We shared yesterday how to setup the YouVersion Live app that I think is the perfect way to engage with your congregation, get rid of your paper bulletins, and promote the sharing of your Scripture as well as giving you tools to take your church services to the next level. So how do people use the app in real life? Here is some insight into how the app is used in the native.
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Because of the limited number of characters, constructing the perfect message along with understanding social media in general makes tweeting an artform. If you start to utilize hashtags and links, you’re almost immediately left with a short message to share. Upload a photo? You lose even more space. So what is important to say in a tweet and what should be left for a link, photo, or hashtag?
Tweeting to an audience of followers to make the most impact for your blog or brand means that you need to know what to write in your tweet. We want to maximize RTs, @replies, and has many favorites and click-throughs as possible. You have 140 characters to construct a tweet, so what are you going to say?
How to Setup YouVersion Live
YouVersion Live is a the perfect application for every church out there, whether you are a small church with only a hundred congregation members, all over the age of 45, or a multi-satellite church with thousands of people and a core group of 18-35 year olds, or a youth group of 20. The YouVersion should be an app that the pastor considers using even as he is beginning to write his sermon.
If you want people to follow along with their smart phones to the specific sermon you are preaching with sermon notes, Bible verses, and links to giving, polls, sermon videos, and other things, YouVersion Live will help you accomplish that and more. So how do you set it up? Here is a helpful video to get started and then some tips from us to make the process super smooth.
Your Social Media Strategy [Infographic]
The world of social media is a huge place and for a ministry, blogger, or business to want to not only jump into the process of beginning to engage socially online, it can seem both unnerving as well as confusing. I always urge people to start with a great social media strategy from the beginning that gives you vision, a mission, and direction to share and engage well.
Do you decide to start in just one place like Facebook with over a billion users and the most active social media location on the Internet or do you push through with some new social network like Google+ and become an authority voice? Do you decide to hedge your bets and post on several different networks, each with their unique content or fully invest in just one and build up a great audience in a central location?
ChurchMag Hangout #11: A New Hope
It’s official, we have restarted the ChurchMag Hangouts and WE WANT YOU to join us for this new format on July 13th at 10AM EST. We will be joined by ChurchMag Editor Eric Dye and explore a way to let you be the primary focus of the hangouts. That being said, this is going to be an amazing hangout full of church tech, nerdiness, feedback from you about the website, podcasts, and more.
JetPack: Use or Put In Storage?
JetPack seems to be a WordPress staple and if you have worked with WordPress extensively, you have run into JetPack and may have run into the many issues of JetPack. The issue is not if their are issues with JetPack, but because the plugin is so great, does the good out weigh the bad? Jason and I are in the same boat, we love the individual functions but do not like the overall idea of the project.