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Relationships are an essential part of the Christian life.  To follow Jesus and his teachings means we live in community with God, and community with others.  The challenge we face in our culture is the busyness it creates in people’s lives. The very people that we are called to ministered to, and I believe social [...]

Guy Kawasaki tweeted these tips about the twitter elite and Kem Meyer also recently posted them in a blog post.  The source of the following rules really originated at the 140 Conference and were more focused on twitter but I think you can apply the principles to any form of social media (twitter, blogging, facebook, etc.)  [...]

Ok, so most of my recent posts have revolved around the things I love about social media. How facebook, twitter and other platforms can help us engage our culture in conversation more effectively and enhance the relationships we have with others.  However, it doesn’t mean that there aren’t some things about social media that are COMPLETLY ANNOYING… [...]

Lets face it, most pastors don’t use twitter.  Many never will, and that’s fine but I think there are a some solid reasons why people in ministry should give it a try, so here we go:  1. Sermon Prep / Current events To remain culturally relevant when we preach it requires we stay up to [...]

So, you don’t want to blog and put all the effort into maintaining a website… you don’t have to!  You can keep things really simple and still maintain a web presence to create a vehicle for people to stay in touch with you.  John Saddington recently helped someone develop a wordpress theme that basically acts [...]

Social media is not a fad.  It is a new form of communication.  It provides faster and increasingly more relevant means of communication that are becoming more and more seamless with everyday living. – If 96% of Gen-Y has joined a social network… social media is not a fad. – If social media has kicked [...]

While having a high amount of followers on twitter is like a status symbol in recent months, I think its over rated.  Sure, I could look at John Maxwell and be envious of the fact that he has 40,000+ followers, but is it really meaningful? Not really.  What’s meaningful is what I can learn from John Maxwell. [...]

For those of you that are fairly new to the tweetolution, and have jumped onto twitter more recently, here are some great tools and applications that can make using twitter faster, more friendly, and fun: Tweetdeck – by far my favorite twitter tool for my PC.  It allows me to group the people I follow to [...]

Your church should be on facebook. Plain and simple. Just in 2009 facebook has grown 276% in users aging from 35-54 (reported here) so you can’t ignore this communication tool. 1. Effective Communication – People are already using it. One challenge that we constantly face in ministry is the competition for people’s attention.  I think [...]

I have been having a ton of conversations about social media in recent weeks and I recently listened to a webinar that got me thinking further about our need to merge social media and ministry. Conference calls, staff discussions, breakfast meetings, have all caused me to finally get some of my thoughts down in a blog post. [...]