Comments on: WANTED: Social Networking Summer Missionaries http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/2009/06/17/wanted-social-networking-summer-missionaries/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wanted-social-networking-summer-missionaries Teaching, rebuking, correcting & training in righteous web design. Mon, 26 Sep 2011 02:56:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Rich Brown http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/2009/06/17/wanted-social-networking-summer-missionaries/comment-page-1/#comment-4347 Rich Brown Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:17:38 +0000 http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/?p=2306#comment-4347 MTW (Mission to the Word, the PCA's missions arm) does not even allow most of its participants to use cell phones while on missions trips, so Twitter is out! MTW (Mission to the Word, the PCA’s missions arm) does not even allow most of its participants to use cell phones while on missions trips, so Twitter is out!

]]> By: Steve Baker http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/2009/06/17/wanted-social-networking-summer-missionaries/comment-page-1/#comment-4346 Steve Baker Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:25:45 +0000 http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/?p=2306#comment-4346 We are using a blog, mobile me, twitter, audioboo, firepin, and ustrem this year to try to stay connected with the group back home. We are leaving Saturday. I'll let you know how it all works. We are using a blog, mobile me, twitter, audioboo, firepin, and ustrem this year to try to stay connected with the group back home. We are leaving Saturday. I’ll let you know how it all works.

]]> By: Nicole Sparkman http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/2009/06/17/wanted-social-networking-summer-missionaries/comment-page-1/#comment-4327 Nicole Sparkman Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:40:01 +0000 http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/?p=2306#comment-4327 Hello! Your article coincides with a research project I am doing this summer-- I'm a junior at California Lutheran University, and I am trying to document successful/ not so successful characteristics of online networks currently being used by churches. I came across Fairfax Baptist Church (attached link is to their website) and when I saw their site, they had a twitter widget on the front page with updates from their mission trip to the Dominican Republic. They no longer have the widget up, but I do have a snapshot of it if you would like me to e-mail it to you. You could probably contact them about it; I'm sure they would give feedback! Regards, Nicole Hello!

Your article coincides with a research project I am doing this summer– I’m a junior at California Lutheran University, and I am trying to document successful/ not so successful characteristics of online networks currently being used by churches. I came across Fairfax Baptist Church (attached link is to their website) and when I saw their site, they had a twitter widget on the front page with updates from their mission trip to the Dominican Republic. They no longer have the widget up, but I do have a snapshot of it if you would like me to e-mail it to you. You could probably contact them about it; I’m sure they would give feedback!

Regards,
Nicole

]]> By: Rich Brown http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/2009/06/17/wanted-social-networking-summer-missionaries/comment-page-1/#comment-4319 Rich Brown Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:15:34 +0000 http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/?p=2306#comment-4319 Hey Dean. We have been using Blogger since 2004 to chronicle our summer missions program. http://impact.aisquith.org. We love it because the participants now have a link they can enclose in their fund raising letters to show prospective donors videos and pictures in a way that a letter could never do. Also, nervous parents whose teens are 2,000 miles away have a way to check in on them from time to time. We have no failure stories, but posting from areas where broadband is rare (Santa Ana, Mexico where most of the population has no electricity) can be interesting. A single paragraph post announcing our safe arrival too me two hours one time! By the way - we relaunch 6/30/3009 using WordPress. Here's a sneak-peak: http://www.aisquith.org/wordpress Rich Brown Hey Dean. We have been using Blogger since 2004 to chronicle our summer missions program. http://impact.aisquith.org. We love it because the participants now have a link they can enclose in their fund raising letters to show prospective donors videos and pictures in a way that a letter could never do. Also, nervous parents whose teens are 2,000 miles away have a way to check in on them from time to time.

We have no failure stories, but posting from areas where broadband is rare (Santa Ana, Mexico where most of the population has no electricity) can be interesting. A single paragraph post announcing our safe arrival too me two hours one time!

By the way – we relaunch 6/30/3009 using WordPress. Here’s a sneak-peak: http://www.aisquith.org/wordpress

Rich Brown

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