Tag Archives: Facebook
Starting a Local Kidmin Network: Social Networking
Posted on 02. Nov, 2011 by Kenny.
Probably the easiest way to keep everyone connected in your new local Kidmin Network is to create a Facebook group. I’d recommend it as the first step, before you even hold your first network meeting. We’ve had many people want to be involved, but they’ve not been able to come to any of the lunch meetings, either because their schedule didn’t allow it or they have another job that prevents them from coming to a meeting. Having the presence on Facebook allows there to be a certain sense of community that exists at all times.
When I’m recruiting to the kidmin network, I often send them a link to the facebook group in my initial email so that they can get signed up right away.… Read the rest
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It’s not my birthday
Posted on 29. Apr, 2011 by Kenny.
So, yesterday I got punked by my own prank. It was so funny. At lunch yesterday, I told everyone about a great new facebook prank to play. I recently learned it and hadn’t tried it yet. If you can hop on someone’s computer when they’re not on it, get on their Facebook account and change their birthday to today. Later in the day, they’ll find out what you’ve done after they have dozens of “happy birthday” comments.
Well, yesterday during the main afternoon session, I spent the entire time meeting and talking with people. While away from my computer, some other blogger (Jonathan Cliff) changed my birthday. So, since last night, people have been wishing me a happy birthday. I think someone even brought me a cake.… Read the rest
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Social Media enters the Christmas Story
Posted on 19. Dec, 2010 by Kenny.
In the last three days I came across two fun but touching videos about the birth of Christ as told through social media. What if Joseph was on facebook? What if the shepherds were twitter addicts? Enjoy!
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Communicating with parents while at camp
Posted on 22. Jun, 2010 by Kenny.
Over the years I’ve used a variety of ways to keep parents in the loop of what was going on at camp. In the early days, I’d shoot my admin a summary email that she would forward on to all the parents. Then in 2003 or 2004, I took a big jump and started using a yahoo group, which worked pretty well. I’ve found that the more I help parents feel connected to what was going on with their kids at camp, the more excited they’d be about the ministry that happens to their kids, both at camp and back at home. A lot of parents are nervous about being away from their kids, so they just want to see pictures of their kids all happy and having fun.… Read the rest
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I just need one more friend
Posted on 17. Mar, 2010 by Kenny.
As you can see, I just need one more friend. Can you help me out? I’ll sleep better tonight knowing all is well. 
Thanks for your support!… Read the rest
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Fixing Facebook
Posted on 08. Mar, 2010 by Kenny.
I love a good hack. Facebook’s a pretty incredible application, but it’s not perfect. Sometimes the best way to fix an application is to let someone else other than the original creator have a go at it. Last night I discovered a little thing called Facebook Fixer and I think I’m in love.
Facebook Fixer is a script (or underscript rather) that causes web pages to do things they’re weren’t intended to do. Don’t get intimidated, it’s easier to do than you think.
Depending on what browser you’re using, you may need to enable your browser to run underscripts. Click here for a listing of browsers and what you need to do. I use both Firefox and Chrome. For Firefox I had to install the GreaseMonkey add on and Chrome didn’t require anything as it natively allows underscripts.… Read the rest
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The facebook children’s ministry experiment (part 2)
Posted on 03. Sep, 2009 by Kenny.
Children’s Ministry | Promote Your Page Too
Thanks everyone for jumping on board. You can see the viral affect already at work. Yesterday morning we started with four fans. I posted the badge on this blog and threw out a link in a twitter update (which did get re-tweeted twice). However, as of right now we have over 75 fans. Many of those came from the viral nature of pages. Those who became fans essentially advertised the page to all of their friends. A few of you promoted the page by “sharing” and that too promoted the site.
The funny thing I noticed was that many of my leaders and volunteers from Gateway were fans. Many of them I didn’t expect to be fans becasue they may not follow my blog.… Read the rest
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Facebook pages and twitter
Posted on 02. Sep, 2009 by Kenny.
Over the past year I’ve loved the integration of twitter in facebook. I can update my facebook status from twitter which is BEAUTIFUL. Having this same feature for facebook page would be equally awesome. However, it’s not quite there yet. Quite frankly, I can’t get it to work. I have friends who say that they’ve installed the selective twitter app on their page and they have gotten that to work (this is where you type #fb at the end of all your tweets and it updates your facebook status). I haven’t though. I’ve even offered people money to get it working on my page, yet no one has been successful yet. I think it is becasue I use the twitter app on my regular facebook profile and I’m trying to use the selective twitter app on my page and the two just don’t like each other.… Read the rest
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The facebook children’s ministry experiment
Posted on 02. Sep, 2009 by Kenny.
Okay, we’re going to play with this a little. A few weeks ago I started learning more about pages and I created one to play around with. I just called it Children’s Ministry. Then I realized an opportunity I had with an upcoming lock-in and created a fan page for the children’s ministry at my church. I launched it on a Thursday evening and by the next day I had over 50 fans. After the weekend I had 100. It’s been a little over two weeks and I seem to have maxed out at a little over 200. However, my market is kinda capped by location and access (those who attend my church, have kids/volunteer and are on facebook).
So, let’s play around with this page I created a few weeks ago.… Read the rest
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Comparison of facebook pages and groups
Posted on 01. Sep, 2009 by Kenny.
Yesterday I wrote about pages as opposed to groups in the facebook universe. I guess I’m just encouraging people to take advantages of pages for all they have to offer. Groups has been around longer and most of us have more experience with groups. Groups make more sense. They feel safe and community like. However, that’s just becasue we don’t completely understand why you’d use a page. Like I said yesterday, groups have their place and you’ll still use them. However, there may be some things you want to use pages for instead of groups.
So, here’s a little comparison. Here are the things that both groups and pages can do:
- Wall discussions
- Discussion boards
- Photos
- Videos
- Send messages to members/fans
- Create related events
What can a group do that a page can’t?… Read the rest
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