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Socialwok Makes Me Feel More Socially-Asian (and More Productive)
Actually, that’s what @Jared, one of my 8BIT teammates said, or something to that affect.
If you haven’t checked out Socialwok, a new social communication and group collaboration tool that leverages your Google Apps account, you need to.
And not because I said so but because it seriously looks like a valuable tool.
… And I’ve [...]

AlertRank: What Google Alerts Should Have Been
I’ll be honest: This new tool is pretty darn ugly but it does an amazing job at creating a better understanding of your Google Alerts (If you need some help check out this post: Google Alerts are Important for Ministry)!
Check it out: AlertRank!
It essentially creates a ranking system for you to quickly see where the [...]

Establish a LinkedIn Outpost for Your Ministry
Your church definitely has a website, probably a Facebook group or Fan Page, and maybe a Twitter account. But a LinkedIn group?
LinkedIn can be seen and treated as the ugly step-child of social media sites. Unless you seriously need a job or seriously hate your current one I doubt your logging hours on it.
However establishing [...]

Northland Church Launches Facebook Church
This is pretty neat (and different).
Apparently Northland Church has launched a Facebook application with the hopes of being one of the first Facebook Campus:
On Sunday morning, Northland, A Church Distributed will officially open the doors to its new Facebook app, which will allow worshipers to invite their Facebook friends to go to church [...]

The Open Source Pastor
Hey pastor, I have a confession: I’ve been pastoring people from your church.
I have had really deep and meaningful spiritual conversations with your sheep. They still show up at your church every Sunday. They say really good things about you. In fact, I have been watching your sermons on the web and talking with your [...]

Simple Twitter Wall with TweetWally
There’s a lot of need for a simple way to display tweets given a certain criteria such as hashtag, keyword, or even a specific group and user:
To get started, choose a hashtag, username, or keyword. You can filter the results further and customize your Tweetwall on the next screen.
TweetWally is another such service. Signing up [...]

Easily Create a Social Media Policy for Your Org!
Wow.
This tool here is amazing. PolicyTool can help you craft a Social Media Policy for your organization in less than a few minutes.
In fact, if you’re really fast, it’ll take a few seconds.
Literally.
Center for Church Communication Launches Church Marketing Directory
The Center for Church Communication has recently launched (in BETA, of course) the new Church Marketing Directory, a simple online directory of resources to help you and the Church communicate more clearly.
Online directories are nothing new, so what’s it going to take for this one to be more awesome than the next one? What’s going [...]

Vimeo Adds Robust Statistics to Videos, Becomes Even More Awesome
Wow. This couldn’t be better!
Available to Plus Members, you can track plays, loads, finishes, comments and even more on your videos.
Geolocation? Embeds? Yes, you can count those too. I’m honestly really impressed. Check out this video overview:

Starter Kit: Building a Blog Network from Scratch
It doesn’t take long when you’re trying to build a successful blog network to realize that nobody has written a book on the subject.
Truth be told? We could use one right about now. Don’t get me wrong, the hammer is down and we’re banging some juice on all cylinders. We have, almost literally, hit the ground [...]






