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Laura Burrus - who has written 195 posts on Media Outreach.
I'm passionate about building relationships, learning new things and challenging myself to stay out of my comfort zone. I love listening to live music, playing sports and creating art all with one purpose...to point those around me in the right direction. Follow me on Twitter: LauraBurrus
How Consumers are Influenced: Socially, Locally and Mobil-ly
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Continue reading...5 Smartphone Apps for Your Church
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
YouVersion- the Bible App for your smartphone. Go paperless and make your bulletin available all week through YouVersion Live. Or, create an interactive service by creating a poll and letting your congregation respond. Bible Gateway- Display a verse of the day on your website or have it feed into a news feed on your site. BibleReader- It’s [...]
Continue reading...Top 10 Blog Posts From September 2011
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Five Ways to Fail at Targeting Your Audience Communicate Effectively The Intersection: First Baptist Church Blairsville Volunteer Recruiting in Your Church- The Never Ending Job FaithHighway Tools: Prayer and Share Wall How do Colors Effect Your Website? The Intersection: Heavenly Minded Enterprises, Inc. New faithHighway Website: First Baptist Riverton Client Testimony: Pastor Tracy Devolt Five Ways You May Not be Thinking to Advertise
Continue reading...Volunteer Recruiting in Your Church- The Never-ending Job
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
I live with one of my church’s staff members. She’s the Early Childhood Specialist and is constantly looking for volunteers to help on Sunday mornings. Recruiting for volunteer positions is a tough job. I don’t envy it, but she’s great at it. We’ve been discussing ways to broaden her volunteer base and I figured she [...]
Continue reading...Social Media Marketing or Traditional Marketing?
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
If you’re a decision maker for your church you’ve either at least thought about social media and how to use it for your church or had a discussion with someone else on the same subject. We tend to cringe a little bit when we combine church and marketing in the same sentence. We don’t want to “sell” people [...]
Continue reading...How do Colors Effect Your Website?
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Colors are powerful! They represent feelings and actions that we are supposed to have when we see those colors. When you see a red sign, you automatically think “stop.” When you see a “green” light, you think “go.” So, what do all those colors mean in terms of using them on your website? What feelings and [...]
Continue reading...Sharing is Daring…
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
With over 750 million Facebook members and over 50% of those users logging into Facebook each day, it sometimes make me wonder just how safe my information really is. I mean, putting my faith in Facebook’s privacy policy is like putting my faith in a blow up raft to get me from Los Angeles to [...]
Continue reading...More Adults Now Use Social Networks than Ever Before
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
In a recent survey completed by Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project found that 65 percent of the world’s adult population uses social networks. In 2005 only 8 percent were using social networks to connect with people. While we all are aware that social networking is most prevalent among young adults, 33 percent of [...]
Continue reading...“Change, Change, Change” – Communicating Change to Your Church
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
There are lots of different reactions people have to change. While I’d like to re-write the lyrics to Aretha Franklin’s “Chain of Fools,” and burst out in song…”Change, Change, Change….,” I’ll spare your ears.. My church has recently gone through a lot of change within our young adults’ class. Personally, I enjoy change because things happen [...]
Continue reading...Cell phone Trends and Stats
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
The Pew Research Center recently conducted a study on adult cell phone users. It provided some interesting usage stats. Some are a bit sad…ex: 13 percent of users pretend to use their phone to avoid interacting with people around them. I may or may not fall into that 13% of cell phone users. (Confession!) In a [...]
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