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Pastors, Ministry and Tech

Pastors, Ministry and Tech

Posted on 02. Jul, 2011 by .

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A few days ago I was called by Laura McFarland, a news paper reporter, from the Rocky Mount Telegram.  She asked me a very specific question, “How has technology changed the job of a pastor?” I think it is a great question and it took me a few moments to process an answer for her.  [...]

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Using Social Media in Small Groups

Posted on 22. Oct, 2009 by .

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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 [...]

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How To Succeed With Social Media

Posted on 07. Oct, 2009 by .

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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.)  [...]

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25 Things I Hate About Facebook

Posted on 20. Sep, 2009 by .

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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… [...]

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Five Reasons Pastors Should Use Twitter

Posted on 15. Sep, 2009 by .

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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 [...]

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Let The Web Be Your Business Card

Posted on 10. Sep, 2009 by .

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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 [...]

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Is Social Media A Fad?

Posted on 03. Sep, 2009 by .

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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 [...]

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Chasing Twitter Followers

Posted on 26. Aug, 2009 by .

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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. [...]

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Tools To Make Twitter Easier

Posted on 24. Aug, 2009 by .

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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 [...]

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