I must admit… I’m a Twitterholic. I’ve been twittering now for a few months, and I love it. It’s a great way to stay informed with the “by-the-minute” life of friends, family and people you admire. Have you ever wondered what goes on in the life of ________? Well, Twitter has made this dream come true.
“Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates – otherwise known as tweets – which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length” (Wikipedia). Awesome example of Web 2.0 at its best!
Not only that, I am able to sync my Twitter account to my iPhone using the awesome Twitter application, “TweetDeck“. And this makes me a happy camper (lol). It’s neat, clean and works well with my phone. Now I can get all my updates on the go. An amazing platform for aggregating mobile conversation.
So, with that said, here’s my question to you..
How can the Church leverage this kind of technology both inside and outside of their services? How can church leaders and staff use this to conduct informal meetings or to keep each other informed?
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Daniel July 19, 2008
Great question. I was actually reading recently about a church that’s twittering out sermon notes during the message and allowing people to interact. I thought that was pretty cool.
When I was at Whiteboard I was not yet into the whole twittering thing (that’s actually where it was birthed for me), but, a good friend was and people were posting tweets like crazy. Interacting, posting thoughts, convictions, excitement, all that. Pretty awesome because none of those people knew each other but where instantly connected in community. I saw several people meet each other for the first time that had been twittering for a while. Cool stuff.
I think that you can definitely leverage that and use it pretty effectively. What if every morning a church twittered a daily devotional thought. Or, like that church did, twitter sermon notes. Not fear service disruption, but actually integrate it in the service. Make people feel even more connected. Update people with urgent prayer needs and announcements. So much you can do.
My name is Daniel, and I’m also a Twitterholic…