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Very helpful thoughts Brian, thanks! I’ve often had similar thoughts about my Facebook profile vs pages and groups. I started a page awhile back but never really put too much effort into promoting it because I just figured more people are seeing my profile anyways. Now, with the Typepad blog I can post to it and it syncs with my profile AND Twitter! I’m definitely going to look into mailchimp though. I still use distribution lists in Outlook and they are OK but fairly cumbersome.
thanks scott. your experience with pages is pretty much the norm.
i think once you get set up on mailchimp you will see how different and easier they are to manage than outlook.
thanks for the comment!
Brian, interesting thoughts. I think you are making a good point.
Something I struggle with in this regard is that I don’t want my Facebook profile to come across as extremely missionary like. I have non-Christian friends and want to use my social media presence to develop a platform that influences non-Christians, not only talks about my missionary activities, which might also turn away non-Christians.
How do you suggest balancing these two?
thanks russ.
i’m in the same boat as you.
i think of my profile in terms of an outpost (chris brogan’s term)–a place i want to maintain but the purpose of maintaing is to drive people somewhere else.
our homebase for ministry updates is our ministry website–thebarelafamily.com
we sometimes share the link from our mailchimp newsletter, but even better is viewing the source of the mailchimp letter, copying and pasting the html in a page on our ministry website, and then sharing the link of that page on fb.
the other really simple and non-threatening way we like is using pictures–they communicate so much, give people a great idea of what we are up to, and they do not come across as a “push” kind of ministry message.
most of the positive feedback we get from supporters is around the pictures and videos we share–either in paper or online form.
i’m really starting to be intentional about capturing and sharing our ministry via images as much as possible.
what do you guys do to balance?