Nils Smith is Innovation Pastor at Community Bible Church (San Antonio, TX) and its online campus OnlineChurch.com. Nils stops by the Social Media Church podcast to talk about creating online worship experiences specifically and exclusively for their online campus, how they do ministry effectively on Facebook, why they allow online members, the incredible ministry opportunity for online church, the launching of OnlineChurchLeaders.com, and more.
Show Notes
OnlineChurchLeaders.com – an upcoming network for free resources to launching and running an online church
Connect with Nils Smith on Twitter @NilsSmith + his blog NilsSmith.com
#podcast Episode 2: Social Media Church with Nils Smith
#book The Social Media Guide for Ministry: What it is and How to use it by Nils Smith
Wes O’Haire is a web/ux designer by day and an active member at Higher Vision Church (Valencia, California). Wes launched a blog for online church campuses at LiveCampus.io to share resources and insights he found about doing ministry online. On this episode of Social Media Church, he shares about how his church uses social media, his church’s online campus, and anticipating how ministry must change when there’s more people online than in-person.
Show Notes
Connect with Wes O’Haire on Twitter @LiveCampusIO and @wesohaire
LiveCampus.io – The Blog For Online Church Campuses
see the website of Higher Vision Church and how it puts the most frequently used church info at the upper right corner of its web pages = social links, phone number, location, service times
Take a look at High Vision’s Facebook photo stream for great examples and inspiration
Jed Davis is an avid blogger that I found serendipitously while making my rounds on the blogosphere. What caught my attention was his free eBook titled “The Social Media Guide for Churches: What You Need to Know and Why You Need to Know It”. We connected up and had a quick conversation on this episode of Social Media Church, about his eBook, his work as a church consultant, and how he manages social media.
Show Notes
Connect with Jed Davis on Twitter @thisjed + Facebook facebook.com/thisjed
+ blog thisjed.com
#ebook The Social Media Guide for Churches: What You Need to Know and Why You Need to Know It #free
#blog #post Let’s Take A Look Behind My Motives
Peter McGowan (of Media Social and Plain Joe Studios) sat down with DJ Chuang for an lively conversation about church and culture on this episode of Social Media Church. We covered topics like stewardship, creativity, storytelling, social media engagement, online church, innovation, divergent thinking, long-term projects, leading culture, the human condition, and much more. This is the most important anddisruptive episode ever recorded to date.
Announcement: This episode marks a special occasion as Social Media Church launches its new partnership with Leadership Network to cross-post these conversations with church leaders about social media at the Leadership Network blog! Thank you Leadership Network for lending your platform to spread the innovative ideas emanating from the conversations here at the Social Media Church podcast. And a warm welcome to all the new listeners!
Show Notes
Connect with Peter McGowan at fb.com/plainjoe
Plain Joe Studios – communication design group experienced in strategic ideation, interactive media, and environmental design
Media Social – a Facebook App that provides a broadcast social TV Channel through the internet
OnlineChurch.com, the Internet campus of Community Bible Church (San Antonio, Texas), powered by MediaSocial.tv
Online Campus of Granger Community Church (Granger, Indiana), powered by MediaSocial.tv
#article Lego Boosts Sales And Brand Loyalty With Revamped Marketing Strategy (going from $1 billion in debt to $14.6 billion in a decade)
Van Baird launched Relational Equity to help cultivate meaningful relationships through social media, though he’d prefer to use the word media instead of social media. He explains why on this episode of Social Media Church; we also talk about how to listen well, show love, and tips for launching a podcast.
Show Notes
Connect with Van Baird on Twitter @vanbaird
Van Baird’s podcast is recorded on internet radio businessradiox.com + the show is called Emerging Enterprise + the first episode is posted
March 13th (2014) in Atlanta GA – SocialEcclesia micro-conference is a one-day event where church leaders “will learn best practices, balance, strategy and how to fully utilize modern tools which can be used to advance our mission in Christ” – follow their tweets #SocialEcclesia
#video Another Perspective on #Ashtag Selfies – Matt Kilmurry of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)’s Department of Communications
#article Questions and answers about Ash Wednesday (RNS)
Ashes To Go ashestogo.org – taking worship to the streets
Kent Shaffer is the founder of ChurchRelevance.com and OpenChurch.com. Kent met up with me (DJ Chuang) in-person during his road trip through Orange County, California and we sat down to talk about how he got into social media, his spiritual life and dynamic journey in recent years, going from LifeChurch.tv to an inner city missional community, his nomadic lifestyle with a young family on the road in an RV, how to best understand the top churches lists that he curates, how sermons are like lifehacks, church communications, and of course we talk about how churches are using social media.
Show Notes
Connect with Kent Shaffer on Facebook facebook.com/kentshaffer + LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/kentshaffer
ChurchRelevance.com (resources and lists for creating relevant & effective ministries)
OpenChurch.com – free downloadable resources + ideas from the global church, helping disciples of Jesus collaborate, learn from each other, and share resources
#list Top 200 Ministry Blogs (as of 9/2013), in which DJ Chuang is #83
#list Top Ranked Churches in America (in the areas of church growth, size, innovation, church planting, influence, and overall)
#list 108 Great Church Logos
#list 40 Great Church Websites of 2013
Church Conference Calendar List (@ churchrelevance.com)
The Big List of Theological Seminaries, with sortable info by denomination, tuition cost, and location
Clint Schnekloth wrote this new book titled, “Mediating Faith: Faith Formation in a Trans-media Era“, and is lead pastor at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church (Fayetteville, Arkansas). He joined the Social Media Church podcast for a conversation about the back story of his new book, how social media is used in his church community, and his experience of joining others for worship in the virtual world of Second Life, and, of course, we do talk about the book too.
Show Notes
Connect with Clint Schnekloth at http://ClintSchnekloth.com + on Twitter @Schnekloth + on Facebook fb.com/Schnekloth+ his blog http://lutheranconfessions.blogspot.com
#post 11 Reasons I’m Proud to Pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
#transcript Interview — Mediating Faith: Faith Formation in a Trans-media Era by Clint Schnekloth on the #chsocm blog by Meredith Gould
#podcast Meredith Gould of #ChSocM : Episode 30 @ Social Media Church
#video Interview with Clint by Abigail Letsinger
#interview Fortress Press Author Q&A for Mediating Faith
#meme #bookselfies #mediatingfaith – photos of people with the Mediating Faith book
Social Media Church has a lively conversation with Justin Wise, author of a brand new book, The Social Church: A Theology of Digital Communication, just released 1 week ago and the print edition was already sold out on day 1 and it is still temporarily out of stock. But good thing the Kindle edition never runs out and you can buy it instantly! Get the back story of how the authoring and publishing experience went for Justin, how they decided to focus the book’s big idea on the “why to” rather than the “how to”, how Justin is training and coaching churches and entrepreneurs to be more effective with social media, and listen for the special offer for Social Media Church listeners. By the way, Justin Wise is currently a professional social media strategist, based in Des Moines, Iowa, a city that he’s very proud of.
Show Notes
Connect with Justin Wise at justinwise.net and on Twitter @JustinWise
#podcast Justin Wise: Episode 33 of Social Media Church (prequel to authoring the book) goodies from Justin Wise:
#video [raw recording session] Google+ Hangout on Air with Justin Wise for this very episode
#video #SocialChurchBook Hangout – book launch day Google+ Hangout with Justin Wise and Clark Campbell
#post Vision is Viral: Talking Social Media & Church with Justin Wise (churchmarketingsucks.com)
#review of The Social Church – Kevin Hendricks (churchmarketingsucks.com)
#post Social Media: Another Greeter for Your Church by Jane Halton
#mentioned Scott Stratten @unmarketing of unmarketing.com
On this special episode of the Social Media Church podcast, listen to keen insights from Brandon Cox — church planter, social media enthusiast, and author of a new book, REWIRED: How Using Today’s Technology Can Bring You Back to Deeper Relationships, Real Conversations, and Powerful Ways to Share God’s Love. Recorded before a live online audience via Google+ Hangout on Air.
Show Notes
Brandon Cox is Pastor of Grace Hills Church in northwest Arkansas
Connect with Brandon Cox on Twitter @brandonacox + on Facebook facebook.com/pastorbrandoncox +brandonacox.com
#book Rewired: How Using Today’s Technology Can Bring You Back to Deeper Relationships, Real Conversations, and Powerful Ways to Share God’s Love by Brandon Cox
Rewired book website is rewiredbook.com + on Facebook facebook.com/rewiredbook + on Twitter @RewiredBook
#list The Ultimate List of Social Media Policies for Churches & Ministries #resource
#book The Social Church: A Theology of Digital Communication by Justin Wise #mentioned
Social media management dashboards #mentioned: Buffer, Hootsuite, Tweetdeck
Mei Ling Starkey is the Media Relations/Social Media Director at The Rock Church in San Diego, California, founded & led by Pastor Miles McPherson. She connected with us on the Social Media Church podcast while en route between one thing and another; we talk about Rock Church’s approach to communicating through social media, how to integrate volunteers into the flow of their church’s social media, engaging people on their online campus, a newly-launched video devotional app, and more.
Show Notes
Connect with Mei Ling Starkey on Twitter @mlstarkey
The Rock Church is on Twitter @therocksandiego, Facebook fb.com/therocksandiego, Instagram instagram.com/therocksandiego, YouTube youtube.com/therocksandiego
Rock Live – Watch The Rock Church services live online
Miles A Minute – The 60 Second Daily Video Devotional app – Every day for a year with Miles McPherson
#new Real-time dashboard of the most popular church Facebook pages
DJ Chuang pontificates on where to get content for feeding social media, Christian podcasts produced for podcast listeners, and what every church website needs to make plain and simple. More importantly, he wants to hear from you! Call 949-354-3216 and leave a message with your feedback or email me@socialmediachurch.net with your burning question.
Show Notes
#blog post by Josh Burns – Your Church’s Problem in Social Media
Josh Burns was featured on Episode 21 of Social Media Church; Josh is Director of Web & Social Media at Park Community Church (Chicago, IL)
browse the Christian Podcast Directory at SocialMediaChurch.net
Pete Mitchell and Peyton Jones together publish the Church Planter Magazine and host the Church Planter podcast – both are great resources by church planters for church planters. How they do all that they do I don’t know, but they made time to talk for this episode of Social Media Church podcast, and how social media and texting work for church plants and connecting with the next generation.
Show Notes
Read + Subscribe to Church Planter Magazine, a free digital publication, and the Church Planter podcast
Connect with Pete Mitchell on Twitter Bustoutbigguns (Pete Mitchell is the Chief Marketing Mercenary at Big Guns Marketing) and publisher of the Church Planter Magazine and the Church Planter podcast
Connect with Peyton Jones on Twitter @PeytonJonesPunk (Peyton Jones is team leader of Refuge Long Beach and founding coach ofNew Breed Church Planting UK/USA. He also authored the book Church Zero: Raising 1st Century Churches out of the Ashes of the 21st Century Church.)
#church Refuge Long Beach on web refugelongbeach.com, on Twitter @RefugeLongBeach, on Facebookfacebook.com/RefugeLongBeach
#video raw recording of this video conversation – this extended recording also includes Peyton’s answer to the question “So who is Jesus Christ? Is He the son of God or is he God in the flesh?” and the recording for Church Planter Podcast episode #34: the one about social media with DJ Chuang
#article Why church planters must use social media by DJ Chuang
Jason Curlee is a campus pastor at Bay Area Fellowship (Corpus Christi, TX) at their Kingsville Campus and also launching out as a social media coach to train church leaders & small businesses to use social media more effectively. On this episode of Social Media Church, hear how their church is using social media, how he reached over 1 million impressions in a week, and listen for an exclusive $20 discount for one of his online courses, just for Social Media Church listeners. According to Jason’s bio, “With over 7,000 followers on his twitter, to over 100,000 views on his youtube account, to 2,500 friends on his personal facebook, he’s learned how to utilize various social media platforms to help others achieve the life they dream.”
Show Notes
Connect with Jason Curlee on Twitter @jasoncurlee + his blog jasoncurlee.me
Take a look at his campus’ Facebook page facebook.com/bafkingsville and his church’s Facebook page facebook.com/bafchurch to see how they post engaging content
#article Can The Church and Social Media Exist Together by Jason Curlee
Jason Curlee’s Facebook Boot Camp (14-day online course + coaching) and Social Media Boot Camp To Startup Your Business (28-day online course + coaching)
#video raw recording of DJ Chuang’s conversation with Jason Curlee, via Google+ Hangout on Air