Social media is a revolution.  At no other time in history has a message or news about an event or even video of that event been able to be spread to so many people so quickly.  Consider the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

Within 12 hours of the quake, there were over 4.5 million related Facebook posts from every continent (except Antarctica).  Millions of people posted to Twitter with the rate of related tweets getting to over 1,200 tweets per minute.  Within a few days there were over 9,000 earthquake related videos posted to YouTube and over 7,000 tsunami related videos.

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As lent begins, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington launched a marketing campaign to reach members who have stopped attending mass.  Read more…

In light of the Holiday week, I thought go with a light theme today.  We’ve been discussing posting videos your church creates on video sharing websites like YouTube and GodTube as a way to make more people aware of your church, give people an idea of what they can experience at your church, and reach people with the Gospel.  However, just because you have a video, doesn’t mean it’s a good idea to share that particular video.  If you are going to post a video that represents your church to the world, you probably want that video to be a good video…Though a bad video can be fun to watch. 

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We’ve been looking at ways churches can use social media to market their church online and reach others for Christ.  The first social media option we are looking at is video sharing through websites like YouTube and GodTube.  In the past articles I gave several ideas for videos that your church can create and discussed some simple ways to increase the effectiveness of your church’s videos as an online church marketing plan.  Today I thought I’d have a little fun and post several shared videos from YouTube and GodTube. Read more…

We’ve been looking at ways churches can use social media to market their church online and reach others for Christ.  The first social media option we are looking at is video sharing through websites like YouTube and GodTube.  In the last article I gave several ideas for videos that your church can create.  This week we’ll discuss some simple ways to increase the effectiveness of your church’s videos as an online church marketing plan. Read more…

We’ve been looking at ways churches can use social media to market their church online and reach others for Christ.  Last week we talked about the benefits of online video sharing on websites such as Youtube and Godtube, as an online church marketing strategy.  This week I’ll give several ideas for videos. Read more…

We’ve started looking at ways churches can use social media to market their church online and reach others for Christ.  One of the areas social media has really exploded over the last several years is video sharing.  With websites like YouTube and GodTube, Internet users have found a place where they can share videos, be they funny, informational, outrageous, or uplifting, and people have taken to video sharing and viewing shared videos like a dog to a plate of bacon. Read more…

Church Marketing Sucks posted an interesting story about Kinetic Church in Charlotte, NC.  Kinetic church holds its Sunday service in a movie theater and so they keep all their gear in a trailer.  About a month ago theives stole the trailer.  In response, Kinetic Church launched an outreach effort with donated billboard space and a coordinated online outreach effort.  They even put this video on YouTube reaching out to the person or people who stole the trailer offering them forgiveness and asking for the opportunity to take them out to dinner.