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FACEBOOK FOR MINISTRY

Featured Facebook Apps: Ask Questions With Polls

Mashable recently highlighted 5 Essential Apps for Facebook Fan Pages. Here are a few ideas for how you can use the Poll app to maximize engagement and community on your ministry fan page. The Poll App allows you to poll your audience, and ask for their opinions. This can be really useful for getting instant [...]

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400 Million Reasons Your Ministry Needs To Be On Facebook

Incase you haven’t heard, Facebook (FB) has recently become the most popular website in the US, just edging out Google with about 7% of all internet traffic. With 450 million users globally, and millions more being added each week, there’s a really good chance that some of those people are involved in your ministry, or [...]

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Facebook and Twitter in One Place: Seesmic/Tweetdeck for Ministry

Facebook and Twitter can prove cumbersome to manage once you add lots of friends and followers. This screencast shows you how to use Seesmic to manage your facebook and twitter accounts all in one place. Many people still go through twitter.com to manage their account, which although they have made many improvements, still is not [...]

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Facebook Fan Page: How to invite your friends

This is a Facebook Fan Page screencast tutorial on how to invite friends to a page . Develop momentum for your group or cause in just minutes! Facebook fan pages allow you to both communicate information and share content with your fan base. It’s a perfect addition to your ministry strategy, and it’s a very [...]

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Using Social Media For Campus Ministry

Check out this great article Brian Barela wrote for his blog about leveraging technology and social media for ministry on college campuses. Leveraging Technology for Campus Ministry I think he makes a great point by distinguishing between the different types of communication and when they might be appropriate in using Facebook Fan Pages vs. Group [...]

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Facebook Pages vs Facebook Groups: What’s the Difference?

Everyone hoping to engage an audience on Facebook should definitely check out this great article from Mashable, describing the differences between a Facebook Fan Page and a Facebook Group. Facebook Pages vs Facebook Groups: What’s the Difference? As I’ve said in previous posts, I would contend that ministries seeking to maximize their visibility and brand [...]

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Facebook Share Button: Let Others Share Your Blog Across Facebook

A really simple way to let others spread the word about your blog, and to integrate your blog into Facebook is with a Share button. With a Share button, anyone, including yourself, can instantly share your blog posts on their Face book profile page, news feed, and wall. Once they’re sharing, your content has the [...]

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Creating a Facebook Fanpage Widget

Note: This guide assumes that you’re using Thesis 1.6. Also, since Facebook seems to change things around every month or so, this guide might be out of date by the time you’re done reading it. This guide is current to Facebook as of January 7th, 2010. A Facebook Fanpage, not to be confused with a [...]

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Get a Custom/Vanity URL for Facebook Fan Page

Facebook gives you the ability to get a custom/vanity url for your Facebook page. So instead of your Facebook url being something like www.Facebook.com/home.php?-jo34blahblahblah , you can have a custom url that’s easier to share with other people, easier for people to remember, and great for the building up your organization’s brand equity. Here’s a [...]

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