This reminds me a little of when Disney purchased Star Wars.
Is this the future of Tumblr?
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by Eric Dye
This reminds me a little of when Disney purchased Star Wars.
Is this the future of Tumblr?
by Eric Dye
It isn’t enough for your church, ministry or non-profit to be on Facebook.
You have to post something!
But how should you go about it? It seems a waste to post stuff on Facebook and have it completely overlooked. What good is a tool if you don’t know how to use it!
Here’s how you can optimize your Facebook posts–there’s a lot of good stuff here:
[Read more…] about How-To Optimize Your Facebook Posts [Infographic]
Our college-focused church always does Spring Break mission trips, and this year we worked with the amazing Service Over Self to repair roofs in impoverished neighborhoods of Memphis, TN. We’re a Twitter friendly crowd, and so we had a hashtag already set for the trip (#ilifememphis). But the way we really started capturing the experience for ourselves and donors alike was Vine!
Eric Dye already reviewed the new Vine video app on ChurchMag which only allows 6-second videos in a clever Instagram-like app that hit #1 in the Apple App Store this past April!
It took us a while to get the hang of it but soon each work team had people dropping things on Vine to tell the story.
Check it out:
[Read more…] about Vine App for Mission Trips
by Eric Dye
Opened in 2011, the Table Project is revolutionary as it seeks to be a Church group interaction platform, not a self-expression engine like Facebook and most other forms of social media.
With thousands of churches using the Table Project as “a custom social platform that aims to encourage community in your local church, empower leaders and move people beyond the pews and into authentic, life changing relationships,” this acquisition may come as a surprise.
[Read more…] about Table Project Acquired by Gateway Church of Dallas
by Jeremy Smith
YouTube is an interesting thing. Before it was acquired by Google, it was an independent web company looking to do video well. Now, it is so much more than a video service, but a social network with a unique medium to present to people. Even better, YouTube is the second most visited social network as well as the second most used site for searching (behind Google, YouTube’s owner.
We have highlighted several key points from the infographic below:
by Eric Dye
Yahoo! has acquired Tumblr for $1.1 billion.
I didn’t even knew Yahoo! had that much laying around, did you?
Apparently they do, as they try to buy their way into social media in an attempt to correct the course of this seemingly shipwrecked former Internet giant.
Now what?