Media Outreach

August in Review

I feel the older I get, the quicker the months pass. I’m sure it’s the same for you…Time flies. Kids are back in school…the weather is cooling off (well, not in Austin), leaves are changing, fall programs are kicking off and the fall/winter routine is settling in. Here are some of our favorite blog posts from August…in [...]

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Communication Tools To Make or Break You

Communication  can be the difference of right or wrong, success or failure and life or death.  Church marketing guru, Steve Fogg, shares a list of his favorite communication tools on a  recent blog post. When thinking about what works for your audience, what all do you take into consideration?  Do you consider where they spend their [...]

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The Real Faces of Facebook

Ever since Facebook was launched in 2004, I’ve been a member. I remember the buzz around the Texas Tech (Wreck ‘em!) campus when everyone was signing up.  Terms like, “Facebook me” and “tag me” weren’t quite a part of our everyday language, yet. But…one thing I learned right from the start was that you could wear [...]

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What you need to know about Facebook’s new feature: Places

This new feature on Facebook allows users to “check in” at different locations and then send a post to the user’s Facebook account informing everyone of their location. Other applications comparable to this feature include Gowalla and Foursquare. The feature also allows users to tag their friends in their location and allows users to see which of [...]

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Technology: How do you use it?

I thought it would be fun to gather some random information on how our readers use technology. Please fill out our 1 minute survey by clicking the link below: Click here to take survey Photo By: Cyrillicus

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July in Review

Here are our top posts for July…just in case you missed them! Five Ways to Ruin Your Website- Well, self explanatory, really. Ways Social Media has been used for the Good of Others- a positive look into some different ways social media has had a positive effect. First Impressions- Site that needs graphic work receives a B- a [...]

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10 Tips for Leaving Comments on Blog Posts

Be specific- tell the author what you like/didn’t like about the post. General comments like, “nice post,” are encouraging, but it’s more conversational to leave more detail about what stood out to you. Use correct grammar and punctuation. Always read the entire article before leaving a comment. Don’t act like a know-it-all- try to encourage a conversation as [...]

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Five Ways to Ruin Your Website

While are many wonderful things you can do to continually enhance your website, there are just as many things you can do to degenerate it as well.  More than 8 out of 10 people will attend your church after first visiting the website.  The quality of the site can only increase if you want to [...]

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My 100th Blog Post

I’ve been writing for MediaOutreach since December 2008. I was trying think of something fun to do for the 100th post…and couldn’t think of anything.  I’ve written 11 posts about Facebook, 28 about Twitter, 11 personal experiences, 20 on Social Media and 29 miscellaneous. I’m going to be a little bit of a narcissist today and [...]

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Ways Social Media has been used for the Good of Others

I’m pretty pessimistic when it comes to social media.  While I use it daily and it’s a part of my life, I tend to think about all the negative aspects of it and not so much the good things that come of it. I decided to see what I could find in ways of using social [...]

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