8 Tips For Building A Teen Approved Facebook Page
This is an amazing post that list the * ways you can have a teen approved Facebook Page. Although this post has to do with Teens, much of it can be applied to other age groups. please pay close attention because there are a lot of ways this can be used for ministry and our approach to you programs in general.
1. Humanize Your Page
2. Associate with the Right Brand Crowd
3. Seed Your Product
4. Meet Your Audience in Real Life
5. Speak the Language
6. Invest in Content
7. Utilize Facebook’s Native Mechanisms
8. Socialize All Your Media
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3 Great Ways to Repurpose Your Articles on Your Blog For More Traffic
By: Jeff Herring
Blogging and article marketing go hand in hand. In fact, one of the most frequently asked questions I get is “can you use your articles on your blog?”
The answer is not only a huge YES! In fact, if you are not using your articles on your blog you are leaving tons of traffic on the table.
3 ways to repurpose your content on your blog
1) Entire article/parts of your article – You can repurpose your entire content into a blog post. It’s a great way to create lots of blog posts when you have lots of articles. While you can do this, it’s generally not a strategy I recommend.
Why?
Because you can get more than one blog post out of your content. You can turn most articles into a blog series. If you have have written a 7 tips article, that can be a 7 post series on your blog. You can also turn your sub-headings in your content into a blog post series.
2) Begin the article – Another strategy that I recommend is to begin your article in a blog post and then use the “more tag.” Instead of placing the entire article in one blog post, you can begin the article in a post on one page and then finish it on another page in your blog.
In a WordPress blog you use the “more tag” for this, and all good blogging platforms have a way to do this.
And don,t just cut off the article in just any place. Build some “article intrigue” but continuing as your article at a crucial point so the reader will be excited to read the rest of your article.
3) Blog to EzineArticles – This is my favorite blogging strategy to use to bring a ton of more traffic to my articles. In this strategy you begin the article on your blog. Make sure you use a compelling title to capture the reader’s attention. Then at a crucial point in the article you invite the reader to “click here to read the rest of the article” and send the to your article on EzineArticles.
When I first began to experiment with this strategy, I wondered if people would mind going more than one place to read an article. The consistent feedback I get is that once you have captured their interest they don’t mind being directed somewhere else to finish the article.
You can see examples of how I do this and get many more great tips and videos on my blog at http://FromtheDeskofJeffHerring.com
From Jeff Herring – The Article Marketing Guy
Tags: You are appreciated
Often times we go through life and never tell the people that support us how much they are appreciated. Well today I would like to say real loud YOU ARE APPRECIATED. Enjoy your day
Sharing in Google Docs
Sharing documents have never been easier -One of the most pressing issues with business or ministry is being able to seamlessly work with your team, especially if you are in different places. Here comes Google Docs. Google Docs allows you to share documents across multiple platforms.
I have been using Google Docs for about 1 year now and it has drastically increased our productivity here in the office. Having a common repository allows multiple people on my team to work on projects together. This gives us quicker turnaround and better synergy. No longer do we have to wait or look for a document on someone’s desk or desktop. Or if you are like me, I work on multiple computer in the course for the day – Google allows me to start a document on one computer, move to another computer and pick up right where I left off.
Oh and it is free. This is a great way for a ministry to get started without having a great big outlay of cash. But don’t take my word for it. Take a look at the Video Below.
Grandmother’s guide to video chat
One of the best uses of technology is the ability to connect people. In today’s blog, I want to highlight an article written by Google bloggers – A Grandmother’s Guide to Video Chat. What a great way to make a great connection and to stay connected. Watch the video below
This video, along with a printable guide, can be accessed at http://www.google.com/chat/grandma. Feel free to share this link with your grandma—or grandpa—or, well, anyone who wants to video chat to help get them up and running.