#ChSocM Transcript: Training Your Church's Social Media Team

We chatted about setting up the optimal

team for social media success.

This week's chat moderated by Neal Fischer (@nealffischer)

Topics: 
T1: Who should be involved in your #chsocm decision-making team and what areas of expertise will they help to provide?
T1a: Do you have the right people available internally to make this happen? If not, what outside resources would help you? #chsocm
T2: What are some questions you’ll need answered in order for your Church’s #chsocm training to provide a consistent message?
T2a: What are your goals when training staff/volunteers for #chsocm? What would you like them to be able to do?
T2b: What training would you require your staff/volunteers complete in order to have access to official #chsocm accounts?
T3. How would you measure the #chsocm staff/volunteers consistency and ability to reach your objectives?
T4. Once you have a training program in place, what steps would you take to keep the info. current and consistent for your #chsocm team?
T5: Where will you house your #chsocm team training materials?

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#ChSocM Chat Transcript: Vacationing From or With Social Media

Take a vacation, don't take a vacation,

how to take a vacation? We discussed

all of this and more!

This week's chat moderated by Jason Chesnut (@crazypastor)

Topics:
T1: Have you taken a vacation in the last year? (Kidding. Just a reality check. Don’t answer that one, y’all.)
T1: *When* you have taken vacation, have you taken a “vacation” from social media as well?
T2: What’s something you noticed when you took a break from social media (or chose not to)?
T3: What are the positives/negatives related to taking a break on social media, especially as it relates to church?

Some great themes are emerging -- the importance of taking a break for some, the seamless nature of online and f2f for others.

T4: Bible sourcing time! What biblical stories relate to these themes?
T5: So. We’ve all heard it. “Take a break from SM. Stop looking at your phone. Connect with the world around you.” Response?

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#ChSocM Chat Transcript: Assessing Value and Choosing Conferences

Assessing value and choosing 

conferences/workshops for #chsocm

This week's chat moderated by Meredith Gould (@meredithgould)

Topics:
T1: IYHO, what makes any conference/workshop worth attending?
T1a: Choice between attending in person or via livestream, which do you choose? Why?
T2: What do you most hope to get from a #chsocm conference/workshop?
T2a: What’s an absolutely must have at a #chsocm conf/workshop?
T3: What would cause you to run screaming from a conference/workshop?
T3a: How could conference/workshop planners fix this?
T4: How has social media changed what you expect and want from conf/workshops?
T5: Recommendations for conf/workshops/presenters?

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#ChSocM (Church Social Media) Chat Transcript: Getting Re-centered and Refreshed

We focused on getting re-centered and refreshed

when the pace of church communications ministry

becomes overwhelming.

Tonight's chat moderated by Katy Dunigan (@kdunigan)

Topics:
T1: As church communicators/leaders, how often do you feel overtasked & overwhelmed? (Be honest!)
T1A: You regularly share your energy w/others via Social Media & IRL, what ways do you feel it coming back to you?
T2: Share your strategies for creating & maintaining healthy professional boundaries to protect yourself & your family?
T3: How do you know when it's time to step away & re-center? T3A When you need to refresh & re-center, where do you go?
T4: Some mentioned meeting w/friends as a way of re-centering. Do you regularly connect w/mentors & colleagues?

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Too many people want too many things too soon?

#ChSocM (Church Social Media) Chat Transcript: Managing Resistance, Negativity and Other Buzz Kills

Looks like there's still a "hermeneutic of suspicion"

when it comes to church and social media. We chatted

about best practices for dealing with naysayers.

This week's chat moderated by David Hansen (@Rev_David)

Topics:
T1: Worst reactions to new tech/social media that you have seen in ministry.
T2: What are your best practices for getting the naysayers on board? #chsocm
T3: At what point do you decide that the institutional resistance to #chsocm is too much to try and overcome?
T4: What are your best practices for working around institutional roadblocks/resistance?
T5:What is the thing you want to brag about from your #chsocm ministry this summer?

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