Tag Archives: Social Media
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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Backup your social media with Backupify
Posted on 31. Dec, 2009 by Kenny.
I just learned about Backupify. I haven’t even had enough time to review it (just signed up for an account this week). Essentially, backupify will create a backup of most of the social media you’ve got floating around the net. Things like gmail, hotmail, facebook, flickr, twitter and many of the other big ones. It’s a totally new startup and right now they’re trying to make a name for themselves and build their business. If you sign up before January 31st, you get their service free for life. Who knows what it will look like 6 months from now, but I figured it’s worth signing up.
Check it out here.
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More social media factoids
Posted on 15. Nov, 2009 by Kenny.
A few months ago I posted this video about the power of social media. Then a few weeks ago I found the video below from David Wakerly’s blog. I’m probably just preaching to the choir here, but this social media thing is a pretty big deal. Are you utilizing all it has to offer for your ministry?
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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.
So, what can you do? Well, the people at facebook would like you to integrate with twitter, but they’d rather have it the other way around. They’ve created a twitter app for your pages that will update your twitter account whenever you write on your page’s wall. Not nearly what I was looking for, but I guess it’s okay. So, when it comes to the twitter integration that I love with my personal facebook page, I’ll just have to wait until they have this for pages.
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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. I’ve used groups for book discussions, a biggest loser group and for a Children’s Ministry collaboration group. The real advantage of the groups is your ability to control access and obscurity. I’m in some groups that are open to anyone, other groups that are close and you have to be approved to join. I’m also in an obscure group that no one can see except the people in the group. This is the primary advantage of groups. The disadvantage to groups is obscurity. You can join a bunch of groups and completely forget you’re in them unless the administrator sends everyone a message.
Pages
Pages are just like groups with a few unique features. People don’t join pages, they become fans. There aren’t any limitations either, anyone can join. Pages have access to discussion boards, wall posts and photos just like groups, so the experience can be similar. The idea behind pages though is that they are not designed to be obscure. They’re for everyone to see and intended to be viral. When an admin post on the wall, it shows up in every fan’s feed. So one update can be seen by every fan and every friend of every fan. That’s a huge impact. Pages were designed to be marketed too. A few months ago, facebook opened up vanity URLs. That’s when I snagged www.facebook.com/kennyconley. They also allowed pages with more than 1000 followers to get their vanity urls. Check out www.facebook.com/starbucks or www.facebook.com/mcdonalds. Oh, and when it comes to pages, you can advertise. For instance, you could advertise to age demographics for communities and such. Doing a big outreach event? Create a facebook page and advertise.
So, if your church has a presence on facebook, you want to use both. You might use groups to communicate with volunteers or certain ministries where you can share schedules, training and these kinds of things. However, your church needs a page. Your student and children’s minsitry needs a page. As you post updates, friends of your fans see learn about you and potentially become fans as well. Who knows, maybe they’ll come visit physically eventually because of what they experienced on facebook. Also, if you get enough fans, you could grab a vanity url and have the address: www.facebook.com/yourchurch.
So, go start some groups and pages people!
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How my ministry team works
Posted on 14. May, 2009 by Kenny.
Yesterday I introduced you to my ministry team. We were invited to teach a lunch session at Orange about collaboration. I think the five of us all had some great things to say about collaboration, but more than that we just told the story of how we’ve done it with each other. The videos below are what we taught. Gina’s video hasn’t been uploaded yet… so come back soon to check that one out.
KENNY CONLEY ONLINE COLLABORATION SESSION from chad swanzy on Vimeo.
SAM LUCE LEVELS OF ONLINE COLLABORATION from chad swanzy on Vimeo.
Jonathan Cliff What Online Collaboration Is Not from chad swanzy on Vimeo.
MATT MCKEE TOOLS FOR ONLINE COLLABORATION from chad swanzy on Vimeo.
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Orange Brown Bag Lunch
Posted on 30. Apr, 2009 by Kenny.
Don’t forget the Orange Brown Bag lunches on Thursday and Friday. On Thursday John Saddington will be teaching about blogging and social media and on Friday, a handful of Children’s Pastors will be teaching about collaboration.
These sessions are first-come, first-served and space is limited to about 50 people. Meet at the top of the escalators of the arena at 1:15 PM on both Thursday and Friday. Don’t forget to bring your own lunch!
Brown Bag Lunch from Kenny Conley on Vimeo.
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Orange Blogger Brown Bag Lunches
Posted on 23. Apr, 2009 by Kenny.
Hey people. Something you may not have known about yet.
On Thursday and Friday of next week, several bloggers will be hosting brown bag lunches. It’s an opportunity to network and learn more about blogging, social media and network collaboration. So if you’re interested, here are some details.
Stop by the upper level of the Arena to meet over twenty bloggers that write about their experience with children’s and student ministry. We’ll be having brown bag lunches on Thursday and Friday with a handful of the bloggers to discuss very specific topics in an informal setting. Space is limited and will be filled on a first come-first served basis. Meet at the specified time at the top of the escalators in the Arena to head to the lunch location.
Blogger Brown Bag Lunches
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Topic: Blogging Explained – General Q&A
Time: 1:15 p.m.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Topic: Children’s Ministry Collaboration via Social Networking
Time: 1:15 p.m.
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CM Connect: Pleasantly surprised
Posted on 07. Jul, 2008 by Kenny.
I mentioned CM Connect a week ago as a new social network for Children’s Pastors. Initially I wasn’t sure what to think of it. My first impression was “Great, here’s another thing for me to update and check several times a day.” Amazingly, there are well over 600 Children’s workers registered. That’s great community. In addition, the entire experience of making friends, adding to discussions and even creating a new group is so incredibly easy. I even created my own group. It was so easy and fun. I’ll be interested too see where this goes in the long run. If you still haven’ been around to look, you totally should!
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