Archive for Social Media
A Redeeming Voice
It’s a new year and we all want a story of renewal. We love to hear about redemption. In our world filled with negative media…bad news proliferates our society. People are compelled by something fresh…hope. This past Monday, a reporter from The Columbus, Ohio Dispatch posted a video on Youtube that he shot of a man on the [...]
Church Branding
This week I launched the Ministry Story Podcast where I sat down with Phil Cooke, author of Branding Faith to discuss church marketing, branding, and media. In our conversation, I asked Phil to define branding – this is his response: “Branding is about telling your story well. Branding is simply a compelling story about a [...]
Creativity: A Social Network Christmas
A creative way to present the story of Christmas within the context of our social media culture. You can buy this video for $14.98 from Igniter Media to play in your church service.
Christmas 2.0: The Digital Storytelling Version
An interesting take on how the Christmas story might have unfolded in an age with social media…
A Flash Of Creativity
For those of you who don’t know, a “flash mob” is “a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual act for a brief time, then disperse” – Wikipedia Often these types of assemblies are organized via social media and are intended to draw some sort of attention to a [...]
Social Media Revolution 2010
Social Media encompasses all sorts of tools like Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Wikipedia and many more. In case you missed it…it continues to grow. Having a technology strategy is critical for your ministry. The reason I say strategy is that not every social media tool is a right fit for every ministry – yet as we move towards [...]
A Church Foursquare Focus Group
Foursquare is one of the newer social media platforms on the radar. It operates as a location-based service utilizing the GPS in your mobile phone. I conducted a Foursquare focus group over the past few months to test its application in a church setting. You can uncover my findings and consider how you too might use Foursquare [...]

