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This episode features a conversation with Josh Burns with a bonus segment of my best tips for churches thinking about launching an Internet campus. Josh Burns, Director of Web and Social Media at Park Community Church (Chicago, IL), explains how he gets paid to do social media for a church, the philosophy of how his church uses social media as a means to connecting people into face-to-face relationships, and how to know if your church’s social media strategy is effective.
Show Notes
Connect with Josh Burns at his blog joshburns.net/blog or twitter @jburno
Park Community Church is on Twitter @parkchurch, Facebook facebook.com/parkcommunitychurch, and Instagram @parkchurch; here’s some articles that mention them:
- Texting – A Churchly Activity (network.crcna.org 2/4/2012)
- Church Spotlight: Park Community Church (Collide Magazine 11/23/2009)
- Churches connect with parishioners online: Twitter and Facebook help with marketing and communication (Chicago Tribune 10/30/2009)
- Churches ask members to turn their mobile phone on during church (The Christian Post 6/18/09)
watch Real Social Media Ministry’s Interview with Josh Burns of Park Community Church
Getting Started: Josh Burns (ChurchMarketingSucks.com 10/15/2012) – about working in church communications
Churches blogging about life-change stories: Park Community Church’s Transformed Lives, Mars Hill (Seattle), The Austin Stone, NewSpring
[...] [iii]: The church has a story to tell the nations. A typical church has an amazing amount of capacity that’s dormant among the many people that are gathered in the weekly attendance. Many of these people have a voice (or artistry) to communicate valuable content to the whole wide world though the world wide web. In other words, churches have more than sermons and worship songs to share with the world. Churches are beginning to share real-life stories as an integral part of their church communications, as I’d mentioned 4 examples on Social Media Church podcast episode 21. [...]