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Best Church Twitter and Facebook Practices
Yesterday I blogged some reasons to Tweet or update your Facebook Status in church.
Today, I want to share some “best practices.”
These are hacks to make your Tweets and status updates easy and more effective! Do these things and you will help the church rock it even more on Facebook and Twitter!
- LIKE, like CRAZY. If you are on Facebook, click that “like” button like there’s no tomorrow. You can find the “like” button on Facebook and all over our website.
- PICS! Tweet pics during the service. Or if you are a Facebookee, post them to the Revolution Church fan page.
- Comment and share. Comment and share your thoughts by responding to things that the church posts. Conversation attracts more people!
- GO MOBILE. If you have an internet enabled phone be sure to download the official Facebook and Twitter apps. Know that you don’t have to have an iphone…even if you use text messaging, you can Facebook and Tweet mobile. Go into your Facebook setting and click the mobile tab to start using Facebook via SMS. To use Twitter via SMS, read more here.
- Use YouVersion for your Bible reading. Just go to YouVersion.com for a free account or you can get it on any internet enabled phone for free right now by going to http://bible.revyourlife.com. Seriously, if you aren’t doing this you are missing out. YouVersion will sync you reading progress, notes, and more across platforms. I use it on my mac, my iphone and the ipad. They even have over 30 amazing reading plans to choose from. Then go and link your YouVersion account to Facebook and/or Twitter to easily share what you are reading.
- Tweet with a Hashtag. If you are using Twitter, attach our official Hashtag to ALL of your tweets. The hashtag is #REV. If you don’t know what a Hashtag is, learn here.
Got any other good tips? Please share!
Brilliant Blogs & Links
- Perry Noble…leadership GOLD.
- Thank you Ben! PORN is a HUGE problem.
- A new blog favorite, Michael Robison, bringing it all back home…
- Again, Perry Noble: “Ten things unchurched people are NOT asking.” AWESOME. AWESOME. AWESOME.
- My bud, Chris Galanos up in Lubbock…BLAME THE PREACHER.
- STOP expecting excitement to happen…
- 8 Things I wish everyone knew about email. AMEN.
- Carlos Whittaker’s new album, Ragamuffin Soul, hit today. AND IT ROCKS. Get it NOW.
DNA, Balance & Heart Check
Recently Christine Caine spent almost a week with the staff at Bay Area Fellowship. Bay Area has the most loyal, God honoring, hard working, risk taking, Pastor supporting staff of any church I have ever seen. My prayer is that we can develop the same kind of team at Revolution Church.
Check out what Bay Area’s pastor, Bil Cornelius, and some of the Bay Area staff had to say (original link here):
After speaking two nights at the Glo Women’s Conference and 5 weekend services, she made time to sit down and pour into our staff. This was a powerful time for our staff, leadership and key volunteers. A few of the key takeaways from this time and Christine’s 20+ years of ministry experiences were the following:
- The staff of a Church must not only support the Pastor’s vision, but the vision must become theirs. Only by grafting our Pastor’s vision into our DNA, will we ever be able to fully support him in carrying it out.
- Balance isn’t the Goal. A balanced life is a myth when it comes to those called to lead the Church. Meaning: Nothing can compete for the HIGH calling God has placed on our lives. No outside agendas should pull us away from the direction our Church is heading.
- Always check your heart. We must frequently examine ourselves and purge ourselves of attitudes or actions that might prevent us from furthering the assignment God has given our Pastor.
