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Showcasing Your Staff’s Social Networking Info

Posted by John Saddington on Apr 13, 2009

picture-12Mt. Bethel UMC has a great example of how to provide valuable information on all their staff in terms of their email, Twitter account, Facebook, etc.

I think this presentation is clean, obvious, and easy to do, so well done guys!

I first saw this from a Guest Post over at TwiTip about “Twitter for Churches and Non-Profits,” which is a decent post as well.

Are they any additional ways that you are showcasing your staff’s social networking sites?

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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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13 Responses to “Showcasing Your Staff’s Social Networking Info”

  1. JakeSchwein
    Monday, April 13, 2009 at 2:58 pm

    No…but we need to and I think this is a basic step in the right direction. How do you encourage people on a staff to not feel weird about giving this info out. Some of our staff i know would "push back" on this idea.

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    • Paul Steinbrueck
      Monday, April 13, 2009 at 3:05 pm

      I agree. I think a lot of people (myself included) are still trying to figure out what social media to use for what purposes. I've seen some people use Facebook primarily as a means to communicate/network/market their business or ministry. And they'll accept anyone as a "friend." Other people want to "friend" only family and personal friends.

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      • JakeSchwein
        Monday, April 13, 2009 at 3:55 pm

        so what should one do?? John??

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        • human3rror
          Monday, April 13, 2009 at 5:07 pm

          tell them to think of what they are "missing" in terms of connecting with new people for the Gospel of Jesus Christ… ask them what their motivation is for being "online"… Some may answer 'for personal reasons' while others may think a bit on it…

          ultimately, you can't convince anyone to do anything… only the Holy Spirit.

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          • JakeSchwein
            Monday, April 13, 2009 at 5:55 pm

            sounds good!! I think people are missing the selflessness of community online when they are only on for personal reasons.

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          • Paul Steinbrueck
            Monday, April 13, 2009 at 7:07 pm

            I think the question "What's your motivation for being online?" is to broad. I think it has to be broken down into multiple questions, "Why are you on Facebook?" "Twitter?" "LinkedIn?" etc. I don't think it's necessary selfish to use different social networks for different purposes. A person might not feel comfortable sharing personal things with a business contact or someone who just attended the a service for the first time at their church. Those people might be put off but TMI too.

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  2. Graham Brenna
    Monday, April 13, 2009 at 7:52 pm

    We don't do a good job of this yet… we link to them in our weekly eConnections (Constant Contact email blast) There's only about 3 of us on staff with blogs and twitter so far. I'll def. keep this in mind for when we do our website re-vamp!

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  3. Gavin Baker
    Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 3:44 pm

    I think that's a great presentation of the various places you can connect with them online. Great find.

    To answer Paul's comment, I think a lot of people are trying to figure it out as well. I only recently realized that I've always taken the marketing POV vs a personal. A post by Fred Wilson (a well known venture capitalist) regarding his Facebook and twitter usage really sparked me to think about how I use them and I wrote a subsequent post of that topic. You can find his post here http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/03/a-new-approach-to... and mine here http://gbake.com/2009/04/01/online-community-or-c...

    Hope that helps.

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  4. human3rror
    Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 7:44 pm

    Gavin,

    Thanks for this.

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  5. Jim
    Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 3:07 pm

    i went to your church's site and had to do google searches to find folks on twitter/FB, especially if i live in the greater PDX area and am looking to connect.

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  6. Jim
    Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 3:09 pm

    i've bought several copies of Now is Gone for ministry leadership and some of my clients who can't see to grasp the social networking piece.

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