Social Media Ministry

A Christian Perspective: Social media provides a way for Christians to connect with other Christians around the world allowing them to provide each other friendship, love and support. Christians believe strongly in the power of community, in fact, it is an understanding that one cannot change the world without interacting positively with others. Some Christians may live in remote areas of the world or in countries that are predominately non- Christian therefore, social media sites may allow them to connect and feel part of the Christian community regardless of their location.

Individuals and companies can freely interact and share information. Social media has led to building of human relationships that have brought many people together. People in different

What I find interesting is just how under estimated LinkedIn is. The more popular Facebook, Twitter, YouTube get all the hype and attention while this gold mine quietly sits and grows and grows. My guess is that because it is a professional networking site it doesn't have the universal sex appeal of the others, but a savvy sales and marketing executive knows - or should know the power of LinkedIn.

LinkedIn is a rather new social network with room for growth and improvement in many ways. As the company grows, the more likely uses and enhancements will continue to grow as well. First, adding a geographical map to show people close to you who use LinkedIn would come in handy when trying to network with people in your area. Secondly, adding video conferencing would be ideal for companies who would like to use LinkedIn as a way to communicate to their current employees similar to GoToMeeting. Thirdly, trending topics and news feed following changes within your industry and circle of interests would benefit users that would like to stay updated.

    First, Social media can be very informative with what is going on with the news. I know personally when I wake up the first thing I do is check my Instagram. One morning when I logged on, I saw all the celebrities I was following saying prayers for Las Vegas. There was a shooting in Las Vegas that left 59 victims dead and many others injured. I check apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to get my news for the day and stay up to date on what is going on around me. This is a great of example of why I think social media can be used in a positive way also. By celebrities posting pictures saying prayers for Las Vegas this makes people curious of what happen, which then makes them want to google the incident. Since these celebrities use

Social Media is a thriving popular platform. Many people use it; including businesses, schools, radio stations and churches. The platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat have become so popular many Christians are participants. Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat are social media platforms, which people can communicate, invite others to events, message individuals and post pictures. Christians and churches use the social media platforms in order to spread the word and biblical knowledge. Christians are able to reach audiences such as Generation Y and millennials. Christians should use social media in order to share service announcements, videos and uplifting quotes. Social media can be cathartic for people, who are experiencing

One way that social media has helped people is it has worked as an emergency call system similar to 9-1-1. How this system worked was people would tweet out they were in trouble, or need assistance and twitter accounts such as @harveyresucue, during hurricane Harvey, would take the data and compile databases of addresses and names of folks in critical need throughout the storm. Then it would find and attempt to send them help. In the article “Please send help” by Maya Rhodan, Rhodan writes, “‘I have 2 children with me and the [sic] water is swallowing us up. Please send help,’ a woman named Maritza Ritz Willis tweeted early Sunday morning. As 911 dispatchers were not responding, she decided to share her address with her 463 followers and posted a call for help on Facebook. A little over an hour later, she tweeted ‘Got picked up by the fire rescue,’ Ritz Willis shared.” (Rhodan 1) In this article, it shows the effect that social media has already had in times of

Social media allows us to connect to people all across the world. It allows us to stay connected to friends and family who are far away and people who are somewhat close that you may not see often. For example

LinkedIn is a business oriented social media website that enables people to network themselves on a professional level to others; it is to link businesses, clients and peers together in a professional manner (Edwards et al. n.d). LinkedIn provides a great opportunity to build company credibility and visibility. LinkedIn offers a service where a company can request recommendations from customers, employees, etc., which will enable a company to gain credibility. Not only that, but this feature will allow New Nordic to potentially increase business connections as well as connect with other companies (Flannagan, 2013). By combining the recommendations received from businesses, clients, and employees, and the augmented amount of connections, New Nordic’s credibility will increase, thus they will be able to attract and connect with relevant sponsors or businesses. Because New Nordic only shared one post over two months ago, New Nordic must update their followers more frequently, roughly once a month, in order to captivate followers and demonstrate that they are still active on LinkedIn. Moreover, LinkedIn added a new feature called Endorsements. This new feature will

Augustine is warning churches today that use social media to make sure the rhetoric is consistent with scripture and there is no compromise. While there are certain words that are germane to social media, the rhetoric must remain couched in scripture and not just modern day cyber language. Social media is an innovative tool which can be used to share the gospel.

The use of social community geared towards the external community, rather than current church members, significantly increases the participation of young adults within the denomination. The use of social media towards an external audience gains members as more people obtain knowledge about the church. Through an external focus, the church can increase community knowledge about what is going on within the church. It is an

The sharing of cultural information allows groups of people to interact and collaborate successfully. The ways of popular culture, by song, music, instruments, etc. is used to harmonize and come together as a religious entity. This type of culture has been around for centuries, and now through social media, has the power to connect strangers with similar beliefs. It also gives insight into worlds unbeknown to others, information and clarity to certain myths and misunderstandings of religious practices. Of course, too much of something can be harmful. With all types of information comes the responsibility to transcribe and not

Since we are given these incredible tools to communicate, we need to use them. An example of a time that social media was used for good was last year when the Stop Kony campaign was trending on twitter. At it’s most popular time, #StopKony was tweeted more 1200 times a minute. The Stop Kony marketing team created a video as an experiment, having no idea that they would change the

LinkedIn was started by Reid Hoffman in 2002. LinkedIn is about helping customers be more

LinkedIn Corporation is the company to study. LinkedIn Corporation operates as a corporation, owned by shareholders. It was founded in 2003 by Reid Hoffman and four others in Mountain View California. The company provides a web-based site for career management as well as professional networking activities. The main objective of the LinkedIn application is for the business to make a profit based on our use of the application. In regards to the users, the main objectives of LinkedIn are to develop a professional network by building a professional profile, nurturing your growing network and generating a professional reputation.