Category: social media
whether to connect Twitter to Facebook or not
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2 social networks dominate the new media landscape at this point in history — Facebook and Twitter. At the time of this writing, Facebook has 800+ million active users and Twitter has 100+ million active users. Many of you, like me, use both Twitter and Facebook. But given the disparity in numbers, many more are on…
List of Christian podcasts that aren’t sermons
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Recently I’ve been looking for podcasts to subscribe to for my commute time. I’m most interested in the intersection of social and spiritual things, aka people & relationships, which isn’t as popular as topics like technology or cooking or celebrity gossip. In the Christian podcasting world, most podcasts are sermons or teachings or devotionals or…
How to get a custom welcome page for Facebook
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Getting a custom welcome landing page (aka welcome tab) to invite someone to Like a Facebook Page has become a popular tactic for businesses and organizations to build its audience. While there is Facebook Developer documentation online that has a Page Tab tutorial, I don’t find it plain and simple to use. Here are template-driven…
Being First on Twitter in the OC
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Thanks to ksablan (Kevin Sablan) for noticing my earliest adoption of Twitter. (Granted, back in July 2006 when I signed up for Twitter, I was a resident in the metro DC area and not in the OC, I have lived in the OC since July 2007.) See the top 100 list of who “joined twitter…
From Social Media Potential to Mastery
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These are my slides from my breakout session at Sticky Teams 2.0 Oct 24-25. Thanks to North Coast Training Network for hosting this incredible conference for like 750+ church leaders and inviting me to be a part of it! And, I’ll be adding other links and websites mentioned in the breakout here. Mark Driscoll http://pastormark.tv,…
Go to conferences with a team to get the most value
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Being a conference junkie and having gone a few rounds with ’em, my top-of-mind advice is to go to a conference with a team & don’t go to a conference alone. There’s so much more value to attending the conference together so you get that team-building value, time to be off-site, time to gain perspective…
Get a social media strategy day for your church
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One of the things I’m doing now is facilitating a social media strategy day for a church’s leadership team. Thanks to this interview with Dave Travis of Leadership Network, you can get a snapshot of what I can do for a church. Here’s an excerpt: Dave: I think everyone knows that Social Media is of…
The need for Context and Voice. new eBook.
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This is a conversation I want to engage. And Vince Marotte has fired the first shot. It won’t be the last. The church has a big glaring communication problem and Vince calls it out with his first eBook, Context and Voice: Communication Design in our New Media Culture. Vince describes the problem this way in…
top church pages on Facebook in 2011
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Who are the churches that are good examples of using Facebook and social media well? [update] I’ve updated this list over at SocialMediaChurch.net == top churches on Facebook with the most likes updated in real-time Before we dive in, there are different metrics for success and there are different ways of using social media, so…
connecting with multiethnic church bloggers
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Looking for active bloggers who are multiethnic church leaders? Why blogs and bloggers? Because they’re most findable via search engines, more sharable with many people on the open internet over a longer period of time, and they [potentially] can say a lot more than a tweet or status update. In other words, conversations build relationships…
