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18 Ways Pastors Can Ruin their Reputation on Facebook (Part 2)

By Paul Steinbrueck Mar 30, 2011 204247 Comments2011-03-30+11%3A22%3A21Paul+Steinbrueck

Pastors, Facebook is a great way for you to build relationships with people both inside your church and in your community. But every time you post something, you risk offending someone. So, avoid doing these 18 things on Facebook. (#9-18)

church, social networking

authenticity, engagement, Facebook, pastors, reputation

18 Ways Pastors Can Ruin their Reputation on Facebook

By Paul Steinbrueck Mar 29, 2011 2041330 Comments2011-03-29+15%3A19%3A53Paul+Steinbrueck

church, social networking

Facebook, pastors, reputation

Social Networking Sites Benefit Pastors, Congregations in Many Ways

By Paul Steinbrueck Nov 13, 2009 10423 Comments2009-11-13+18%3A21%3A23Paul+Steinbrueck

The Alva Review-Courier, based in the megalopolis of Alva, OK (pop 4,848) published an article today entitled Social Networking Sites Benefit Pastors, Congregations in Many Ways. The author if the piece, Kathleen Lourde, interviewed several pastors in Alva as well as some guy with the same name as me.

It explains many of the benefits to pastors using social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, and Twitter.

church, social networking

pastors

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Which best describes your organization's approach to assessing the value/ROI of social media?

We diligently track the source of all sales/goals so we know what social media is producing.
We look at trends. If our use of social media correlates with an increase in our sales/goals that indicates it's value.
You can't put a dollar value on relationships and so we don't try to assess the value/ROI of social media.
We're doing some tracking of the source of sales/goals, so we have some numbers, but we also recognize there's more to the value of social media than those numbers.
We're experimenting with social media now. We'll tackle the value/ROI issue once we get a better idea of what we're doing.
We know we should be trying to assess the value of social media, but we just don't know how.
We're not using social media.

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