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How to Stay Current Without Going Crazy

Last year I completed a certification program from the University of Washington in Social Media Technology and Implementation. It was a terrific program and I would recommend it to anyone interested in this topic. I regularly receive information from the university concerning upcoming programs, tips, etc. I received an email from them that I would [...]

Facebook Settings…again

Well it appears that Facebook has changed some of its components once again which leads us to go back an re-evaluate how we want things seen and shared. I am still trying to wade my way through all of this, but I have found 2 postings that I would like to share on this. One [...]

Increasing traffic to your Facebook Site

With all of the other things on my plate, one thing that I need to tend to more is Facebook and using it support your mission in the world. I found this link via @RevWeb and it has some good tips on how to make Facebook more effective for your church. The site has an [...]

Multiple Administrators?

I have started following #chsocm, a great little blog by Meredith Gould (@meredithgould). She has a guest post by @penelopepiscopl (who has her own blog “One Cannot Have Too Large a Party“) on The Case for Multiple Admins. In this post, she talks about the use of multiple administrators to do the social media work. [...]

Cycling through the Digital Reformation

One of the things that I come across a lot when I talk with churches about Social Media is “how do we do it?’ This article from Jim Naughton’s fine site, Episcopal Cafe, is a great answer to that question. This post is an excerpt from Elizabeth Drescher’s new book “Tweet If You Heart Jesus, [...]

Facebook Privacy Settings

I have recently joined an online community “The Episcopal Church in the Province of New England“, or otherwise known as http://province1.org. It is the brainchild (if I may be so bold) of Sarah Dylan Breuer, the executive director of Province 1 and the author of the popular blog SarahLaughed.net. One of the recent topics of [...]

Social Media Isn’t Scary

I know when I have talked to some church groups, there is a resistance to looking at social media and how it should be used. I have come across a nice article by Aliza Sherman called “8 Reasons Not to Fear Social Media“. It is a real practical and balanced article and well worth the [...]

Is Facebook Good for the Soul?

I have a link here from The Episcopal Cafe by Ellen Painter Dollar about the dark and light sides of Facebook and social networking—their capacity for both nurture and narcissism. As we talk more and more about social media and how it would work within the church, I think she raises some excellent points as [...]

We’re Tweeting at Convention

The 100th annual convention of the Diocese of Olympia will be held on October 29-30, 2010 at the Hilton Seattle Airport Hotel &Conference Center. I will be offering two workshops, Website Design 101: Best Practices in the Digital Age at 10AM and Social Media and the Church at 11AM. More information on these and other [...]

How do I tweet thee…..

For many of you, Twitter may be old hat. But for others, maybe they want to join in the conversation but don’t know how to begin. Well here is a link to explain step by step how to get a Twitter account. Once you get an account, you can access this a couple of different [...]