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Tell Your Church’s Stories in Facebook, Twitter and YouTube

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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Video: “What If Starbucks Marketed Like A Church?”

I came across an interesting video today on YouTube added by BeyondRelevance. They call it a video parable and it imagines what it might be like if a coffee shop run itself and marketed itself like a church. It was a pretty amusing video, though certainly a stereotypical idea of what the video makers think most churches are like. Read More

Inexpensive, Professional Church Videos

Video production for church marketing
I recently came a cross an article on CNNMoney.com about a video production company that produces short online videos quickly and inexpensively. The company, TurnHere, is now producing online videos at the rate of about 1000 videos a month for an average of only $1000 per video. The article focuses on the possibilities for businesses to use TurnHere’s services to market themselves both on video sharing sites like YouTube and on local search sites such as the online Yellow Pages and CitySearch, but churches can use these services as well.
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