Killer Facebook Fan Pages–5 Examples

Back in June, Mashable posted a great article highlighting five Facebook fan pages, and what they’re doing right. Killer Facebook Fan Pages: 5 Inspiring Case Studies There are so many great things to take away from these five examples that apply to any fan page. Here are a few that really struck me. Videos Are [...]

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Google Calendar Tip: Plan An Event More Effectively

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A Google calendar is a great tool for any Christian ministry. You can easily grant your entire team access to a shared central calendar to help with planning and updating events. And this same calendar can also be used to keep everyone in your ministry up to date on upcoming events. Check out this video [...]

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Sticky Posts: How To Make a Post Stick To The Top of Your Home Page

Let’s say your group is putting on a HUGE event that you want your entire audience to know about. In fact, the event is so big that you wish your blog post about that event was always at the top of your list of posts on your home page. Not a problem with WordPress and [...]

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WordPress Tip: Insert a Google Map

Embedding Google Maps onto your ministry blog is a really easy way to show people where all of your events and outreaches are happening without them navigating away from your site. Here’s a quick tutorial on how to embed a map onto your WordPress blog. 1. Go to www.maps.google.com 2. Enter the desired address in [...]

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Youtube and Christian Ministry: Increase Your Ministry Reach With A Youtube Channel

Mashable.com posted a great article with four easy steps for optimizing your Youtube channel, and grow the number of people who see your ministry’s videos. Optimizing your video channel increases the odds of your content bubbling up to the top of everyone’s search results both in Youtube, and in other search engines like Google. And [...]

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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 Tip: Use Insights to Create Content Your Fans Want

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Facebook provides you access to a set of analytics information for all of your Facebook pages and applications. This info, Facebook Insights, can be a really great tool for quickly understanding who is engaging with your ministry’s fan page, and how they’re engaging with your page. Here’s a quick tip on how to use Insights [...]

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WordPress Admins, Editors, and Subscribers – Different Levels of Access

WordPress gives you the ability to set up new users for your blog with different levels of access. This can be really helpful if you want to have lots of people contributing content to your blog. This way, you can have a team of people writing new posts without giving everyone the power to accidentally [...]

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Google Analytics: Key Features for Your Ministry Website

Mashable did a great post highlighting 27 features of Google Analytics. If you aren’t already using some sort of analytic tool, Google Analytics is great because it’s not only free, but it’s also easy to use. With it, you can measure the traffic going to your ministry blog or website, and see how people are [...]

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YouTube Tip: Increase Your Viewers

Mashable did an interesting article about how non profits can use YouTube to increase their impact. Unfortunately, most of their ideas aren’t applicable to Christian ministries since they hinge on being a part of YouTube’s non-profit program which excludes organizations that are religious or political in nature. One really helpful insight they gave though is [...]

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