Yes, just last week I put up a post entitled Why Not to Use Twitter, The truth is I think twitter can be a great tool to use for your church. Here is the first of several examples of how we are using twitter.
Our youth director recently set up a twitter account for the youth group. We then embedded the feed into our website using the badges twitter provides. When our group took a trip to St. Louis recently our youth director posted updates and pictures during the trip. Our members were then able to go to the website and follow the youth on their journey.
This had several benefits:
1. Church members could feel like they were connected to the trip.
2. Several members began using twitter and now follow the youth group and the church, and other members, expanding our connections
3. We embedded the twitter feed into our website. This exposed new people to our website, not only to the twitter updates, but to the rest of the site.
Follow us
Williams Memorial UMC
Williams Youth
Russ Bowlin-Youth Director
Russell Martin- Me
What are some of the ways you are using or could use twitter?
Related posts:
would it not be better to be creating a network around the church entity so there is a conversation, versus some sounding board?
i’ve used the twitter for missions/youth trips since it came out. my people who don’t use twitter still don’t get it.
So is that the question of “Should you get people to come to your site, or take your site to people?” We have found in the past year that more visitors are going to the site, members are getting info through e-news, facebook, twitter etc.. good thoughts….