This week, Facebook announced a bunch of new features for their social network. Probably the biggest change comes for Groups. In the past, Groups had a smaller importance in the grand Facebook scheme. But now Groups could be a great way to share information with selected people within your church with flexible privacy settings. Think of things like prayer lists or worship team groups.
Once you create a group, you can select who’s a part of it. Not just anyone can join. Members in...
Thanks to everyone who came to the two workshop sessions I led last night at the Volunteers in Service Leadership Training Event. I really enjoyed the questions, conversations and heart for ministry you all have.
Here's the slide show I used, although it may seem a little random considering I don't really have notes to accompany it. I just talked. So if you're looking for more detail on each of the topics, download our resource "Website 101: Seven Basics Vital to a Good Site" becasue the...
Facebook recently announced a new feature called Places. It’s joining other services, like Foursquare, that make it easy for you to share were you’re currently hanging out whether it be your favorite coffee house or your friend’s abode. It’s only available to iPhone and iPod Touch users right now, but Facebook says apps for other devises will soon follow.
The premise is simple. You click on the Places icon. Facebook locates you and asks you if you want to “check in.” You check in your...
Recently, Twitter jumped into the easy sharing pool by releasing the official tweet button. Joining the Facebook “like” button, Twitter has made it easy for folks coming to your website to share your stuff on their favorite social media outlets. Here’s a quick intro video from Twitter about the new button.
Twitter has also made it really easy to add the button to a webpage even if you don’t know a lot of code. Through the Twitter website, you can enter some basic information and...
Rhett Smith is a pastor, therapist, blogger and technology savvy guy. During his Echo Conference session, he talked about not letting social media and technology replace your in-person relationships. Here are a few notes.
Family is Rhett's accountability for using new tools. How will using a new technology effect my relationships with my family?
"My vocation is, at each moment, to make the person in front of me the most important person in my life." -Ronald Rolheiser.
Our latest free resource has been posted in the training section. We're taking a look at six things you can do to improve your church communications that won't take a huge time commitment.
This white paper looks at these topics: website auditing, spring cleaning, signage, volunteer training (refresher of church's vision and why it matters), creating a Facebook page and limiting service announcements.
There is no doubt that the brand of the week last week was Old Spice. Following up on a fairly popular commercial campaign, the Old Spice Guy went social, You Tube, Twitter and Facebook style, by responding to people’s questions and comments with short, funny videos. Lots of people, and companies, got involved asking questions. Old Spice Guy even ended up mediating a wedding proposal.
The videos were funny, engaging and popular. Many of the week’s top viewed videos on You...
I was talking with someone the other day tasked with updating their church’s Facebook page. They faced a conundrum many of us probably do -- whether or not it’s okay to block someone from the church’s page.
Here’s the brief background. This particular member of the church is well known for trying to say and do things to get attention. It’s an illness the church has assisted this person to get help for. Lately, this member has been leaving inappropriate comments, some sexual, and others way...
I spent some time last week listening to a presentation from Heather Mansfield of NonProfit Tech 2.0 about Facebook Community Pages. It really showed how complex and confusing Facebook has made them. There is a distinction to make here before we get too deep into this and that’s the difference between Community Pages and regular Facebook Pages.
Community Pages are for causes, campaigns or ideas. Anyone can start and contribute to these pages sort of like Wikipedia.
