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		<title>More Ideas for Twitter &amp; Your Church</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anthony Coppedge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A wonderful discussion was started over at TwiTip, an excellent Twitter resource site. This is a main-stream site and they&#8217;re talking about using Twitter for churches! Love it! Here&#8217;s a few of the ideas they tossed out for discussion. Be sure to read the entire post: Showcase your staff: On your organization’s “staff” page, give [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A wonderful discussion was started over at <a href="http://twitip.com"><strong>TwiTip</strong></a>, an excellent Twitter resource site. This is a main-stream site and they&#8217;re talking about using Twitter for churches! Love it!</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a few of the ideas they tossed out for discussion. Be sure to <a href="http://www.twitip.com/twitter-for-churches-and-non-profit-organizations/">read the entire post</a>:</p>
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<li><strong>Showcase your staff:</strong> On your organization’s “staff” page, give clear links to those that are on Twitter.  This is also a good place to link to their profiles on other social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.  <a href="http://www.mtbethel.org/staffalpha.php">Here’s ours as an example</a><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1719" title="staff-listing" src="http://www.twitip.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/staff-listing.jpg" alt="staff-listing" width="452" height="250" /></li>
<li><strong>Summarize your staff tweets:</strong> Zappos does a great job of <a href="http://twitter.zappos.com/employee_tweets">showing off their employee tweets</a>.  <a href="http://kentbrewster.com/twitterati/">Kent Brewster has a script</a> that can be plugged into almost any site to create a similar thing.  To make it work, create a new twitter account and have it follow all of your staff members (and no one else).  Plug that new twitter account into the script, and <a href="http://twitter.mtbethel.org/">voila</a>!</li>
<li><strong>Show live chats from events:</strong> A simple hash tag can go a long way.  At a recent youth event, we enouraged people to use a hash tag when discussing the event, then we pointed parents to the Twitter search results page for that hash.  It was very popular, but you run the risk of a bad apple saying some inappropriate things, and it can’t be cleaned up if you’re using this method.</li>
<li><strong>Tweet from retreats, events or mission trips:</strong> A great way to keep the people at home informed is a Twitter account dedicated to that event (like our current <a href="http://twitter.com/mtbethelecuador">mission trip to Ecuador</a>).  The advantage to this over a hash tag is that parents and other concerned parties can subscribe to that user can get updates on their phone.</li>
<li><strong>Post weather-related news:</strong> If you have ongoing weather-sensitive events, such as outdoor sports, create an account dedicated to field conditions.  Our <a href="http://twitter.com/mtbethelrec">recreation update</a> account is often very quiet, but it’s worth gold on rainy Saturdays in the summer.  It saves a LOT of phone calls from wondering parents.<br />
<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1718" title="rec-update" src="http://www.twitip.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/rec-update.jpg" alt="rec-update" width="421" height="264" /></li>
<li><strong>Post your blog entries:</strong> While the best Twitter interaction is personal, some users are losing interest in RSS feeds and just focusing on Twitter.  Point your blog to a Twitter account as an alternative to RSS and e-mail subscriptions (<a href="http://www.mtbethel.org/blog/">blog</a> to <a href="http://twitter.com/mtbethelumc">twitter</a>).  If you use WordPress, <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-tools/">Twitter Tools</a> is an excellent plug-in.  If not, then <a href="http://twitterfeed.com/">twitterfeed</a> can do the job.</li>
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