What’s Your Church’s Hashtag?
As a social media expert, I have learned the tremendous value of using Twitter to teach the in’s and out’s of social media. Today, I want to speak directly to churches and ask this question: What’s your Twitter hashtag?
Twitter is an amazing social media platform that allows you to communicate short messages in less than 140 characters. In order to “track” a conversation you must create a hashtag which is simply the use of the pound (#) sign placed before a short phrase that is relevant to your ministry. When a user enters this hashtag, they will be able to read all of the tweets that relate to your church. The attached photo is a screen shot from the hashtag that I use every Sunday at my own church. You can also see who retweeted me.
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One of my favorite church leadership and workers classes that I teach is “Supporting The Vision and the Visionary”. It’s so important with everything going on in the body of Christ, that we as leaders understand our roles in supporting the vision and the visionary and not idolizing them.
As servants, our role is to help build the kingdom and support our churches and not to make rock stars out of our senior leadership. How can we make sure that we stay on track with this? During my workshops, I pose quite a few thought-provoking questions but here’s the first one:
Read More »Should Tweeting Be Encouraged in the Church?
I’m so excited that Pastor Terrance Johnson has invited me to share on Social Media at both of his midweek services this week. Get ready Houston for an awesome time. I love teaching on social media and this opportunity affords me the chance to incorporate the Word of God into my social media teaching.