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Training Videos

Facebook Tip: Fix Your News Feed & Save Time

You login to Facebook to do some ministry but instead spend 30 minutes looking at what old friends are doing, following endless rabbit trails of links, and start playing Farmville and Fishville simultaneously. To maximize your time spent on Facebook you need to optimize your news feed to eliminate distractions and allow for easy navigation [...]

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How to Integrate Blog Posts from Your Website & Your Facebook Fan Page

Here’s a screencast that shows you how to integrate blog posts from your campus website with your Facebook Fan page so that you can maximize your visibility with your students.

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USTREAM Streaming Video on Your WordPress Blog

Using a USTREAM live video feed on your blog is easy, and it makes finding your streaming  feed easy for your target audience! This screencast tutorial will help you embed both video and chat on your WordPress blog. NOTE: If you scroll down this page, you’ll see I have pasted some code that I refer [...]

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USTREAM Live Video Streaming Setup

USTREAM is a great tool to use for virtual meetings, allowing you to broadcast your meeting, and chat live with your viewers. Here’s a screencast that shows you how to login & set up video settings in USTREAM. (Addendum: At one point I mention “flash” based cameras, when I meant to say “firewire” based cameras.)

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Livestream Audio & Video Initial Setup

Livestream can be a great tool to use for virtual meetings, allowing you to broadcast your meeting, and chat live with your viewers. Here’s a screencast that shows you how to login & adjust your initial audio & video settings of livestream.

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Facebook Event Promotion Basics

Facebook can be a great place to promote your event. Here are some basics of promoting a ministry event on Facebook, especially looking at linking to external pages & news feed tips.

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Facebook Training Videos From Lifechurch.tv

Lifechurch.tv has created a library of Facebook training videos – Training Videos from Lifechurch.tv. These videos are a great resource to anyone looking to increase the online presence of their Christian ministry, especially for those just getting started with social media. Having a Facebook page can increase the scope and reach of your Christian ministry [...]

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Facebook: Videos, Photos, and Notes

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Videos, photos, and notes are a great way for any Christian ministry, church, or movement to further engage, connect, and start conversations with people on Facebook. For example, you could share photos and videos from a recent community outreach, and invite people to comment and tag people they know in the photos. By doing so, [...]

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Facebook Pages, Groups, and Profiles

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  Edit: Since making this screen cast, Facebook has changed the way their Groups product works. The biggest change is that you can no longer send a direct message to a group. All of the principles for deciding when to use a group versus a page still apply though.     Between pages, groups, and [...]

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How To Think About Your Online Ministry Presence

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An online home for your Christian ministry can help you reach out to people that you may not have ordinarily met, facilitate deeper conversations, build community, and increase the level of engagement and involvement among the people already involved with your ministry. But with so many options out there on the world wide web, knowing [...]

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