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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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Free Christmas Media stuff

Free Christmas Media stuff

Who doesn’t like free stuff? The guys over at Echo Hub put together a list of Christmas Media Freebies. My favorites from their list are: WorshipHouse Media- 12 Days of Christmas.- Visit their site on the days marked with a bow on their calendar and unwrap your free gift. Igniter Media-  Giving away a free Holly Branch Loop Muddy [...]

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Social Media Marketing or Traditional Marketing?

Social Media Marketing or Traditional Marketing?

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 [...]

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Top Posts for July

Top Posts for July

1. 4th of July Staff Party 2. Social Media Usage 3. Facebook New Video Chat 4. Why does your church plant need church management Software? 5. Facebook Advertising 101 6. Reaching the Reached 7. The Q: How do I choose a web design company part 4- Teams 8. Reach Your Members 9. Twitter- Where is it Today? 10. The Q: Branding part 1

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Twitter- Where is it Today?

Twitter- Where is it Today?

5 years ago, the first tweet was sent, currently, the popular micro-blogging site has more than 200 million tweets each day. Just how fast did Twitter grow? 2006- Users were sending about 224 tweets per day 2009- Users were sending around 2 million tweets per day 2010 – Users were sending around 65 million tweets per day 2011- users are [...]

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How to be More Likeable…Online

Freebies – everyone loves free stuff. If you give away stuff, people are going to love you.  But don’t think you just have to give it away without any pre-qualifiers. Make them work for it. Make them leave you a comment or review and then send them something. Respond to Comments- don’t leave your fans hanging. [...]

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How Much Time Should Churches Spend on Social Media?

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 tips for Creating Engaging Content for Social Media

10 tips for Creating Engaging Content for Social Media

Write in a conversational tone. Pretend you’re having a conversation with your reader. Tell stories…keep them short, but people will be able to relate to stories and will be more likely to interact and share their similar story. Use a mix of short and long sentences. People tend to skim a post and only read if something [...]

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My 100th Blog Post

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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The Q- What is Social Media?

The Q- What is Social Media?

Good Monday to you, loyal readers! I am having webcam issues this morning, namely audio issues, so I decided to scrap the video for the day and write to you! Unless you live under a rock, you’ve heard the term “Social Media” thrown around lately.  Typically, you hear it hinged to the words Facebook, Twitter or [...]

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