Comments on: Campus Facebook Strategy

By: 4 reasons why Gen Y leaders can turn the world upside down! | The Christian Messenger

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:14:44 +0000

[...] to find ways to ‘force’ people to their site they’ve focused their attention to become more relevant on Facebook. Why? Simple. They wanted to go where people are and not force them to come where they are. It’s [...]

By: Melissa

Melissa — Mon, 17 May 2010 16:09:20 +0000

Facebook is working for us BIGTIME. We also purchased a cheap URL that directs our people quickly to our facebook page.. Example… http://www.YourChurchFacebook.com

Two way communication is the key!

By: Rethinking Facebook | Lessons From Babel

Rethinking Facebook | Lessons From Babel — Thu, 13 May 2010 16:53:09 +0000

[...] more is how churches and ministries respond. Many ministries (such as Lifechurch) have begun to heavily commit to using Facebook. I am working with two organizations right now who are considering heavy work inside of Facebook. [...]

By: How to Customize Facebook For Your Children’s Ministry. | Sam Luce

How to Customize Facebook For Your Children’s Ministry. | Sam Luce — Mon, 03 May 2010 15:45:28 +0000

[...] was first inspired to give it a try for our own children’s ministry after reading a blog entry from LifeChurch.tv that explained how they were using Facebook fan pages instead of web pages for their church’s [...]

By: The Way It Could Be » Taking The ME Out of Social MEdia

The Way It Could Be » Taking The ME Out of Social MEdia — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 02:40:10 +0000

[...] who for some time has engaged its people through social media and more recently through a fully Facebook-integrated website. We still have MUCH to learn, but are spending more and more time engaging people “where they [...]

By: Larry

Larry — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:32:15 +0000

We are exploring on how to expand social media on our site. We currently have some very active pages through community or staff starting some pages on their own, but nothing official. Personally, I use Facebook but I try not to post any personal information or have any personal pictures of my family on Facebook. I use it mainly to follow some communties I am interested in. I believe there should be a way for non-FB people to look at FB especially with reports of some people offlining from FB.

By: Brent

Brent — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 03:15:17 +0000

It’s not a huge disadvantage if you’re not on Facebook. Although you can’t post, you can still look at all of the content on a fan page.

I was inspired by this post to give it a shot myself. Now our children’s ministry URL points directly to our landing page on Facebook (http://www.paradisechurchkids.com). Very little skill or special software required!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:51:10 +0000

We only use and recommend Hester Designs. Mr.Hester has an amazing heart for the Lord and his work is award winning. They have a great ability to put social media to work far beyond our ideas. http://www.hesterdesigns.com

By: Non-Profit and Ministry Basic Training for Facebook Pages | tonysteward

Non-Profit and Ministry Basic Training for Facebook Pages | tonysteward — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:19:14 +0000

[...] I mentioned yesterday LifeChurch.tv is launching a whole new strategy to leverage Facebook Pages globally for local ministry. Above is one of nine training videos you can find at Open (Free Church Resources) and on the Open [...]

By: David Delker

David Delker — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:35:52 +0000

We have been using Facebook for about 6months and I love it our people check it often and what an easy resource to keep updated and to keep in touch!

By: Jimmy Hankins

Jimmy Hankins — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:03:13 +0000

What I find really fun about Facebook is it’s attempt to bridge the gap between the many faces we present to the world. Social, Work and Family. And now you all want to bring Church into the mix. As always, it should be fun to watch. Just remember; Network unto others as you would have them Network unto you.
So, what are you guys gonna have your transparency settings on? See how I switched transparency for privacy? (grin)

By: Jason Curlee

Jason Curlee — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 03:37:25 +0000

Bobby…love how y’all are always on the leading thought and implementation of excellent web social media strategy.

Facebook is the way to go for any church or campus to connect with others in an awesome way.

By: Joe Yokeley

Joe Yokeley — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 02:24:37 +0000

We just had our web, facebook, and twitter re-done with a welcome page much like yours. http://www.facebook.com/riverchurcharcadia We are very excited about using facebook more to connect to guests and our own folks.

For all those asking about how to do the custom welcome page. That was a little above our head, so we had it done for us. I would highly recommend the guys we went with: leprint express. Ask for Brian, he is awesome to work with.

http://www.lpexinc.com/category/media-solutions/

By: Tunde Usidame

Tunde Usidame — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:39:48 +0000

Hi there, how were you able to make your facebook page look so nice? Is there some customization software you use?

By: Jason Minton

Jason Minton — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:32:16 +0000

Would love to know how you are doing the Welcome and Dashboard pages as well. Our primary site is running on Drupal and we also have a very active FB page; but would love to enhance it by adding more!

http://facebook.com/achurchforyou

Thanks!

By: joshbrown

joshbrown — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:31:30 +0000

Bobby, We’ve been exploring a similar concept at the Y. The problem is, though, that not everyone is on Facebook. Do you feel this is limiting who can be a part? Or are you going to provide training available to everyone on the Web site for how to connect to Facebook if they haven’t already?

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:24:18 +0000

Due to boundaries I must have in my life - I personally can NOT have a FaceBook account. Also, at my job - they block all social network sites. Actually, one of the few “live” video feeds I can view is the LifeChurch Church Online experiences (yea!).

Hopefully, you will take into consideration people that do not have FB access - and keep another portal open also.

Just my 2 cents - and with inflation - that ain’t much.

Bob

By: Mark Ahrens

Mark Ahrens — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:13:27 +0000

We have a church FB page found at: http://www.facebook.com/GraceLutheranChurch?ref=ts

We use it to:
- post a follow-up sermon question people can “comment” on
- have people RSVP for upcoming events (and invite friends)
- post links to our weekly church email
- post links when our audio/video sermon is online
- post photo albums from ministry events

Would love some more ideas on how best to use it.

By: Zachary Foster

Zachary Foster — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:02:54 +0000

Hi everyone, I work on the Digerati team here at LifeChurch.tv, and was one of the key players in this project. I want to take a second and reply to everyone who has been asking how we built out our pages and where you could start.

-First off, the Digerati team here at LifeChurch.tv built the two custom pages. Our pages have a lot going on behind the scenes to make them more then just simple static custom Facebook pages. We are pulling from a few databases to pull in our staff profiles, times, events, and current series information. With all this going on, we ended up going down the road of making the pages a Facebook app instead of using Facebook’s FBML (their version of HTML) to build out static pages. So figure out what will work for your needs!

Knowing that not everyone has access to an internal team, I want to give you some options. First off, Google ‘Facebook custom pages’ and start walking through examples and what it takes to produce a custom page. Facebook has some great documentation on how to start ( http://developers.facebook.com/ ).
Second, find examples that you like and look for a site credit. You’ll find some good companies that way. A GREAT example that we used as a go by in our project was Soul City Church’s page ( http://www.facebook.com/SoulCityChurch ) this is done by Monster Eyes ( http://monstereyes.com/ ) who have done a few other church projects and their customers have great things to say about them.

hope that helps, and can’t wait to see what you all start coming up with!

By: Jared B

Jared B — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:59:57 +0000

I have to say that just earlier this week I was thinking about how awesome the integration is getting with LifeChurch & Facebook. I’m a LifeChurch OKC’er/volunteer.

The integration is amazing. It’s fun. It’s interactive. This will bring the body of Christ at LifeChurch closer together.

I think it would be awesome if we could integrate Lifegroups a little bit more into the Facebook system. Right now, I feel Lifegroups (for those who aren’t in them) are becoming somewhat hidden.

How can we integrate Lifegroups into the campus Facebook groups and create interactivity?

Possible idea: Just like the campus staff is shown on the “Dashboard” tab of the FB page…maybe we could have a “Lifegroups” tab. Similar to having the staff’s pictures and facebook links, we could have links to the leaders of Lifegroups. (If possible, I’m not sure if it is, make a “FB message ‘em!” box for communication)

I think this would be a GREAT implementation.