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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Facebook Tip: Moderating Your Fan Page

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A Facebook fan page can be a great tool for a Christian ministry by fostering community, conversation, and a higher level of engagement with the ministry itself. Unfortunately, your FB page can also be an open door to online spammers, and to those who have no interest in community, but are instead looking to push [...]

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Facebook Ministry Tip: Apps Make Ministry Easier

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Campus Crusade for Christ has developed simple Facebook apps to help your ministry. Apps like Starting With God, EveryStudent.com, and The 4 Spiritual Laws make it very easy for you to minister and reach out to your friends through Facebook via fan pages. This video tutorial will show you how to browse through our apps, [...]

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Facebook Events

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A Facebook event is a great way for your Christian ministry to organize and publicize an event. Whether it’s a virtual event (like a webinar or a live video feed on your website), or a real world event (like a local outreach), Facebook can be a great tool for you to use to get the [...]

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How to Create a Facebook Page

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Having a presence on Facebook is an incredibly easy way for a Christian ministry, church, or movement to accelerate it’s reach. Not to be confused with a personal profile page, a Facebook page/fan page can serve as a great connection point, allowing you to engage with a greater number of people on a daily basis. [...]

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Contact Management With Batchbook

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Any missionary knows that effective contact management is a key piece of the puzzle when it comes to ministry partner development (mpd). As a staff member of Campus Crusade for Christ, I’ve been using TntMPD for years as my main tool for contact management. While TntMPD is an amazing tool, there are a few things [...]

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Facebook Fan Page Tip: Communicating With Your Fans

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While a fan page can be a great tool for any Christian ministry, community on Facebook doesn’t build itself overnight, or without some effort. Here’s a video tutorial to give you an overview of some ways to communicate with your ministry via Facebook.

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Facebook Fan Page Tip: How To Get More Fans

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A Facebook fan page can be a great tool in helping your ministry to grow, not only in numbers, but also in the level of engagement within your community. Your fan page provides an easy way for you to build community, and for the people involved with your ministry to connect more frequently. So you’ve [...]

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