Reading: Technology and Hospitality (The Video Slides)

Technology and Hospitality
by Henry Reyenga

Social Media is Here to Stay

Social Media is About People

It is a new relationship highway.

It is a directory with pictures

It offers new opportunities for encouragement

It is a communication tool

It is a leadership development tool

It is an evangelism tool

Social Media

1. Get a Simple Profile:   Facebook

2. Invite your friends, these sites even have figured out how you can do that easy as ever.

3. Be a producer not a time waster

4. Tag, Connect, Communicate the Culture of your Church 

5. Chat for a few minutes, be sensitive about interrupting people

6. Longer Chats are excellent and will save you a meeting.

7. Take interest in birthdays and click through your church attendee profiles

8. Click the “like” button as often as you can but only when you mean it.

9. Be Encouraging and not negative

10. Use the Event Features to communicate another threat of invitation

11. Set up a closed private not secret group.

12. Post pictures and encourage your church members to post pictures of events at the church.  You have replaced a newsletter but with all sorts of volunteers having fun.

13. Share prayer requests

14. Share your messages

15. Share your life

Twitter Versus Facebook

Facebook is more horizontal, Twitter is more vertical. 

Facebook has expanded out to multiple list or groups.

Setting Up a Group on Facebook

You be the administrator

Set the Ground rule going in.  See the sample ground rules I have included as a file in this section.

Evangelism

After you connect with someone, ask them if you can be their Facebook Friend.

Take an interest in their life

Invite them to events that you are involved with

Facebook Social Media Boundaries

• If you really got this going you can be on this all day, don’t be

• Get a Smart phone to give virtual updates when you have something to say.

• Keep real life meetings as a central feature of your hospitality

• Don’t flirt or be bold in an inappropriate way

Updates

• Bible Verses out of your walk with God

• A cool quote from a book

• Window into your interesting life

• Post articles that you think will bless others

• Comment on others as much as possible

• Tag to recognize encouraging aspects in others life

• Post Church media regularly