This episode of Social Media Church features a caller’s comment, commentary, and presentation. You can listen to the episode for the comment and commentary. And, the presentation “9 Ministry Issues You’ll Face with Technology” is an audio excerpt of a Chapel message by John Dyer, courtesy of Dallas Theological Seminary – used by permission. John Dyer is the Executive Director of Communications and Educational Technology at Dallas Theological Seminary. John is also the author of the thought-provoking book, From the Garden to the City: The Redeeming and Corrupting Power of Technology.
Show Notes
Arman Sheffey is an Associate Pastor at Torch Church (Round Lake Beach, IL); connect with him on Twitter @ArmanSheffey
Tim Keller blogs at KellerDating.com about Love, Sex and Dating in a Post-Christian World; connect with him on Twitter @TimothyKellerand Samantha Keller blogs at scrappysam.com
#blog #post Textamacy – How Social Media is Accelerating Relational Intimacy
John Dyer blogs at donteatthefruit.com and is on Twitter @JohnDyer
#presentation 9 Ways Technology Will Impact Your Future Ministry (3/6/2013 at DTS Chapel)
#presentation Thinking Theologically About Technology and Culture (3/5/2013 at DTS Chapel)
#book From the Garden to the City: The Redeeming and Corrupting Power of Technology by John Dyer
Social Media Church hosted its first live recording with Paul Steinbrueck, Founder of OurChurch.com – a Christian web company – an elder at Cypress Meadow Community Church, and blogger at Christian Web Trends among many other things too. This special episode of Social Media Church was recorded live on Google+ Hangout on Air before a live online audience. The topic revolved around how can pastors use social media more effectively with limited time. And we also made time for interactive Q&A with the audience.
By the way, do you know any church with a full-time Social Media Director on staff?
Show Notes
Connect with Paul Steinbrueck on Twitter @PaulSteinbrueck, and in addition to blogging at Christian Web Trends, he also has a personal blog at liveintentionally.org
#blog Christian Web Trends posts related to church social media:
7 Practical Steps to Getting Started in Social Media
18 Ways Pastors Can Ruin their Reputation on Facebook
What is a Virtual Street Team?
#video watch the raw video of this conversation with Paul Steinbrueck and DJ Chuang
This episode of Social Media Church features a conversation with Peter Guirguis, the Social Media Manager of Calvary Chapel South Bay. We talk about his passion for online ministry, how to share the Gospel online, and how to get thousands of Twitter followers, how often he does Twitter hygiene, and more.
Show Notes
Connect with Peter Guirguis on Twitter @petenaotg and his blog notashamedofthegospel.com
Get the (free) Guide to Getting Thousands of Twitter Followers
ManageFlitter.com – handy dandy Twitter followers manager
#article Pastor Rick Warren takes to social media to mourn son’s suicide (mobile version)
Contribute to The Matthew Warren Fund for Mental Health
Follow on Twitter – Pastor Rick Warren @RickWarren and Kay Warren @KayWarren1
This episode of Social Media Church features a presentation (excerpted with permission) courtesy of The Gathering, a community of givers for Christian philanthropy. During The Gathering National Conference 2011, Bobby Gruenewald shared the history of YouVersion during a breakout session. Bobby Gruenewald serves as Pastor, Innovation Leader at LifeChurch.tv, and is the founder of the YouVersion. He was also listed in the Fast Company 100 Most Creative People in Business 2011.
Show Notes
Get the Bible app at bible.com or youversion.com, read the YouVersion blog blog.youversion.com for the latest news and updates, and follow @YouVersion on Twitter
#article The Next Bible (The Daily Beast, 03/12/13)
#video TEDxOU – Bobby Gruenewald – The Responsibility of Technology
#video The Bible In a Technological Age by Bobby Gruenewald at Q Portland 2011
#chapter The Engagement Economy (Bobby Gruenewald, YouVersion) in Book: A Futurist’s Manifesto, edited by Hugh McGuire and Brian O’Leary
#news Bible.com joins the YouVersion family! (8/30/12)
#episodes of Social Media Church with others at LifeChurch.tv: Dana Byers, Alan George, Brandon Donaldson
Follow Dana Byers’ blogger trip with Lemonade International April 14-18, 2013
List of Churches with Innovation Pastors (@ djchuang.com)
#dashboard now.youversion.com Today in the YouVersion Community – current statistics about the Bible app
On this episode, listen to DJ Chuang share the back story of how the Social Media Church podcast came into existence — how I decided on the content and program format, what are the technologies and software used, and my lessons learned.
Show Notes
- #article LinkedIn Gone Wild: ’20 Percent Time’ to Tinker Spreads Beyond Google
- Google Voice google.com/voice
- Google+ Hangout plus.google.com/hangouts
- Skype video & audio calls skype.com
- Blue Yeti USB Microphone
- Audacity – open-source audio editor
- WordPress – open-source content management system
- PowerPress – WordPress Plugin
- browse episodes of Social Media Church by guest pix = socialmedia.church/guests
- List of Churches with Internet Campuses
- DJ Chuang’s itinerary
- Support the Ministry of DJ Chuang
Selected Episodes
- Kenny Jahng of Liquid Church – Episode 1
- Vince Marotte of Gateway Church Austin – Episode 5
- Adam Jeske about #u12 pastoring – Episode 31
- Dr. Tim Hutchings – Episode 37
Top 5 Most Downloaded Episodes (to date)
The Social Media Church podcast is a weekly conversation with church leaders about social media. On this episode, we break from the typical conversation and open the floor for host DJ Chuang to describe the key ingredients that go into making a podcast so you can think through the preparation for the podcast you should be producing.
Show Notes
Connect with DJ Chuang at djchuang.com, on Twitter @djchuang, facebook.com/djchuang
my List of Christian podcasts that aren’t sermons
5 Podcast Ideas to Connect to an Online Audience
Facebook Groups: Online ministry & church practitioners, Social Media for Churches
Google+ Community: Social Media in the Church, Church Tech
Podcast Resources
- ing Church Trilogy: Podcasting Church, Tweeting Church, & The Serving Church [Kindle Edition] by Paul Alan Clifford
- Podcast Answer Man has a suggested equipment list and Learn How To Podcast 101 video tutorials
- The Audacity to Podcast (TAP)
- TAP069: Top Podcast Directories and How to Get in Them
- howtopodcasttutorial.com – step-by-step podcast tutorials
Podcast Hosting
- Buzzsprout.com (freemium) has tutorials @ Podcasting 101
- sermon.net (free)
- sermoncloud.com (freemium)
- sermondrop.com (freemium)
- libsyn.com
Podcasting Buzz
- Podcasting – Is the Old New Again? (Chris Brogan)
- The Resurrection Of Podcasting (Six Pixels of Separation)
- Podcasting Renaissance: Is Podcasting Making a Comeback? (Social Media Examiner)
#aside Lon Solomon’s NOT A SERMON, JUST A THOUGHT sixty-second messages based on real-life issues, broadcast throughout the Washington D.C. metro area — [ed.note: and ought to setup a podcast feed to increase distribution]
Elwood Matthews is Online Pastor at Zion Church in the metro Washington DC area. Listen to this episode of Social Media Church to hear about how their church launched its iCampus, how they make it a meaningful online worship experience, and what they’re exploring next.
Show Notes
Connect with Elwood Matthews on Twitter @elwoodmatthews
This episode of Social Media Church features a conversation with Dr. Tim Hutchings, currently a research fellow in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University and editor of the Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture. Tim discusses learnings and insights from rigorous academic research about online churches, what kind of people worship online, explores whether online relationships are real or not, and much much more.
Show Notes
Connect with Dr. Tim Hutchings on Twitter @tim_hutchings
Participate in Tim’s current project, CyberBibles: New Media and Sacred Text. If you’ve tried using digital media to help you read the Bible, please fill out this survey – and encourage your friends to do the same. This survey is part of a new research project that aims to find out how digital media are changing Christian attitudes to Scripture. If you have ever read the Bible on a computer screen, listened to it on your MP3 player, joined an online reading group or downloaded a Bible app to your mobile phone, fill out the survey. Learn more about this research project.
Tim contributes to the Big Bible Project blog, i.e. Cyberchurch Theology (part one of, um, more than one), Cyberchurch Theology, Part Two: The Problem With Community, How Not to do Online Evangelism
Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture – a free online publication
“Considering religious community through online churches” published in Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in New Media Worlds by Heidi Campbell (Routledge, 2012) – features a case study of St. Pixels (Church on the Internet) and LifeChurch.tv
Creating Church Online: Ritual, Community, and New Media by Tim Hutchings – to be published May 2013 by Routledge, based on his Ph.D. research, an ethnographic study of five Christian communities that met online, using new media to create forms of worship, teaching, evangelism and debate. The study focused on ritual, authority, community and the relationship between online and offline activity.
“Creating Church Online: Networks and Collectives in Contemporary Christianity” (by Tim Hutchings) is published in “Digital Religion, Social Media and Culture: Perspectives, Practices and Futures”, ed. Pauline Hope Cheong, Peter Fischer-Nielsen, Stefan Gelfgren and Charles Ess (Peter Lang, 2012)
#excerpt Creating church online: A case-study approach to religious experience, in Studies in World Christianity 13(3) (2008)
Scholar’s Top 5: Tim Hutchings’ 5 recommended resources on the topic of online Christian churches
This episode of Social Media Church features a conversation with Rey Lopez, the Online Campus Pastor at City Church (San Antonio, Texas), and that’s just one of three hats that he wears. Pastor Rey talks about how City Church launched its Online Campus, while in the whirlwind of being in a fast-growing church, how they’re navigating key issues of doing church online, using Google Grant, and more.
Show Notes
- Connect with Rey Lopez at his blog thisisreylo.com, on Twitter @thisisreylo, and +Rey Lopez on Google+
- Online Campus of City Church (San Antonio)
- Ustream.tv
- Church Online Platform
- Google Grants: AdWords for nonprofits
- #previous: Social Media Church episode #2 with Nils Smith
This Social Media Church episodes features a conversation with Christian Warne, founder and co-host of The Spoutcast, a weekly podcast show hosted by Christian Warne, Sarah Welles and Jayne Fossett at The Well Community Church in Fresno, California. You may have noticed that a large overwhelming majority of church podcasts are just an on-demand feed of sermons. Podcasting has the potential to be so much more for churches and The Spoutcast is a great example of how a church of any size can be podcasting to grow its community. Listen to how they started their podcast, what it takes to do one, and Christian’s advice for how your church can start one too.
Show Notes
Connect with The Spoutcast on Facebook, on Twitter @thespoutcast, and Instagram @ instagram.com/thespoutcast
Connect with Christian Warne at facebook.com/christian.warne
#photo to the right illustrates the kind of teamwork that it takes for producing The Spoutcast
#list List of Christian podcasts that aren’t sermons (@ djchuang.com)
#news One of Fresno’s biggest churches is covered in graffiti (KFSN-TV, July 2012)
Start podcasting your sermons for free at sermon.net or grow into it with a “freemium” service like sermoncloud.com orsermondrop.com
On this episode of the Social Media Church, DJ Chuang chats with 2 friends he’s known for years, Brent Wong and Dave Ingland, having connected with them offline (aka IRL – “in real life”) and online. Brent shares how he recently got inspired to get active on social media, and Dave describes his unique perspective in using social media as a church planter and now as a law-abiding citizen.
Show Notes
Connect with Brent Wong on Twitter @EpicBdub and Facebook page for Brent + Leila Wong and YouTube youtube.com/BrentWong77
#video a 5th generation Asian American story
Connect with Dave Ingland at daveingland.com and on Twitter @daveingland
#book The Big Book of Social Media: Case Studies, Stories, Perspectives, edited by Robert Fine, includes “Religion and Social Media” by Dave Ingland
#audio MinistryStory #18 – Cultivate Communications – a conversation with Steve Fogg, Scott Overpeck, Dave Ingland, and DJ Chuang at a Starbucks during Cultivate 2011
This Social Media Church episode features a conversation with Justin Wise, Communications Director for Monk Development, an internet technology company. We learn about his past experience as a digital director at Lutheran Church of Hope (Des Moines, Iowa), how he launched an Internet Campus for a Lutheran church, and his keen insights about social media, generations, communications, and theology. True to form, Martin Luther makes a cameo.
Justin was a previous Executive Director for the Center for Church Communication and a contributor to the multi-author book Outspoken: Conversations on Church Communication in which I (DJ Chuang) also contributed.
Show Notes
Connect with Justin Wise at justinwise.net and on Twitter @JustinWise
Justin Wise’s book announcement for his new book, tentatively sub-titled: A Theology of Digital Communication
What would you give as a title for Justin’s book? Add a comment, and let’s crowdsource the book title right here! I can’t guarantee it, but maybe the winning title will get a free copy of the book and a shout-out (at the very least…)
#extra: DJ Chuang’s February is Fundraising campaign; Orange County Register article, “O.C. exports Asian American churches to the world”
[update April 2013] Justin Wise launched his podcast #THINKDIGITAL
Listen to this Social Media Church podcast conversation with Todd Rhoades about how he curates interesting content about the church, his perspective on the evolution of social media, how email is still relevant, online conferences at Leadership Network, why social media is underutilized in local churches, and more. Todd is the Director of New Media and Technology Initiatives at Leadership Network. Todd’s blog has been described as “one half Bible and one half National Enquirer.”
Show Notes
Connect with Todd Rhoades at ToddRhoades.com and @ToddRhoades on Twitter
List of most popular Facebook pages of churches and ministries
#video MinistryBriefing: Facebook Makes You Hate Life with Todd Rhoades and Matt Steen
#article Study finds rampant envy on Facebook: Social network can lead to feelings of misery and loneliness, German researchers say(Chicago Tribune)
#article Why Facebook Makes You Feel Bad About Yourself (TIME Health & Family)
Listen to how social media was integrated into the Urbana 12 conference with Adam Jeske, who directed and coordinated the 14-member Social Media Squad at the Urbana Missions Conference to actively engaged 16,000+ participants along with others off-site via a livestream video feed and other social feeds too — nearly 40,000 tweets on the event hashtag (#u12), 6,400+ photos posted on Twitter and Instagram, 10,000+ viewers on the livestream. I (host DJ Chuang) got to serve on that Social Media Squad too, and wanted you to hear first-hand from the mastermind that orchestrated it all.
Adam is the Director of New Media and Associate Director of Communications at InterVarsity Christian Fellowship.
Show Notes
Connect with Adam Jeske at his blog executingideas.com + on Twitter @adamjeske + on Facebook facebook.com/adam.jeske
Tweeting for Jesus with 16,000 Friends: Urbana Social Media – Adam Jeske’s reflections
How Urbana 12 Changed My Life Too – DJ Chuang’s reflections
Urbana 2012: Social Media Engagement Future of Christian Conferences? (The Christian Post)
Social media major part of Urbana 12 (Mission Network News)
#audio NPR What’s Trending: The Art And Strategy Of The Hashtag – starting at 12:20, listen to our #u12 Social Media Squad member Alison Smith talk about hashtag #u12 and Urbana 12
From the Urbana 12 Live Blog: How Urbana 12 Changed Lives + Power of Prayer powered by Storify.com
GroupMe – group texting app we used as our team back-channel for real-time communication
#article The Biblical Basis for Fun (Relevant Magazine)
#book This Ordinary Adventure: Settling Down Without Settling by Christine & Adam Jeske
This episode of the Social Media Church podcast features a conversation with Dr. Meredith Gould, the founder and host of the Twitter-based ecumenical Church Social Media Chat using hashtag #ChSocM. Listen to the back story of how this Tweetchat has flourished over the past year and a half, becoming the go-to place on Twitter for conversations about church and social media.
Show Notes
Connect with Meredith Gould at meredithgould.com + her blog http://meredithgould.blogspot.com + on Twitter @meredithgould
Join the #ChSocM Tweetchat on Tuesdays at 9:00pm ET / 6:00pm PT (or via twubs.com/chsocm)
#ChSocM transcripts at churchsocmed.blogspot.com
Tweetchat Church Social Media #CHSOCM – An easy-peasy guide created by Meredith Gould
Select books by Meredith Gould — The Word Made Fresh: Communicating Church and Faith Today and Getting #Married: Using Social Media
‘Hashtag’ Declared 2012’s Word of the Year by the American Dialect Society
Social Media in Church: Tips from Meredith Gould – ROAR.pro blog interview
Dana Byers is our first special guest in 2013 on the Social Media Church podcast, and she shares about her top learnings from years of experience in doing online ministry globally with Blue Door Ministries, as well as her ministry as Online Community Pastor atLifeChurch.tv.
Show Notes
Connect with Dana Byers on Twitter @danalbyers and her blog danabyers.com
Dana Byers authored The Art of Online Ministry (a Kindle eBook)
#blog: How Urbana 12 Changed my Life too (djchuang.com)
Previous episodes of Social Media Church with LifeChurch.tv: Episode 14 with Alan George, Episode 10 with Brandon Donaldson
#video: 3 Online Ministry Indicators Dana’s observations from successful online ministries
#podcast: Dana Byers shared key insights to minimalism on the Beyond the To Do List podcast
#video: watch the raw video of this conversation with Dana Byers and DJ Chuang
Scott Asai is the author of “The Startup Church: Reaching Millennials Where Faith Meets Business” and stops by Social Media Church podcast for a conversation about self-publishing via print-on-demand, and what he envisions for a new kind of church that could better reach Millennials. Of course, Scott describes how that does involve social media. Scott Asai is a former Youth Pastor turned entrepreneur to blend faith and business that develops Millennial leaders.
Connect with Scott Asai on Twitter @startupchurch and on Facebook facebook.com/TheStartupChurch
#book: The Startup Church: Reaching Millennials Where Faith Meets Business
#book: APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur-How to Publish a Book by Guy Kawasaki and Shawn Welch
Listen to this espisode of Social Media Church to hear a conversation with Douglas Estes, author of SimChurch: Being the Church in the Virtual World (Zondervan, 2009.) We talked about his insightful perspective about churches using technology, and what he thinks might be next for the church in a virtual world. I like this book’s approach, because it wrestles with issues of ecclesiology and technology. I also read an excerpt from the book on this podcast, a particularly poignant thought about what it really means to be “present.”
Show Notes
Connect with Douglas Estes at douglasestes.com, @douglasestes on Twitter and facebook.com/douglas.estes. Douglas Estes is currently the Lead Pastor at Trinity Church, in Mesa, AZ, a suburb of Phoenix.
simchurch.com is the book’s website
This episode of Social Media Church features the founder of Mobile Ministry Magazine, Antoine RJ Wright. Listen to his insights about mobile technology and how it’s developed over the past decade. You’ll also hear about how he creates his sketchnotes (visual note-taking), 3 personal tips for how to manage time while being a very active user of mobile technologies, and what he’d like to see the church do more of outside of its own walls.
Show Notes
Connect with Antoine RJ Wright on Twitter @ARJWright and his blog arjw.wordpress.com
Antoine’s Sketchnotes
Mobile Ministry Magazine (MMM) (@mobileminmag) has volumes of resources and useful articles, including:
This episode of Social Media Church features a conversation with Jan Touchberry, the Internet Campus Pastor (and Programming Director) of Christ Fellowship (McKinney, Texas). And she’s the first attendee at iMinistry 2012 to share an eyewitness account of her experience here on Social Media Church.
Question to you: anyone have experience with the Amazon cloud for streaming video? Please add your comment.
Show Notes
Connect with Jan Touchberry on Facebook facebook.com/jantouchberry and Twitter @jantouchberry
Christ Fellowship Online runs on the Media Social platform, currently with streaming provider NetBroadcasting.tv
Facebook page of Christ Fellowship Online
#article: More congregations turn to Facebook, Web, high-tech outreach (by Cathy Lynn Grossman, USA TODAY 4/17/2012) describes how Christ Fellowship Church uses an online Bible study guide, QR codes, Facebook, video streaming and podcasts to provide spiritual services to their church members.
Terrace Crawford chats on the Social Media Church podcast about his new book, Going Social: A Practical Guide on Social Media for Church Leaders. The book carries with it endorsements from heavyweights like Ed Stetzer, Kem Meyer, Scott McClellan, Tim Stevens,Todd Rhoades, Josh Griffin, Tim Schraeder, and more.
Connect with Terrace Crawford on his blog @ terracecrawford.com/blog + on Twitter @terracecrawford
Website for book: goingsocialbook.net
Facebook: facebook.com/goingsocialbook
Twitter: @goingsocialbook
The contest deadline for winning a copy of the Going Social book is Monday, December 3rd, 12:00am midnight EST. Listen to the episode for instructions on how to win.
On this episode of Social Media Church podcast, DJ Chuang talks with Identity Specialist Lem Usita about how social media affects our relationships and identity. Make sure you’re sitting down for this one, because this conversation may very well deconstruct your preconceived ideas. Lem Usita is a Professor (and Director of the Henry Morris Leadership Scholarship Program) at San Diego Christian College.
Show Notes
Connect with Lem Usita: @Lemness on Twitter and at identitySPECIALIST.net, and on his podcast the identitySHOW
Lem Usita’s article, “Creating Identity: How Youth Workers Can Help Kids Become Persons” explains Erickson’s stages of identity development
Lem also has noted that “Every experience shapes and forms us. There’s no escaping it. All of our Deep Hurts have a powerful influence on our identity.” and “Whether you spend lots of time thinking about them or not, your decisions shape who you become. You are who you are today because of decisions that you’ve made.”
Call-in comment from Bruce Herwig of Trinity Church (Redland, CA)
Video of the first internet baptism on February 17, 2008 at the then Flamingo Road Church, now Potential Church; Social Media Church episode 8 featured a conversation with Potential Church’s Nathan Castleberry
2 Internet Campus Pastors who live and work in a different location than their church’s home location: Bernadine Young of Family Life Church (Episode 9) and Dan Hickling of Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale (Episode 15) — Know of others? Please add a comment.
LifeChurch.tv’s worship space in Second Life; other religious destinations on Second Life
Plus, listen to the other version of our conversation over at Lem Usita’s identitySHOW podcast
Bruce Reyes-Chow stops by the Social Media Church podcast to share about his years of experience in using social media as an author, blogger, pastor, podcaster, and moderator of a mainline denomination, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), or PCUSA in short. Bruce is an ordained minister, the founding pastor of Mission Bay Community Church, the Moderator of the 218th General Assembly of the PCUSA from 2008-2010, and currently an active blogger, writer, speaker, and consultant.
Show Notes
Connect with Bruce Reyes-Chow at reyes-chow.com, on Twitter @breyeschow and Facebook facebook.com/breyeschowpage
eBook: The Definitive-ish Guide for Using Social Media in the Church
Wikipedia entry for Bruce Reyes-Chow
Bruce currently blogs at Patheos’ Progressive Christian Channel and at HuffingtonPost.com
Watch video of my conversation with Bruce about a church online beta, first introduced back in February 2012
While an advocate for churches and church leaders to actively using social media, Bruce has also noted some caution: An Open Letter to Pastors About the Dangers of Using Social Media
Bruce is 1 of 7 church leaders on Animate, a seven-session adult course from sparkhouse, an exploration of big questions of the Christian faith, designed to spark conversation in faith communities
This episode features a conversation with Josh Burns with a bonus segment of my best tips for churches thinking about launching an Internet campus. Josh Burns, Director of Web and Social Media at Park Community Church (Chicago, IL), explains how he gets paid to do social media for a church, the philosophy of how his church uses social media as a means to connecting people into face-to-face relationships, and how to know if your church’s social media strategy is effective.
Show Notes
Connect with Josh Burns at his blog joshburns.net/blog or twitter @jburno
Park Community Church is on Twitter @parkchurch, Facebook facebook.com/parkcommunitychurch, and Instagram @parkchurch; here’s some articles that mention them:
- Texting – A Churchly Activity (network.crcna.org 2/4/2012)
- Church Spotlight: Park Community Church (Collide Magazine 11/23/2009)
- Churches connect with parishioners online: Twitter and Facebook help with marketing and communication (Chicago Tribune 10/30/2009)
- Churches ask members to turn their mobile phone on during church (The Christian Post 6/18/09)
watch Real Social Media Ministry’s Interview with Josh Burns of Park Community Church
Getting Started: Josh Burns (ChurchMarketingSucks.com 10/15/2012) – about working in church communications
Churches blogging about life-change stories: Park Community Church’s Transformed Lives, Mars Hill (Seattle), The Austin Stone,NewSpring
Why should churches and pastors use social media? It’s a question I still hear from more pastors than not, even though the impact of social media can be as great as being a factor for overturning the government of Egypt, and shaping the political conversations of this election year, to name a few. DJ Chuang, host of Social Media Church podcast, starts on a conversation on these 5 things and invites your thoughts:
- What is the value of social media for churches?
- perspective on survey, “How churches use social media”
- social engagement on Facebook
- Onlinechurch.com
- thinking about this podcast
Show Notes ::
Social Media Church episode 5 with Vince Marotte
Josh Burns: Measuring Success for Social Media in Your Church
Buzzplant survey “How churches use social media” published at Mashable.com
Justin Wise: “websites with a blog get 55% more traffic than those sites that don’t“, citing a 2009 HubSpot survey
social media milestone on October 4th, 2012: One Billion People on Facebook
Facebook Tells Brands the Percentage of Fans Who See Their Posts = 16% (mashable.com, May 2012)
Facebook Pages Only Reach 17% Of Fans (allfacebook.com)
Facebook EdgeRank 101 #infographic
6 Tips to Increase Your Facebook EdgeRank and Exposure (socialmediaexaminer.com)
Nils Smith’s iMinistry 2012 notes
Social Media Church episode 2 with Nils Smith
PageData’s list of top Facebook pages “Most Talked About” in the Church/Religion category
Facebook page of Smoky Mountain Christian Village
And a postscript (that I wanted to say on this episode but forgot in the moment): what’s been (pleasantly) surprising is how much variety there is for how churches are using social media. This shows me that social media really are communication tools that can be used in so many creative ways. And the first step is to start. You’ll learn so much as you go, and like a treadmill, once you start, you’ll have to keep up and keep on learning.