of the youth/young adults you work with also blog? If some do, approximately how many are you aware of? Do you visit their blogs regularly?

20. Are any of the youth you work with aware that you blog? Do any frequent your blog on a regular basis? If so, approximately how many?

21. Do you communicate with any youth via instant messenger? If yes, how many and approximately how often?

22. Do you include any of your youth and/or other adolescents on your blogroll? If yes, how many?

23. Do you regularly visit the blogs of any adolescents, whether you work with them or not? If yes, please elaborate.

24. Any other thoughts on blogging and youth ministry, adolescents online, or general comments you have may be left here:

25. May I link you on my site as a thank you for participating in this survey?