What the Plus by Guy Kawasaki
Sponsor: Social Media Made Easy
The resource by Jay Kranda will help any non-profit, charity, and/or church help launch an inexpensive online marketing presence for their organization
In this episode Nils Smith and Jay Kranda talk with Ben Farr of Saddleback Church about user experience and church leaders should be doing differently with technology. Learn more about Ben Farr’s new project called...
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Jay and Nils are joined by Kenny Jahng again in this episode as they pick Kenny’s brain on the value of Press Releases in your Social Media strategy. Traditional media outlets continue to have significant...
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In this Special Edition Podcast Nils Smith interviews Dr. Steve Grcevich about Disability Ministry and Social Media. Steve shares out of his expertise as a Physician who specializes in Child Pshychiatry along with his leadership...
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In this conversation Nils and Jay are joined by Liquid Church’s Church Online Pastor, Kenny Jahng. Kenny debates Jay on the real meaning of Online Church and we discuss the differences between live streaming, On-Demand...
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This week on the Social Media Church podcast Nils Smith and Jay Kranda talk with Nick Ovalle about Video Tips & Tricks. Nick Ovalle serves as the Social Media Manager at Community Bible Church in...
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This week on the Social Media Church podcast Nils Smith and Jay Kranda talk about Hashtags.
Show Notes:
– Social media lessons learned from Super Bowl XLIX http://www.cnbc.com/id/102390462
– Start using #SMCpodcast
In this episode Nils Smith introduces the new co-host of the Social Media Church podcast, Jay Kranda. Jay is the Online Campus Pastor at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, CA and author of Social Media Made Easy.
Show Notes:
– Connect with Jay on JayKranda.com
– Visit the Online Campus at Saddleback: http://saddleback.com/visit/locations/onlinecampus
– Check out Jay’s book at SocialMediaMadeEasy.tv
In this episode DJ Chuang reflects on the past 108 episodes and passes the baton to the new host of the Social Media Church Podcast. DJ shares some of his highlights from the podcast as well as some of the things he will be focusing his time on in the coming season.
Show Notes:
Connect with DJ on his website at http://DJChuang.com and on Twitter @DJChuang
Learn more about the .Bible TLD at http://bibletld.org/
Marcus Cylar worked on an interesting research project titled “Building Community Through Social Media to Tackle Pastoral Burnout” for his Doctor of Ministry dissertation at Ecumenical Theological Seminary in Detroit, Michigan. On this episode of Social Media Church, we glean from his learnings from this research project about online community.
Show Notes
Connect with Marcus Cylar at marcusacylar.com + @pastorcylar on Twitter
Project e-book: http://cylar.me/1vltYh7
Project website: http://community.cylarconsulting.com
Dissertation abstract: http://cylar.me/1vluc81
Defense slides: http://marcusacylar.com/defense
Social Media Church host DJ Chuang sits down with his 17-year old son Jeremiah to pick his brains about what it’s like to grow up in a world that’s always had the Internet, how he uses social media, and what insights he has about being a part of the a millennial generation. Yes, let’s actually listen to a millennial personally describe the millennial generation that’s so often talked about in mainstream media but not yet understood.
Show Notes
Listen to what Josh Burns has learned in 4+ years at Park Community Church (Chicago) as director of social media and what he’s cooking up at the Social Church Academy with Think Digital. He talks about the key steps for how your church can build its social media strategy.
Josh is the Marketing Manager of Social Church Academy, an online resource designed to help churches grow their social media presence. Each month, members receive the resources, tools and access to expert interviews they need in order to grow their church with social media. For our friends at Social Media Church Podcast, get a discount on the already discounted charter offer by using the code: DJ ~ this code expires on January 2. Click here to become a member today. Merry Christmas!
Show Notes
Connect with Josh Burno on Twitter @jburno + socialchurch.co
Previous episodes of Social Media Church with Justin Wise: Episode 74 + Episode 33
This episode of Social Media Church features a conversation with Adam Graber, a blogger at The Second Eclectic, with a tagline of: “Technology changes how we relate to God and each other.” Listen in for how social media changes how we relate to God and each other.
Show Notes
Connect with Adam Graber @AdamGraber on Twitter + Blog thesecondeclectic.com
#ebook: From Pews to Podcasts: What Technology Wants for the Church – .. how church pews were 14th-century social media
other #articles by Adam Graber
- How Cars Created the Megachurch: And put churchgoers in the driver’s seat (Christianity Today’s Leadership Journal’s PARSE)
- Is technology shaping the future of church?
- The “Offline” Debate: Finding the Same Register – with the advent of the Internet, “offline” has become a new category of perception and experience
- Love Letters and the Unabomber – “Can technology be redeemed?”
Candlelight at Disneyland fan page (@ djchuang.com)
Doug Pagitt has had quite a faith journey, from no faith to megachurch, from emergent church to missional community (though he might say being emergent is being missional, though others may not). Currently, Doug Pagitt is the national director of the Cana Initiative and Doug is the founding pastor of Solomon’s Porch (Minneapolis, Minnesota). On this episode of Social Media Church, we meander through multiple layers of conversations about how social media might have played a role in his theological explorations. This is the most fascinating circuitous conversations we’ve had to date and you’re guaranteed to hear something you’ll disagree with; I know I did 
Or your money back.
Show Notes
Connect with Doug Pagitt on Twitter @pagitt + web dougpagitt.com + on Facebook fb.com/pagitt.doug
#book Flipped: The Provocative Truth That Changes Everything We Know About God by Doug Pagitt (releasing in February 2015)
7 other books by Doug Pagitt, including A Emergent Manifesto of Hope, Church in the Inventive Age, A Christianity Worth Believing
#video raw recording of this conversation – Doug Pagitt with DJ Chuang
The Nines online conference – hosted by Leadership Network
Stephen Morrissey blogs and podcasts at ChurchWebStrategies.org, using his time and skills as a web professional to help churches get strategic about their web and social media presence. Listen to this episode to hear the back story for why he started blogging and podcasting, and his heart for helping churches using his experiences in strategy and business analytics.
Show Notes
Connect with Stephen Morrissey on Twitter @ChurchWebStrats and his podcast + blog at ChurchWebStrategies.org
Pittsburgh area churches that Stephen’s noticed
- North Way Christian Community northway.org
- Victory Family Church lifeatvictory.com
- Orchard Hill Church orchardhillchurch.com
#podcast Judith Gotwald on How Social Media Saved Our Church on Episode 48 ~ Judith is in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area
Let’s give K.C. Procter a call on this episode of Social Media Church and hear how he does all that he does- a Dad, an Online Campus Pastor (at New Life Church in Renton WA), a podcaster (Dad Life Rules), and co-founder of publishing power-house ChurchMag Press. Listen to how their church started in social media, decided when it was time to launch an online campus, how having a fake parody account of a pastor was useful (instead of a letter for cease & desist), the most popular e-books at ChurchMag, and more! Sorry, we didn’t get to the inside scoop about Starbucks.
Show Notes
Connect with K.C. Procter at kcprocter.com + on Twitter @kcprocter + on Facebook fb.com/DadLifeRules
Listen + Subscribe to the Dad Life Rules podcast
New Life Church (Renton, WA) + its Online Campus + its 11 gatherings
ChurchMag Press ~ digital publishing arm of the ChurchMag church tech blog
#ebook Rethinking Your Church Website Strategy by Jonathan Malm
#ebook Social Media Handbook: Church Edition by ChurchMag Press Collaborative
#ebook The Essential Social Media Content Strategy Guide by KC Procter
Dave Travis is the Chief Encouragement Officer (CEO) of Leadership Network, a ministry organization that fosters innovation movements that activate THE CHURCH to greater impact for the Glory of God’s name. Dave has a unique vantage point of seeing how innovative churches are incorporating technology and social media in their ministry strategies, and that’s what we have a conversation about on this episode of Social Media Church podcast. Dave talks about what digital technologies opens up in terms of opportunities, how pastors and church leaders can adjust to the changing dynamics of social media, and more.
Show Notes
Connect with Dave Travis on Twitter @DaveTravis and on Facebook fb.com/davetravis
The Nines thenines.tv- a free online conference for church leaders; this year’s theme is “Culture Clash” about how the church will respond to our fast-changing culture
#article “Trolling For God: 5 Things You Can Learn From Westboro’s Social-Media Playbook: The church crushes it using the tools of Satan” by Helen A.S. Popkin (at ReadWrite.com, August 2014) [ed.note: the episode audio had incorrectly attributed this article to Mashable, it is actually ReadWrite #correction]
#syndication Social Media Church podcast at the Leadership Network blog
Kenny Jahng, the Pastor of Media and Innovation at Liquid Church (Morristown, NJ), celebrates Episode 100 with Social Media Church podcast! Of course we have to have conversations about social media, how email is the killer app (according to Kenny Jahng), how traditional media and even the postal service are all useful channels of communications in this social media age, how Liquid Church’s Church Online strategy has changed, and more.
Show Notes
Connect with Kenny Jahng on Twitter @kennyjahng or @kkcoolj or @godvertiser+ his blog godvertiser.com
#article Service Teams that Go Above and Beyond (@ Leadership Network blog) ~ about the Liquid Church Roadies, celebrating and valuing the setup & tear down crew and making that a special experience
Also, listen to Kenny Jahng on the inaugural Episode 1 of Social Media Church
#raw video of the recording session for this episode on YouTube powered by Google+ Hangout on Air
Natalie Aho serves churches and ministries as an interactive communication specialist, working in the areas of communication and social media for ministries like Associated Baptist Press/Herald and Alabama Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, and Center for Healthy Churches. Natalie connects the Social Media Church for a conversation about how communication has rapidly changed and developed with social media, how she helps churches and pastors to use social media through resources and conferences, and what she thinks of the newly announced Apple products.
Show Notes
Connect with Natalie Aho on Twitter @naaho + Facebook facebook.com/natalie.a.aho
DigitalClergy.com = a resource website for church leaders to learn ways to reach their communities online, developed by Natalie Aho
TheDigitalCongregation.com = Paper Churches in a Digital World, a one-day conference for conversations about congregations, social media, & communicating in the age of the internet
#video raw recording of this conversation – Natalie Aho with DJ Chuang
The free-for-all for the general public to register .CHURCH domain names starts at 9:00am PDT / 12:00pm EDT on September 17, 2014. More about .CHURCH domain names:
- When can .CHURCH domain names be registered? (the .BIBLE blog)
- Will Your Church Domain Name Be at Risk? (leadnet.org)
- Why .CHURCH domain names matter: Episode 91 (Social Media Church)
- Why Some New gTLD Domain Names are not Available to Register? (the .BIBLE blog)
- List of registrars that support .CHURCH domain names and others operated by Donuts (djchuang.com)
Listen in on a face-to-face conversation with Jay Kranda, Online Campus Pastor of Saddleback Church, and host DJ Chuang on this episode of Social Media Church. Jay shares about the lessons learned in pastoring an Online Campus, running 167 online worship services every week (that’s almost one every hour on the hour), how they make online-to-offline connections through Extensions, sneak preview about future developments, and more.
Show Notes
Connect with Jay Kranda at his blog jaykranda.com + Twitter @jaykranda + Facebook fb.com/Jaykranda
Visit Saddleback Church’s Online Campus saddleback.com/online
OnlineChurchLeaders.com
– free online training for online churches + internet campuses
Also listen to Jay Kranda on Social Media Church Episode #19 for more background about the online campus strategy at Saddleback Church
Jay Kranda’s eBook = Social Media Made Easy for Small Businesses: Grow Your Business and Help Others in the Process
Get the special offer @ jaykranda.com/social
Select blog posts by Jay Kranda (@ jaykranda.com) tagged Church Online —
- How a Small Church Can Leverage a Church Online
- How Does a Highly Creative Church Leverage Church Online?
- Rebroadcast TV, Online Church, Live?, and the Future
- What Can Twitch.tv Teach Online Church Leaders?
- Church Online is More Than a Chat Wall
- on Twitter @biblegateway and @biblegatewayapp
- on Facebook fb.com/BibleGateway
- on Google+ plus.google.com/+BibleGateway
- via email support@biblegateway.com
- The New Bible Gateway Gets High Marks
- Answers to Common Questions About the New Bible Gateway
- The New Bible Gateway is Here!
- What Are People Around the World Searching For in the Bible?
- How People Share the Bible (Verses) vs. Read the Bible (Chapters)
- The 100 most-read Bible verses at BibleGateway.com
Dustin Stout has a background in storytelling and the performing arts as an actor, now working to help people tell compelling stories online, through blogging, branding & web design, and social media consulting. Keywords: Social. Web. Strategy. Design. Dustin shares an insider look at Google+ on this episode of Social Media Church podcast. Dustin explains why Google+ is the most awesome social network, what’s valuable about it, and how church leaders can use it.
Show Notes
Connect with Dustin Stout on Google+ +DustinStout (the person) and +dustntv (the designer) and his website dustn.tv
Examples of church leaders using Google+ Hangout on Air
- Weekly Headlines- Dustin brings you the hottest, most talked about, and funniest news making headlines in the world of social media
- Ministry Hangout with Pastor Greg Surratt ministryhangouts.com
- Christian Discipleship Ministries‘ Christian Discipleship TV Multi-Cast
- Innovate 4 Jesus Live, with Justin Blaney i4j.org/live – your chance to ask specific questions and get access to some of the top practitioners
#video [raw] recording session of this conversation with Dustin Stout on YouTube, recorded with Google+ Hangout on Air
The Anatomy of a Perfect Google+ Post: How to craft a post that get’s the attention it deserves.
Social Media Cover Photo Dimensions: A quick reference guide to cover photos on the top social networks.
Official Social Media Logos: Visual assets you can use when creating quality social media images.
#course Visual Content Mastery: Learn how to create visual content like a pro! Pre-Order the course before September 24th.
This episode of the Social Media Church podcast has host DJ Chuang talking with listeners about what’s happened in 26 months of podcasting here. He highlights some of the data collected in these 2 reports:
Overall Podcast Statistics for SocialMediaChurch.net – June 2012 to August 2014 (courtesy of Blubrry.com + PowerPress plugin for WordPress)
Listeners’ Survey Results @ SocialMediaChurch.net ~ May-July 2014 (courtesy of UserReport.com)
OnlineChurchLeaders.com – free online training for launching + running an online church / internet campus, cf. listen to Launching OnlineChurchLeaders.com: Episode 92
Top 10 most downloaded episodes of Social Media Church
- Rey Lopez of City Church: Episode 36
- What can you do with $0 budget? ~ Episode 63
- Brady Shearer of Pro Church Tools: Episode 87
- Haley Veturis of Saddleback Church: Episode 85
- Peter Guirguis of Calvary Chapel South Bay: Episode 42
- On Facebook Changes with Jason Caston: Episode 86
- Dave Bourgeois, Author of Ministry in the Digital Age: Episode 84
- Greg Atkinson of Christian Media Magazine: Episode 82
- Matt McKee on mobile apps: Episode 90
- Corrin Bauer of Mars Hill Church: Episode 55
#mentions
The Phil Vischer Podcast ~ on iTunes + YouTube
Christian Podcast Directory – a listing of Christian podcasts that are not sermons
Sean Coughlin launched FaithStreet.com to help people discover and explore faith communities, prompted to answer the question “Why is it so hard to find a church?” In addition to its church directory with 14,000+ profiles, FaithStreet is home to OnFaith, 11,000+ thoughtful stories from faith communities, and FaithStreet also provides an online giving solution. Sean shares about how all of that works together, for the good of churches everywhere, on this episode of the Social Media Church podcast.
Show Notes
Connect with Sean Coughlin on Twitter @seanwcoughlin or phone 617-230-6853
Contact FaithStreet by phone 347-850-7783 or email faithstreet@faithstreet.com
#article 5 Churchy Phrases That Are Scaring Off Millennials by Addie Zierman, with 43k+ shares on Facebook
OnFaith has over 11,000+ articles, covering topics of faith, Bible, sex, religion, national, Georgetown, religious leaders, religious freedom
FaithStreet.com has been featured in Christianity Today, TechCrunch, and PandoDaily —
- Church Hunting? There’s an App for ThatHow Sean Coughlin and the FaithStreet team are getting Americans into the pews. @ Christianity Today (September 2013)
- TC’s Picks From TechStars NY Summer 2013 Class @ TechCrunch (June 2013)
- Startup FaithStreet lives at the corner of tech and Christianity @ PandoDaily (November 2012)
Pastor Greg Laurie is a notable pastor (Harvest Christian Fellowship, Riverside, California) and evangelist with Harvest Crusades that has held large-scale outreaches since 1990. He was interviewed by Brendan Stark (Web Director at Harvest) in a keynote address at theCITRT (Church IT Roundtable) Regional event back in March 2014. Pastor Greg Laurie shared his value as a pastor for using technology, the Internet, and social media, and how they must be used for the ministry of the Gospel. Special thanks to CITRT and Brendan Stark for permission to post the talk on this episode of the Social Media Church podcast.
Show Notes
Connect with Brendan Stark on Facebook facebook.com/brendanstark + on Twitter @brendanstark
#video Watch “Pastor Greg Laurie on Technology and the Internet” on YouTube
#event 2014 National Roundtable & Refresh Cache (October 22-24, 2014 @ Peoria, IL) + Call for 2014 Fall Event Ten-Talk Presenters — this is a great event for Church IT (information technology) staff and volunteers to talk shop and faith, topics include: web dev tools, help desk tools/tips/tricks, personal productivity, remote support, SQL best practices, social media analytics, training tools or methodologies, OSX on a windows network, and social media should show up somewhere in the mix too.