July 20th, 2011 1 Comment »
The NWLC 2011 workshop, Building your social network, was co-taught by Matt Peterson (@mattofact on twitter) and DJ Chuang (@djchuang on twitter). Here’s the slides and links below that.
Social media tweets from @mattofact:
Links and resources mentioned in this workshop:
Examples of social-media-savvy churches:
October 6th, 2010 No Comments »
Workshop slides and website links will be posted here for all 3 workshops in the Stewarding Technology track — Technology Steward 101, Top Online Tools to Connect to Your Community, and Leading Your Team Through Technology.
Links and resources mentioned during workshops:
- Slides: “Technology Steward 101“
- Slides: “Leading Your Team Through Technology“
- Slides: “Top Online Tools to Connect to Your Community“
- Michael Ferrari’s blog – http://themichaelferrari.blogspot.com
- Twitter.com, Tweetdeck.com, HootSuite.com, Twubs.com (dashboard for moderated tweets)
- Facebook.com, Facebook Training Videos at LifeChurch.tv
- Blogger.com, WordPress.com, Typepad.com ($), Squarespace.com ($)
- web videos: Youtube.com, Vimeo.com
- file sharing: dropbox.com, CloudApp, MobileMe
- collaboration: Google Docs, Google Voice
- worship team planning tools: Planning Center ($), WorshipTeam.com ($), WorshipPlanning.com ($)
- videos: Sunday’s Coming trailer – “contemporvant” worship parody, State of the Internet (Jess3), Next Level Church – Easter Twitter Experiment (1-minute video intro to Twitter)
- texting: eztexting.com, jarbyco.com, churchtextpro.com, textmarks.com
- Westheights Community Church’s Connect blog – example of a church using a blog as its communication hub
- Books: SimChurch by Doug Estes; Open Leadership by Charlene Li, Flickering Pixels by Shane Hipps
June 29th, 2010 1 Comment »
Today’s webinar covered some aspects related to privacy on using Facebook. This seems to be an evolving thing when Facebook has occasionally changed its privacy policy and/or its terms of use, and for many of us who aren’t technologically or legally conversant, these changes can take us by surprise. Here are the slides from the webinar:
And here’s a recap of the webinar. Next time you login to Facebook, go to facebook.com/privacy and check your settings. Take a look at each line and understand who will be able to view the info that you share, both about yourself and the things you like and/or are connected to. Make your settings fit your comfort level of how much personal information you share with others.
2 great resources to learn more about how your church can use Facebook: (1) Facebook for Churches blog series by Danielle Hartland; (2) Facebook training videos from Lifechurch.tv.
The recording of this webinar (and previous webinars) will be available for free download. See the next blog post for instructions.
June 10th, 2010 No Comments »
On the Tech Steward Tuesday webinar series this week, these questions were answered, and this is a re-cap of my answers.
Q: “Is there a way, like facebook has, to find others that might be your followers?”
There are a number of ways to follow and to be followed on Twitter. Twitter itself has a Find People searchable directory and you could also find people using your contacts on Gmail, Yahoo, or AOL. There are also twitter directories like wefollow.com, twellow.com, and tweetfind.com.
Q: “Is there a place to ‘register’ hash tags?”
Hashtags are “add tweets to a category.” ‘Registration’ is not required; a hashtag gets established by the first few people that uses one. Websites that track hashtags include: hashtag.org, What the Hashtag at wthashtag.com, and twemes.com. And Twitter search shows popular hashtags (and phrases) in its trending topics. Learn more about twitter hashtags at the Twitter Fan Wiki
Q: “How does one receive a notice of a Twitter update?”
You can view Twitter updates on the web via twitter.com on any web browser, on a computer desktop via installed software, or on a mobile phone via SMS text message or smartphone app.
Q: “How can twitter be most beneficial to reaching lost people?”
Examples of how Twitter can be used for outreach and evangelism can be read at: How to Use Twitter as an Evangelism Tool [ehow.com] and Twitter and evangelism [InternetEvangelismDay.com].
Certainly there is much more that could be said about these questions. What would you add?
