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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.)  [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 had quite a few people in my circle of friends recently ask me about twitter. Social media tools have been getting quite a bit of attention lately and the popularity of twitter is on the rise. Most of my conversations have revolved around why I use the service. So here is a quick [...]