Media Outreach

How Does Social Media Affect Your Brain?

A recent info graphic shows that social media use probably has more of an effect on our brain than we think. What’s most surprising to you? Infographic by Assisted Living Today – Assisted Living Facilities

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Facebook: New Apps for the Timeline

Have you converted? I mean, have you converted to facebook’s timeline profile page? I haven’t done so, yet. Every time I visit someone’s profile who is using the new timeline, my eyes kind of do this, “Where do I focus?” dance across the page. It looks cluttered to me- probably because I’m not quite used [...]

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Promote Your Christmas Event for Free

Is your church having a Christmas program of any sort? My church just put on a family event for our community called “A Wonderful Life.”  It was open to the entire community and it was free! There was live music and lots of activities like:  gingerbread house decorating, cooking decorating, ornament making and family photos. [...]

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Understanding the new Facebook Insights

If you have a facebook page, more than likely you want to see how your page is doing and who your page is reaching. The new Facebook insights makes it easier to see just how far your updates reach and how many people are engaging with your content, however, they can be difficult to understand. Not [...]

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The Q- Getting started with a Facebook Page

Today, Greg gives some first steps with how to get people in your church onto your Facebook page. pic by littleellieb

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Facebook- Where is it Today?

Facebook started in  February 2004. By December 2004, Facebook already reached nearly 1 million active users.  In September 2005, Facebook decided to expand to add high school networks and reached 5.5 million users by December 2005. One year later, after adding the share feature, news feed and development platform,  it reached 12 million users.  In [...]

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Social Media Usage

Lifeway released research earlier this year regarding churches and their usage on social networks and the web.  While I believe it is kind of sad that less than half of churches are actively pursuing Facebook as a means to reach people, there was other interesting information regarding website updates. How can we expect people to come [...]

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Facebook Advertising 101

Have you ever considered utilizing Facebook as more than just a place to connect and build relationships with current attendees and recent visitors? Facebook has created an easy way to target your ideal church demographics, while pacing the advertising at your budget. Choose who you will advertise to based on age, gender, city, state, country, [...]

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How Much Time Should Churches Spend on Social Media?

In Facebook’s discussion board section, someone posed the question, “How much time do you spend managing your social media presence?” Most of the respondents answered that they spent around 2 hours per day managing their business’ social media accounts. A Few spent up to 4 hours and very few spent less than 1 hour. Of course, each [...]

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10 Things You Should Know About Facebook Fan Pages: Part 2

This is the second part to the post from yesterday on Facebook fan pages. As always, if you have any questions, shoot us an email, comment on our post or tweet us @mediaoutreach. We’ve got a team of social media gurus who are ready to help you. 6. News feed - if you use “switched” to [...]

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