Tag Archives: Facebook
Facebook pages or groups
Posted on 31. Aug, 2009 by Kenny.
Last week I posted a video about integrating social media in our ministries. One great way to do this is using facebook. I’m still a noob at using facebook specifically for ministry related stuff, but I thought I’d explain the differences between groups and pages and how you want to use both.
First of all, you probably want to use both. Both have different functions. Groups have been around longer and of someone has experience with only one, it’s probably groups. However, most people are using groups to do things where they probably should use pages. Let me explain.
Groups
Groups can be big or small, but they’re mostly suited around connecting people around ideas, thoughts or specific people. The discussion boards, photos, links and allow for great connection, discussion and collaboration.… Read the rest
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The Facebook Landgrab
Posted on 13. Jun, 2009 by Kenny.
By the time you read this, you may have been too late.
Facebook just opened up the ability to grab vanity URLs that point to your profile page. Up until now, your profile page would look something like this: www.facebook.com/394058872990049458 (or something like that). Now you can replace that meaningless number with something easy to remember, like your name!
If you’ve logged in to facebook anytime recently, they’ve had an ad telling about it. I have been thinking about it, but I actually forgot and was about an hour late. How big of a deal is this? Well, in the first 3 minutes, 200,000 URLs were reserved. Crazy. I guess it’s important to some people. It will be interesting to see how many end up going in the first day.… Read the rest
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A healthy balance of ADHD, Narcissim and Stalking
Posted on 04. Jun, 2009 by Kenny.
This seemed to be circulating as twitpics yesterday as I saw it in two different places. Now I’m just passing it along to you in case you haven’t seen it. Twitter has evolved quite a bit. When I said twitter a year ago, 9 out of 10 people didn’t know what I was talking about. Now it’s gone mainstream (Conan O’Brien mentioned it the other night on the tonight show). Most people have heard of it, but several still don’t know why they would use it.
Not that this is convincing reason for anyone looking into twitter, there is a certain amount of truth to this diagram.… Read the rest
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Should I use Picassa or Flickr?
Posted on 02. Apr, 2009 by Kenny.
I’m a little stuck? Tell me what you think?
Currently I’ve got a little bit of a mess when it comes to photo management. I’m using Windows Live Sync to synchronize photos between my wife’s PC and my Mac. So when I take pictures and upload them to my MacBook, they sync over to her computer. The same happens when she uploads her pictures. It works really well this way. This means I don’t really use iPhoto to manage my photos because new photos will be added to my directory through synchronization and won’t import correctly into iPhoto.
The bigger problem though is distribution/sharing of photos. Recently I’ve been uploading photos to facebook as it’s quick and easy. However, I have family and friends who are not on facebook but they do frequent my blog.… Read the rest
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Twitter Tricks: Twitter Feed
Posted on 06. Nov, 2008 by Kenny.
This one is my new favorite. I’ve found that when I twitter that I have a new blog post, a lot more traffic goes to my site. Because I make twitter update my facebook status, I sometimes get facebook friends to visit my blog who usually don’t. So I like this.
WordPress had a plugin that would send a tweet whenever I published a new blog post. It would even tweet when I edited a post. I loved this. Any tool that automates tasks are golden. However, this plugin had a flaw. Maybe it was me, but I couldn’t get around this. I often future date my posts (like this post. You may be reading it on Thursday, but it’s actually Sunday night as I type it).… Read the rest
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Facebook is overpopulated? Ugh! Here we go again…
Posted on 21. Aug, 2008 by Kenny.
In the past week I’ve gotten the following message three times through my facebook inbox:
Attention all Facebook members.
Facebook is recently becoming very overpopulated,
There have been many members complaining that Facebook
is becoming very slow.Record shows that the reason is
that there are too many non-active Facebook members
And on the other side too many new Facebook members.
We will be sending this messages around to see if the
Members are active or not,If you’re active please send
to 15 other users using Copy+Paste to show that you are active
Those who do not send this message within 2 weeks,
The user will be deleted without hesitation to create more space,
If Facebook is still overpopulated we kindly ask for donations but until then send this message to all your friends and make sure you send
this message to show me that your active and not deleted.
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A cool little tool for my socially minded peeps
Posted on 10. Jul, 2008 by Kenny.
Okay, I’ve been using this service called Digsby for about 3 months. It’s actually made a big difference for me as I’ve become more and more spread out over multiple email and social services. Other than my church email, I have a gmail account, yahoo account, email for this blog, IM capabilities for yahoo and gmail. In addition I’m fairly active on facebook and twitter. Those are a lot of sites to stay on top of. Well, Digsby is a social network aggregator and brings it all together. Once you load it, you have one touch access to all of those services and more. You can chat with a friend on Yahoo while your checking your Gmail, chatting with someone using facebook chat in addition to updating your twitter status… all without having a single web browser open.… Read the rest
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Final Twitter Post… for now :)
Posted on 14. Jun, 2008 by Kenny.
Okay, I’m going to wrap up my series of Twitter posts with this one, sharing one more resource and a cool story.
I noticed that a lot of the bloggers I follow on twitter have installed and application that sends a twitter feed when they write a blog. It’s a great add-on. Now for most of these people, I already subscribe to their blog feed, so I’m going to read their post at some point. This application though provided another way for me to get to their post. However, there are many people on Twitter that I don’t subscribe to their feed. Through this little application, I’ve found some new blogs that I now follow. So it’s a great tool. Using Google I found this great post here.… Read the rest
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My Twitter experience
Posted on 08. Jun, 2008 by Kenny.
I said in my previous post that I’m not quite the early adopter that I’d like to be. Matt McKee had been talking about it for well over a year before I finally decided to try it. The biggest reason I didn’t twitter was because I don’t text. Well, I didn’t. I had a data plan, so I paid out the nose to be able to email people… which would irritate me when they would text me instead. So for me, twitter was a cool idea but without text, it wasn’t as convenient.
When I was between jobs this last year, I didn’t have a data plan. I found myself sending text messages more often. I fount that text messages was actually the best way to stay in touch with some family and friends.… Read the rest
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