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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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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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