How to EASILY Record and Send Facebook Videos
Posted on 14. Nov, 2008 by Aaron Marshall in Social Media
Facebook has a feature that allows you to record video without any special software. This is a great feature for making videos to all of your friends or for private messages through your facebook inbox. I have made a point of trying to use video instead of text when responding to people on facebook. If you don’t have a web cam, I have used this one before and it works GREAT.
Tutorial Video
My Facebook Video Challenge to YOU!
I am not going to shave my head or anything but it would be awesome to see a bunch of videos pop up on my wall!
What are some ways that the Church can be using Facebook Video?
Interactive Preaching: Take Questions via Txt Message During Church
Posted on 29. Oct, 2008 by Aaron Marshall in Evangelism, How To, Mobile, Social Media
Because of new technology that exists this is actually an easy and inexpensive task.
Step #1 Sign-Up and Create a “TextMark“
Choose a keyword that will be easy for people to type in. If availble, choose short words or an acronym for your church.
Step #2 Create a PowerPoint slide that shows people VISUALLY how to ask a question using their phone
Send a text message to 41411 that starts with ASKSOJOURN followed by your question.
Example:
Step #3 Have a team Sift through the questions and forward them to your cell phone
This screen will be very valuable and make it easier to manage a big surge of questions. They will need to refresh the page occasionally to see new questions as they roll in.
There are several settings that need to be tweeked within TextMarks. Pay attention to the great option that allows you to respond with something like this when they ask a question…
Custom Response:
As always, I am curious to hear how others are using this kind of tool. Is there a better way?
Our Evolving Relationship with Technology: CHURCHSMO on the Radio with WFPL State of Affairs
Posted on 13. Oct, 2008 by Aaron Marshall in Social Media
Live at 11AM & Rebroadcast at 9PM / FM 89.3 or Listen Online Here
WFPL (a local radio station) invited me to be on a show to discuss the current state of affairs related to “Our Evolving Relationship with Technology“. I will be joining John Palfrey, a Professor of Law and a Vice Dean at Harvard Law School. He is a regular commentator on network news programs, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, Fox News, NPR and BBC. Needless to say it will be an interesting conversation!
Follow-Up: Being on the radio was awkward, but fun! I didn’t realize that Michelle Jones from Consuming Louisville would be joining as well. It was good to have a familiar social media friend near by! You can listen to the show here.
Simple Tool for Making Website “Widgets” for Ministry Communications
Posted on 27. Sep, 2008 by Aaron Marshall in Evangelism, How To, Social Media
Sprout Builder is a fantastic new tool that will allow you to create a multimedia “widget” that can be easily embedded into other people websites or blogs.
Extend Your Ministry to Other Websites
When you change your content on Sprout Builder it automatically changes the content across all websites that have the widget on it. Instead of being just another link on someones blog you can have a multimedia presence and feed the latest content from your ministry automatically.
This tool has a mountain of applications for ministry. What other ways do you think Sprout Builder could be used?
Social Media Club Breakfast Live
Posted on 25. Sep, 2008 by Aaron Marshall in Social Media
This was a presentation of by the Social Media Club of Louisville that I was a part of. 80 people in attendance with 14 people watching from around the country. If you have a Social Media Club in your area I highly recommend getting involved.
I love being a part of a panel of speakers, I always learn something.
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