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How To Use Facebook To Grow Your Ministry

Check out this great interview with Jeff Widman, a Facebook and marketing expert, about how to use Facebook to grow your brand and business. He makes some great points about how to maximize your visibility on Facebook, and some of the distinctions between fan pages and groups. How to use Facebook to Grow Your Brand: [...]

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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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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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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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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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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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