7 ways your youth ministry can use twitter effectively
1. Information, Information, Information….Use it as a free communication tool that can inform parents, leaders and students of upcoming information.
2. Assign several staff/volunteers to be mobile journalist and capture real-time certain events and programs your ministry does through twitpic and text.
3. Use the #hashtag feature which will allow people in your ministry to see what is going on at #yourstudentministry when they search for it on twitter
4. Have your youth pastor/leaders twitter, which will humanize them and allow parents and students to see how they live their lives throughout the week.
5. Create a twitter account for your ministry and link it to your website….this will help to generate users.
6. Start conversations or ask questions that you want students in your ministry to be thinking about…perhaps something from a previous series).
7. Have an event like camp where you encourage students to sign up for twitter and twitter their experiences throughout the week using a special #phrase. Once setup you would post the tweets on a screen for everyone to see using a special program or website.
www.twitter.com to sign up
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