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Archives for February 2018

Redeeming Video Game Culture

February 15, 2018
by Jeremy Smith

I have these short bursts of micro-obsessions where I find myself going in deep on a story, subject, or project. Six years ago, I was still in youth ministry, on vacation, and bored. In my spare time I created a search engine and application for youth ministry games because the resources available out there were not cutting it. It was a micro-obsessions, so when I was done with it, I put it on a backup hard drive which has been lost in the clutter.

A recent micro-obsession has been something plaguing the online gaming community. People love to livestream video games which has created a way for many people to make a small living as well as huge fan-bases. This has led to “rival communities” that would do anything to win, include a vile act called SWATing. For the uninitiated, you find out where a livestreamer lives (many people have bad boundaries and it’s easy to find out). Then when you know the person is playing a competitive game against your team, you call the local police of that streamer and falsely report a terrible murder is happening. This leads to the SWAT team crashing into the gamer’s house and disrupting their stream.

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The Perfect Amount of Text on a Facebook Ad

February 14, 2018
by Jeremy Smith

If you are a church communications team member or have for any reason needed to create a Facebook ad, you have probably run into an issue at some point. Facebook has a rule that you cannot put too much text on your image. The old rule was if 20% of an ad image’s area was text, it wouldn’t be approved to run on Facebook, Instagram or the Audience Network. Now, they may just restrict the number of people who see it.

AdParlor.com is a web application specifically designed to help you find the right amount of text space used on your image before you go and put together your whole ad with target audience and text, only to be stopped by the amount of text on your image.
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Developing A Church Communication Strategy – The Team

February 13, 2018
by Blessing Mpofu

We can do nothing well in a consistent manner without being intentional. This is why planning is important. Coming up with a strategy focuses effort. The same applies to church communications. Before you tweet, create the bulletin, or post an ad on Facebook, you need to be clear on why you’re doing it. To be effective, crafting messages with care is important. Make sure you send it the right way to the right platform is another piece of the puzzle. These are a few of the things we’ve looked at in relation to church communications strategy.

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How Far Should Christians Fight Against Cheaters?

February 12, 2018
by Jeremy Smith

Cheating is bad.

Every Christian would be in agreement with the generalized statement. But this last month, we were given a uniquely situational issue that has some wondering if we go too far with punishing cheaters.

I wonder as Christians if we should join the fight against cheaters, and if so, how far we should take part in it?

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What Would Jesus Tweet? [Podcast #197]

February 11, 2018
by The ChurchMag Podcast

What would Jesus tweet? While we didn’t ask that questions specifically on this week’s podcast, that pretty much summarizes the episode. We spend so much time as church techs talking about “best practices,” “social media ideas,” and “evangelizing online,” that sometimes it’s easy to overlook the most powerful witness we have online: Our behavior.

So even though Jeremy left Twitter (Y THO!?!) and social media marketing has a lot to do about business, there is a dark side to social media, but do you know what?

Social media can be redeemed.

As long as we behave ourselves…

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[GIVEAWAY] ‘Finish’ by Jon Acuff [Saturday Morning Review]

February 10, 2018
by Jeremy Smith

Jon Acuff is a Christian satire legend with amazing achievements to include the Stuff Christians Like blog and going on a speaking tour with Dave Ramsey to encourage people to follow their dreams. He’s recently released his latest book, Finish: Give Yourself The Gift Of Done. How does this one stack up to the rest of Jon’s books and is it worth getting?

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