May 12
Thanks to Twitter, it’s possible to share short, bite-sized updates about your life
and follow the updates of people that matter to you via the web. Find out what
your friends are doing at Twitter.com. Watch the video to the right for a full
explanation of how twitter can connect all of us.
You can follow your updates of friends and family in a number of ways. They
can be sent to your phone, desktop and or mobile device. It is a quick and
effective way to get information out.
Consider that your little infomercial. Now for the practical aspect of how this
can help take us as a church to the next level in our communication and
technology. You might be thinking what’s the point, who cares? The point is
this – it is a great way to communicate and mobilize. Let’s just say that we
wanted to mobilize a large number of people quickly to give an hour on a
project. With a simple stroke of a few keys you will have gotten word out to
everyone following you. Wow! What a great tool. This is just one of the many
ways in which Twitter can be used. Or let’s say that a huge snow storm blew
in and we had to cancel service. This would be a quick and effective way to
communicate that.
I am going to encourage everyone in our church to sign up today – even my wife!
Click here to sign up and follow.
- posted on 24/08/2010 11:53:00
Strange as it might seem to let who ever is interested know what you are doing almost all the time, twitter has been a great tool in keeping up with some of the day to day lives of my friends. Some of my high school friends I follow and it has actually been very helpful in just quick messages to them.
The nice thing too is that it is not as complex as some of the other social networking sites like Facebook or Myspace, which can take time to learn and actually some effort to get set up.
Twitter is easy, fun, and I think worth the time to use, especially when trying to stay connected to what is happening in a digital generation.