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#ChurchCrunch – Share and Submit Community News via Twitter

Posted by John Saddington on Jan 24, 2009

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Ultimately, my goal is that ChurchCrunch becomes a community center for you.

I’m doing my best to strategize and plan how to push the boundaries of a “blog” to the point of community-uber-goodness.

You see, a blog is just a blog (duh).

It’s not a classically understood “social network” from a platform or technology perspective, so you don’t get media sharing, “friending,” and all that other stuff. One has to be a bit creative, use technology in ways that are outside the boundaries of the original intention, and experiment.

As such, I was thinking about how I can easily manage all the community suggestions that people shoot over to me as well as provide a way for other people to share those suggestions and community news.

Voila, let’s use twitter hashtags as a community feed!

So, all you have to do is use your twitter account and if you have something that the ChurchCrunch community should know about, add the #churchcrunch tag on your tweet!

This will notify me of cool stuff to check out as well as provide a consistent feed on the sidebar of ChurchCrunch.com for others to check out. Share and share alike people!

Word.

One final note… please don’t “abuse” this and go spam crazy, or I’ll have to “limit” some users from posting… “abuse” always must be a consideration, sadly…

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John Saddington

John is the Chief Editor @ The 8BIT Network and Senior Blog Junkie here at ChurchCrunch.He enjoys Triple-Tall Americanos, developing Wordpress Themes, and a few other Random Things.

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10 Responses to “#ChurchCrunch – Share and Submit Community News via Twitter”

  1. Jim
    Saturday, January 24, 2009 at 4:07 pm

    I'll give it a shot.
    I will not abuse.

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    • human3rror
      Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 6:05 am

      :) you've been quiet in twitter land…?

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  2. Phillip Gibb
    Saturday, January 24, 2009 at 7:27 pm

    Just did as well, very cool :-)

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    • human3rror
      Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 6:04 am

      :) we'll see if it holds up.

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  3. Mark Brown
    Sunday, January 25, 2009 at 5:59 pm

    Worth trying! Have you thought of setting up your own community at NING? As someone who shares a similar aim over at Brownblog perhaps we could grab a few others (Cynthia Ware, Chris Forbes come to mind) and start a NING community?

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    • Daniel_Berman
      Sunday, January 25, 2009 at 6:08 pm

      Good thought! Though we then have to check two places for activity, and comment in two places, with two different IDs.

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      • human3rror
        Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 6:00 am

        hmm. not perfect, but a try…

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        • Daniel_Berman
          Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 6:16 am

          That being said, I am playing around with a concept that you might be interested it. SMF forum software actually has several mods available that allow for CMSque type functionality or at a minimum the possibility of publishing articles with unified login for contributors to the site and/or the forum which is still available.

          http://tinyportal.net,http://portamx.com/

          On the other hand your web design skills are way beyond mine, and so a wordpress-smf bridging formula might work better in ChurchCrunch's case. Anyway its something I have been looking into for building my own community site. We'll see if it works.

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          • human3rror
            Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 6:21 am

            keep me posted. i've thought of adding forums… but, would that really increase the “experience” here? what are your thoughts?

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    • human3rror
      Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 6:08 am

      i have. ning is NOT my fav… but, stay tuned…

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