Category: social media
my Social Media Cram Session
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Today I’m talking about the strategic use of social media with pastors, leaders, and seminarians at a luncheon introducing the new Asian-American D.Min. program at Talbot Seminary. I’m honored to be included as part of the cohort’s team along with Dr. Ben Shin, Rev. Cory Ishida (Evergreen Baptist Church of San Gabriel Valley), Dr. Sheryl…
How to keep social media from being a distraction
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All too often I hear people complain about how distracting social media is. That’s not a fair comment, because there are far greater distractions like interruptions of a phone call or a person that stops by your desk (office, or cubicle), and wouldn’t you know it, that happens right when you’re getting traction on your…
Most popular Facebook pages of churches and ministries 2012
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See the list of the most popular Facebook pages of churches and ministries with the most likes at SocialMedia.Church
Why church planters must use social media
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I’m meeting up with a group of church planters in downtown Long Beach, California, and talking about social media in 17 minutes. That’s 1 minute short of an iconic TED talk. And the schedule has room for 17 minutes of Q&A to follow my color commentary about social media and church planting.With this being a…
Lip Dub Video for the City of Aliso Viejo
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I live in Aliso Viejo, California, and there’s over 48,000 residents here. A big community event happened on Sunday, August 18th, where more than 1,300 people participated for a city promo video called The City of Aliso Viejo’s Lip Dub :: The potentially-viral video was produced by PeopleStar FilmWorks, a new production company founded by…
10,000 reasons for the popularity of Gangnam style
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What’s up with this crazy wild viral popularity of PSY and Gangnam style? Are millions being entertained because they’re laughing at Psy or laughing withPsy? What’s struck the nerve? First on YouTube, then appearances on mainstream media on the likes of Saturday Night Live (9/15), TODAY show (9/14), The Ellen Show (9/10), MTV Video Music Awards (9/6), has…
8 easy to use group video chat web apps
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Here’s 8 web apps I’ve found to quickly and easily connect over a group video chat. You’d think with the internet maturing that there’d be more options for web-based no-download no-frills multi-user video conferencing. Granted, multi-point more-than-two livestreamed-duplex video feeds does raise the degree of technical difficulty exponentially. Of these free web apps, some are…
Social Media Church launched
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I stayed up late and launched a new podcast http://socialmediachurch.net/ for conversations with church leaders about social media! Click over and give it a listen and add a comment
download all your flickr photos or how to migrate them
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Once popular photo-sharing social-network site flickr hasn’t kept up with the latest developing innovations where the pace is set by the likes of instagram, Google+ photos, Facebook, even with Flickr’s past 3 months of upgrades. I will say this: Flickr is still the most fertile place to find Creative Commons photos. (Any contenders?) How can…
new book Platform by Michael Hyatt
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Launching this week, the new book Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World is hands down the best book I’ve ever seen about blogging and social media! I’ve been swimming in this world of blogging for over 12 years, before it was called that, and have seen a good number of books about the amazing…
a List of Churches on Pinterest
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While there are articles (here, here, here, here, there) that give great ideas for how a church could be using Pinterest, right now it’s kinda elusive to find churches actually actively using Pinterest. Aside: I myself have 624 pins and my dear wife has over 2,127 pins. Here’s a list of churches on Pinterest I’d…
Lessons from YouTube Channels Making Money
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YouTube has become quite the pop culture shaper and launched a little cottage industry for thousands. I’d anticipate that will only continue to grow. That’s entertainment! Wired magazine recently featured a dozen or so Partners in The YouTube Laugh Factory: A Studio System for Viral Video (December 2011) and distilled these 5 rules for getting noticed according to…