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Facebook Tip – Organize and Promote Your Ministry’s Events

With so many things fighting for the attention of the average college and high school student, it can be a struggle getting students to show up for anything, including class. The social media landscape, however, can make it a lot easier for your ministry to cut through the noise by greatly increasing the number of [...]

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Using the Like Button on Facebook

The Like button on Facebook seems trivial but can be a powerful tool for online ministry. Seriously. Everything added or subtracted to Facebook has a clear purpose: “To help you connect and share with friends.” What happens when you like something? The post/photo/video that you liked get “pushed” to the newsfeed of all of your [...]

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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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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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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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