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Twitter growth? 1382%

Friday, March 20th, 2009

Cnet News has a short, but fascinating article about the fastest growing company today, Twitter.

Respected ratings giant, Nielsen, said Twitter grew 1,382% from February 2008 to February 2009. Facebook was in second place with a still impressive 228% growth over the same period.

If your church leadership hasn’t heard about Twitter by now, they’re quickly becoming the minority. It’s time – nearly past time – to learn about Twitter for churches. Make sure your church leader has a copy of “The Reason Your Church Must Twitter” E-book for only $5.

Twitter Webinar with WFX

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

Thanks to everyone for joining the webinar I taught for WFX on using Twitter and social media for churches. We had over 800 registered and 518 unique log-ins (with several people sharing connections) during the hour-long WebEx session.

I want to apologize for the microphone issue for the first 12 minutes. I had no way to monitor how I sounded and didn’t realize the problem’s cause until the moderator, Carol, helped sort it out. The entire webinar was recorded, so if you can turn up your speakers a bit and listen carefully for those initial few minutes, it does clear up and is very easy to understand after I fixed it.

In fact, to watch and hear the webinar, simply click this link: http://budurl.com/TwitterWebinar

I answered as many questions during the Q&A as we had time, but I’m more than happy to answer any questions that we didn’t have time to answer during the webinar. Feel free to post your questions in the comments below or send me a question to either @churchtechie or @anthonycoppedge on Twitter.

Thank you again for learning alongside me as we leverage technology & communications to effectively communicate the Gospel of Jesus!

Twitter for Churches Launches…

Friday, January 16th, 2009

I’m very excited about the launch of the TwitterForChurches.com website, home to my new E-Book “The Reason Your Church Must Twitter”. I hope that the conversation here and the information in this E-Book can help churches to leverage this amazing social media tool to make their ministries more contagious!

The team here – Anthony, Nathan & Evan – have created version 1.0 of this site and E-Book. Because technology changes constantly, we’ll be adding updates to both regularly. Once you buy the book, you can come back for free updates (later revisions) and, most importantly, share your thoughts, experiences, questions and comments right here on this blog.

I have intentionally kept the price of the E-Book extremely low – five bucks – because I know how many volunteers, part-timers and even staff will hear about this resource before it comes to the attention of their church leadership. It’s affordable for everyone.

Additionally, we’ve included a unique license for churches:

We fully license churches (or volunteers) to buy a copy for a staff member and share it with their volunteers for free. For example, if your church has three staff that could benefit from the book, then please pay the ridiculously affordable $15 and give out copies like free candy to your volunteers!

Thank you for supporting this E-Book. I truly hope that you find it to be simple, practical and effective in helping your church leverage Twitter for ministry!

- @anthonycoppedge