Comments on: Remember: It’s a Conversation, Not a Destination!

By: lara

lara — Wed, 05 May 2010 13:51:10 +0000

Great post! Thanks for the viewpoint, “It’s a conversation.”

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By: Corey

Corey — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:13:43 +0000

Good article Dan. The opposite of this can also be true; ministries can cash in “face time” with the community for online presence. It is totally important to engage online but there’s still no substitute for personal invitation / interaction, face-to-face.

@coreydrose

By: Marcus Goodyear

Marcus Goodyear — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:10:45 +0000

Also, I wanted to point people to the book Groundswell. I think Dan already knows about this book. He, LL Barkat, and I have talked about it before in relation to the high calling network.

That book talks about how companies can build strategies appropriate to their audience/customers. Nearly everything she shares could be easily applied to a church setting. (In fact, I’m using her ideas and surveys to guide my church as they create a specific social media strategy.)

By: Marcus Goodyear

Marcus Goodyear — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:06:47 +0000

Good advice, Dan. The quantitative numbers are fun for analysis at HighCallingBlogs.com, but we really rely just as much on the qualitative results of specific emails, comments, and overall engagement.

By: Dan King

Dan King — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:14:30 +0000

Your blog looks great Joe! I’d love to connect and hear more from how you develop your social networking strategy and how it works for you.

By: Dan King

Dan King — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:12:12 +0000

That is a great analogy Josh! I’m going to have to borrow that!

By: Dan King

Dan King — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:10:30 +0000

Absolutely! I can appreciate what you say about the potential for results not being seen for months. I’m actually a fan of slowly building quality followers (or other results) as opposed to shortcutting the system to get more immediate impact that is not as good in quality (particularly of relationship).

Thanks!

By: Joseph Zolman

Joseph Zolman — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:14:24 +0000

Nice post… I’m new to blogging and social networking. I just put up my new site for my portfolio, and I’m getting ready to social network a lot more.

By: Josh Miles

Josh Miles — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:55:55 +0000

I agree entirely with what you’ve said here, Dan.

Ministries launching into social media tend to do it with the same expectations that most people have when trying to lose weight. They want insane, commercial-grade results with little to no effort. There’s a reason why we’re one of the fattest nations….