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Repurposing Content for Maximum Impact

Image by The Library of Congress via Flickr The gospel is to be communicated. This is evangelism. By what means should this communication happen? I get the feeling from the Apostle Paul that it’s “by all means” (1 Corinthians 9:22). Paul preached and spoke as he traveled the Roman roads from city to city. He [...]

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Survey Reveals 5 Opportunities for Churches on Facebook

Image via CrunchBase Most respondents indicated they don’t think their church is doing a particularly good job with Facebook. While those results could be perceived as negative, a closer look reveals some big opportunities for those churches willing to embrace the world’s largest social network. Communicate More – Clearly people would like to see their [...]

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Four reasons your Executive Director should be on Twitter

Image via CrunchBase Executive leaders at nonprofits should put community engagement via social media as a top priority in their job descriptions. They need to get their hands dirty. But more often than not they don’t. A broken model? Usually, staffers do the “dirty work” with social media while management gets a debrief on ROI. [...]

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Easy Posting for Blogging Experts and First Timers Alike

I´m pleased to share with ThePRLawyer audience another amazing tool for public relations and marketing professionals called posterous.com. This website is designed for just about anyone to post music, videos, pictures and content on the Internet just by sending an email. There are options for first-time bloggers with simple instructions to get started and more [...]

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While you were sleeping 3/6/2010

Image via Wikipedia A long time fan of the blog, the drawerist, reacted strongly to the name change of my daily summary where I ‘connect the dots’ for you, so I have re-changed the name of the feature back to ‘While you were sleeping’. She is, after all, the one that makes e1evation.com so good [...]

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Ummm. Tell me again why I want to use social media to market my brand?

Image via CrunchBase What’s this? “Nielsen recently released a new report that officially documents what many of us already know, just never substantiated through data. According to a study published at the end of January 2010, Nielsen observed the online social activity of consumers around the world and discovered an 82% increase in time spent [...]

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Some straightforward thoughts on social media…

…from Wisconsin social media guru [no, that's not an oxymoron!] Dana VanDen Heuvel… “Social media is an umbrella term for online technologies that connect people through networking, according to Dana VanDen Heuvel, founder and president of the Marketing Savant Group, Green Bay.” Source: Social media connects organizations, customers | greenbaypressgazette.com | Green Bay Press-Gazette He [...]

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TGIM 2/8/2010

I love Mondays! I get to go back to work at my quiet office with a supercomputer and a fast internet connection! Can’t wait… In the meantime, Lifehacker is rating the five best Podcast managers… “Podcasts offer a fantastic way to catch up news, listen to radio shows, and get great media delivered right to [...]

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Teens break up with blogging…

Image via CrunchBase …and start flirting with Twitter! “A new study published today by Pew Internet finds that teens and young adults are blogging less and using social networking sites more, with the prominent exception of Twitter. Pew’s Report surveyed 2,253 American adults and 800 U.S. teens to get a reading of how they use [...]

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Websites and social media

Image via CrunchBase I’m fond of saying “the answer is rarely either/or but frequently both/and”. Mitch Joel talks about the roles and relationships of websites and social media and how the answer may be both/and… “There are two schools of thought when it comes to marketing brands online and the presence they need. 1. Build [...]

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