Comments on: Showcasing Your Staff’s Social Networking Info

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:09:44 +0000

i've bought several copies of Now is Gone for ministry leadership and some of my clients who can't see to grasp the social networking piece.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:07:49 +0000

i went to your church's site and had to do google searches to find folks on twitter/FB, especially if i live in the greater PDX area and am looking to connect.

By: Gavin Baker

Gavin Baker — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:44:19 +0000

I think that's a great presentation of the various places you can connect with them online. Great find.

To answer Paul's comment, I think a lot of people are trying to figure it out as well. I only recently realized that I've always taken the marketing POV vs a personal. A post by Fred Wilson (a well known venture capitalist) regarding his Facebook and twitter usage really sparked me to think about how I use them and I wrote a subsequent post of that topic. You can find his post here http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/03/a-new-approach-to… and mine here http://gbake.com/2009/04/01/online-community-or-c...

Hope that helps.

By: human3rror

human3rror — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:44:05 +0000

Gavin,

Thanks for this.

By: Paul Steinbrueck

Paul Steinbrueck — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:30:43 +0000

Gavin, thanks for the links. I've blogged about the idea of including links to social networking sites in a church's staff directory http://blog.ourchurch.com/2009/04/14/social-netwo... and plan to continue the conversation about developing a personal social networking strategy tomorrow.

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By: Graham Brenna

Graham Brenna — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:52:45 +0000

We don't do a good job of this yet… we link to them in our weekly eConnections (Constant Contact email blast) There's only about 3 of us on staff with blogs and twitter so far. I'll def. keep this in mind for when we do our website re-vamp!

By: Paul Steinbrueck

Paul Steinbrueck — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:07:59 +0000

I think the question "What's your motivation for being online?" is to broad. I think it has to be broken down into multiple questions, "Why are you on Facebook?" "Twitter?" "LinkedIn?" etc. I don't think it's necessary selfish to use different social networks for different purposes. A person might not feel comfortable sharing personal things with a business contact or someone who just attended the a service for the first time at their church. Those people might be put off but TMI too.

By: JakeSchwein

JakeSchwein — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:55:06 +0000

sounds good!! I think people are missing the selflessness of community online when they are only on for personal reasons.

By: human3rror

human3rror — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:07:02 +0000

tell them to think of what they are "missing" in terms of connecting with new people for the Gospel of Jesus Christ… ask them what their motivation is for being "online"… Some may answer 'for personal reasons' while others may think a bit on it…

ultimately, you can't convince anyone to do anything… only the Holy Spirit.