Selecting Who Will See Your Facebook Posts

There are times when you want to post a picture or a status update that you just don't want everyone to see. Sometimes you want only a select person or group to be able to view your update. Other times, there will be just a couple people, or group or list of persons you don't want to view your update. Facebook allows you to send posts in such a way that you can specify either of these options. 

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Managing Friends with Facebook Lists

It has recently come to my attention just how few people know that you can make lists of people on Facebook. Of those that know such an ability exists, even fewer understand why this is important, and how to make it happen. For those in the ministry, managing lists of Facebook friends can be vitally important to healthy relationships with parishoners, both from current and previous churches.

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New Blog URL - powerthechurch.net

Just a quick update for everyone who follows this blog - the URL has been changed from .COM to .NET. 

So, the new address is www.powerthechurch.net

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Tools to Reach New People (part II)

Monitoring your social network accounts to ensure you are reaching as many of your followers as possible is important. Using social media within the church can be a huge waste of time if those who you are trying to reach never see what you have to say. CrowdBooster is a great option for monitoring your followers. But if you are really seriuos about utilizing analytics to help your social media ministry, check out Sprout Social.

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Tools to Reach More People (part I)

We you think about tools that may help your ministry more effectively communicate with your followers and reach new people in social media, utilizing tools that take the guesswork out of when and where to post is a necessity. There are a few different online tools that you may find helpful. The point of such a tool is to track when your followers are online, and to tell you when is the best time to post to reach the most followers. Another important part of these tools is to help you see which posts generate the most activity so you can construct better posts in the future. These statistics, along with some of the other features of these sites, will help your church's social networking presence more concentrated, more effective, and more time responsible.

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