Tech Steward

Thanks to all who joined our webinar today! The topic was about whether your church should Twitter, and it was goal to provide practical questions and considerations for your church and its leaders to discuss and discern if Twitter’ing would strengthen your church’s life in community.

I mentioned a Time magazine article from May 2009, Twittering in Church, with the Pastor’s O.K., has great examples of how 4 churches are using Twitter as a part of their worship services. Read the article there and then add a comment here with your thoughts and comments.

Stay tuned to the TechSteward.net blog, and over the rest of this week, you’ll see a recap of answers to the questions that were submitted during the webinar, including:

• Is there a way, like facebook has, to find others that might be your followers?
• Is there a place to “register” hash tags?
• How often should you update in order to make this technology useful?
• How can twitter be most beneficial to reaching lost people?
• Should a church link their Facebook pages to their Twitter posts?
• Can you put an audio file on Twitter?
• How does one receive a notice of a Twitter update?

For those who attended and/or registered for this webinar, you should be receiving an email in the next day with a link to the slides presented and a recording to the webinar.

The Tech Steward Tuesday webinar series will continue in two weeks on June 22nd. The webinars are free, so register to reserve your seat.

Next week, I’ll be in Albuquerque for Worship Leader’s National Worship Leader Conference, and we’ll be talking about the Stewardship of Technology during the one-day pre-conference. Hope to meet some of you there, or a future pre-conference at one of the other two National Worship Leader Conferences.

By the way, we just got at Twitter too — follow @techsteward.

Worship Leader Magazine’s Tech Steward Tuesday Webinar Series started up this June, and there are 5 more free webinars scheduled in the coming weeks. Here’s a list of upcoming topics — sign up at bit.ly/techstewardfree ::

• June 8th: Should every church Twitter?
• June 22nd: What if the church loses control?
• June 29th: Is it safe to be on Facebook?
• July 6th: How do I become a better blogger?
• July 13th: Do you have what it takes to be a tech steward?

The Tech Steward Tuesday webinar series will explore how your church can be stewarding technology in the service of worship. The webinar series is presented as a 30-minute weekly chat-in talk show format, so you can participate in this conversation. DJ Chuang, Network Developer at Worship Leader Magazine, will answer your questions about church and technology.

These tech steward conversations will accelerate on-site and face-to-face at the National Worship Leader Conference 2010 Pre-Conference — this will be a one-day pre-conference event at all 3 NWLC’s: Albuquerque on June 15-17, Kansas City on July 19-22, and Lancaster PA on October 5-7. Register now >>

Look forward to connecting with you on-line and on-site!