Church Social Media and Technology
If you have been creating content for a while you know how easy it is have a content drought. Your social media is humming right along and then one day you ask yourself, “What’s next?” and you are realize you don’t have an answer.
A content drought can hit you at any moment. It can cause your church’s social media to stray off message, lose voice, or mindshare with your audience. How do you avoid a content drought? Well, here are eight ways that I know will help you beat a content drought:
Previously, I wrote about four ways that your church could use Instagram. On Twitter, DJ Chuang asked for some specific examples of churches who are doing it well, so I thought I would show you some examples. Here is list of three churches that I think are doing a great job of using Instagram andsome of examples of how they do it.
Mars Hill uses their Instagram account to visualize Mark Driscoll’s sermon points. As I have written before this is a great way to re-emphasize and expand what happens on Sunday morning.
I love my iPhone, iPad and Macbook. I am sure if you scanned your office, you could probably name a few digital devices that you too are also fond of. What would happen if those devices were gone? What would happened if you knew for the next 24 hours … [Continue reading]
Planning and social media don't always seem to go together. Since social media is seen an in the moment activity, planning can often be see as a hinderance to social media's spontaneity. However, without planning your social media can lose it's voice … [Continue reading]
Recently at our church, we began the discussions about retooling our website. One of the issues I am thinking through is whether or not SEO really matters for our us. Is SEO that important, or are there better ways for us to spend our … [Continue reading]
So your church staff has decided to dive into social media. Congratulations. So how do help them get started? There are lots of tutorials out there to help with the "how" of social media (if you would like a list just go here), but how do you help … [Continue reading]
