Comments on: What’s all this hype about Facebook? (Part 1)

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By: Going to Atlanta at LifeChurch.tv : swerve

Going to Atlanta at LifeChurch.tv : swerve — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:39:36 +0000

[...] Several of our team will be there too. The rest of our directional leadership team (Kevin, Sam, Jerry) will be arriving on Thursday along with some of our leaders. Terry Storch will also be there late tonight preparing for some things at Catalyst related to YouVersion. I’ve had several of you email or message me on Facebook to ask about connecting while we are at Catalyst. We’d love to connect and are planning on putting together an informal “meet up” while we are there (likely Wednesday night because of our schedule). I’ll send out specifics via email to those of you that are going to be there and are interested. If you are, just reply to this post and/or email us at swerve@lifechurch.tv. See you there. For those of you that won’t be there…we’ll keep you updated here on swerve. [...]

By: Hardly Normal | Seth talking about web 2.0

Hardly Normal | Seth talking about web 2.0 — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 01:30:49 +0000

[...] I really love what Seth says about social networks which is funny because after reading some posts on LifeChurch.tv I bit the bullet and created a facebook account. Even after the posts I fought it but when they started a facebook church I was so curious about the platform I signed up. [...]

By: Questions About Facebook « Provocations & Pantings

Questions About Facebook « Provocations & Pantings — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 20:59:17 +0000

[...] You can read more about the motivation and rationale of the Facebook church in the three-part series (part 1, part 2, and part 3) by Gruenewald. [...]

By: Collide Magazine » Blog Archive » Facebook: Not Just For Whippersnappers Anymore

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:11:08 +0000

[...] I’ve wanted to blog about Facebook for quite some time, but now it seems there is no need. LifeChurch.tv’s Bobby Gruenewald beat me to it, and he did a great job at that. First, Bobby did a series titled “What’s All This Hype About Facebook” (part 1, part 2, and part 3). Then, Bobby shared a little bit about the potential he sees for Facebook as a platform in a post titled “Facebook Church.” [...]

By: Facebook Church at LifeChurch.tv : swerve

Facebook Church at LifeChurch.tv : swerve — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:59:42 +0000

[...] You can tell from my 1, 2, 3 posts about Facebook last week that I see great potential in it as a platform to connect with people. At a minimum it is an important phenomenon that you should at least experience to understand. [...]

By: Facebook: The Verb | Intrigue

Facebook: The Verb | Intrigue — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 19:58:35 +0000

[...] It already is the business card of the college people, its nice to see everyone else getting on the bandwagon. Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]

By: What’s all this hype about Facebook? (Part 3) at LifeChurch.tv : swerve

What’s all this hype about Facebook? (Part 3) at LifeChurch.tv : swerve — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:35:57 +0000

[...] Thanks to all of you who have connected with me on Facebook. It’s been great getting to meet so many of you from all over the world. [...]

By: joe (from MyChurch.org)

joe (from MyChurch.org) — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:13:58 +0000

Bobby,

I am the founder of MyChurch.org. And I love Facebook.

I was on a panel recently about the Facebook platform (http://communitynext.com/schedule/) and folks in Silicon Valley are very excited about this. It is truly a social OS, and applications built on top of the Facebook social graph have so much potential to be feature-rich and deeply integrated into Facebook.

We (MyChurch.org) actually built 6 applications on top of F8 already. The one I’m most excited about is in beta right now - its a church app that lets members of a church build their own church page WITHIN Facebook.

The purpose of this app will be (as you said) “engaging them and developing relationships with them where they are”

Facebook users will have a badge on their profile showing which church they belong to. And they’ll be able to share content from their church’s Facebook page with their Facebook friends - regardless of whether they’re a part of your Facebook church. It will be much more powerful that the Facebook Groups functionality - both as a communication tool and as an outreach tool.

Shoot me a mail if you’re interested in hearing more. I’ve got a few churches lined up as beta testers but we’d love to have more feedback. We expect to officially launch this app in late August…

joe

By: What’s all this hype about Facebook? (Part 2) at LifeChurch.tv : swerve

What’s all this hype about Facebook? (Part 2) at LifeChurch.tv : swerve — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:41:09 +0000

[...] I’m glad many of you joined Facebook yesterday (and thanks to those that added me as your friend). Hopefully you’ll learn a lot and develop some new relationships. If you have not joined, you can read about how in my first post of this series. [...]

By: Anne Jackson

Anne Jackson — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:25:32 +0000

This blog is certainly lacking estrogen. There has to be some women lurking…show thyself!

I know there are a lot of “mom blogs” and stuff like book clubs which are predominately female, and there are some women in ministry blogging, but as far as church leaders go…lotsa guys.

By: Ryan Hukill

Ryan Hukill — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:01:06 +0000

Man, it’s cool to see all the ideas of how Facebook can be used in day-to-day ministry. I personally started using MySpace a couple of years ago as a way to communicate with our youth and also to “spy” on them as Amy mentioned. It really is a great way to keep up with what’s going on with them since they’re so plugged in.

I guess I should add you all as friends, huh?

By: Jimmy Paravane

Jimmy Paravane — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:05:37 +0000

Bobby,
It’s a good answer with or without the quote marks. I’ve found Lifechurch.tv to be extremely different, fascinating, frustrating, challenging, anything but just another “Christian version�? of a church. OK. I’ve gotten a little bored with the lack of meaningful interaction on both Myspace and SecondLife lately. I’ll check out Facebook. I saw an interesting story on NBC Nightly News tonight. It said that only 35% of men in the U.S. say they attend weekly religious services .Traditionally, the Internet was the domain of mostly men. I doubt that’s true now, but I wonder how the stats hold up in the Christian interactions in online communities.

By: Bobby Gruenewald

Bobby Gruenewald — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:57:50 +0000

Jimmy,

Funny.

If you put quotes around non-”Christian” similar to how I intended it in my statement…I’d hope the answer is LifeChurch.tv

By: Jeremy Farmer

Jeremy Farmer — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:19:04 +0000

Facebook is the ddddddddevil.

Great post, Bobby.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:04:13 +0000

Joe,

I’m with you all the way. Groups are very limited but, as you said, it’s as good as we are going to get for now.

By: Joe Louthan

Joe Louthan — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:02:31 +0000

Adrian,

Unless I am using groups wrong, I tend to think that groups are not powerful enough. If something happens in the group (discussions, wall posted, etc.), I don’t get informed on it.

But for right now, groups is as good as we are going to get.

By: Hope

Hope — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:50:40 +0000

I’m so glad to hear your willing to guide us through it. I’ve been signed up for about 2 months and haven’t done a thing because I find it to technical to navigate, okay - I just don’t know what I’m doing. Lot’s of people at Lifecentre are registered. I’m hoping to get people from my company connected (to Facebook and Lifecentre).

By: Jimmy Paravane

Jimmy Paravane — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:31:19 +0000

Bobby Grunewald said: “I’m usually (personally) not a big fan of building something that is the same, just “a Christian version�? since it seems a bit contrary to what Jesus did.”

I’m sorry Bobby, but I just can’t resist. So, what’s the non-christian version of a church? (grin)

By: Casey

Casey — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:18:18 +0000

Facebook has been going crazy within the last year.. , Just last week it had its first acquisition Parakey. Which is a ‘web OS’. Where you will have something similar to a virtual desktop. Where you can store and work with photos/music/contacts from any computer. It will be really interesting to see what they do with it.