Comments on: Networking Online

By: Adrian

Adrian — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 21:16:32 +0000

Just discovered something on TechCrunch about YouTube’s new customizable player. The ability to group videos on the right side of the player is a great way to give a viewer a quick snapshot of other videos you want then to check out. Something I’m definitely going to use with some LC videos.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/20/youtube-launches-custom-player-feature/

By: Suraj

Suraj — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:01:28 +0000

I use facebook as well - clean, and a great way of connecting with friends. I heard about LinkedIn from the book “Finding your parachute”. Expect me to send you an invite soon Bobby, though I don’t know you much :P

Great site Jacob.

Adrian, You can use facebook events to advertise evangelical outreaches in a sense :P - maybe set up an event every weekend for lifechurch online!

I think personal works best among friends - as in a personal message/email over a group message/email.

God Bless ‘_^

By: Adrian

Adrian — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:34:57 +0000

I’ve been think a lot about the question of ‘how’ a church can effectively use these social networking sites. For example, friends can see that I’m part of the ‘LifeChurch.tv’ group and that I have some friends that also are in that group. Although there is some value to that I was really trying to think bigger than that. How can I use MySpace/Facebook/etc as a powerful evangelism tool.

I have placed the ‘message’ code on my Myspace page so that anybody can watch a message on my page, but its effectiveness can only go so far because I don’t expect many people to through what they would see as a 25 minute ’sermon’. Social network surfing doesn’t really facilitate that.

Here’s one idea that I wouldn’t hesitate applying to my Myspace profile… The short video clips that we occasionally use during the messages would be a great fit. For example, the video of Craig carrying the cross and discussing the 2 men that were crucified along with Jesus… THAT is an effective, short video clip that I would put on my page. I know I can go extract those clips myself, but if people had an easy way to find those clips and copy and paste the code that would be awesome.

Alright… enough rambling. :)

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:13:21 +0000

I have a Virb site as well, but haven’t really used it at all. I’ve just begun to use LinkedIn…seems pretty cool. I sent you an invite, Bobby. Thanks for making people aware of these things.

By: Bobby Gruenewald

Bobby Gruenewald — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:00:05 +0000

I know a lot of people who use Virb. It is pretty cool.

By: Jacob Sullivan

Jacob Sullivan — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:54:56 +0000

Virb.com is really great place to be as well. Super clean and highly customizable… Here’s what I’ve done with my profile: http://virb.com/whatisclarity - I’ve seen a few fellow lifechurchers around, and would love to see more…