Social Media for the ScaredDr Bex Lewis, Digital FingerprintURL: http://j.mp/socmedscared May 2013 for: http://www.churchcommstraining.org

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Let’s “tweet” each other…

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What do many people think digital is about?

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What is Social Media? http://youtu.be/MpIOClX1jPE

http://bigbible.org.uk/2012/12/the-popes-first-week/

WHY BE ONLINE?

“Fish where the Fish Are”Image Credit: http://www.seedresources.com/view/images/men-fishing-on-rock-outcrop-amidst-breaking-waves-muriwai-beach

https://www.youversion.com/bible/294/mat.5.13.cevuk

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Digital Literacy

• "digital literacy defines those capabilities which fit an individual for living, learning and working in a digital society”

http://www.theconversationprism.com/media/images/convoprism-poster-highres.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXD-Uqx6_Wk

http://www.fredcavazza.net/files/2013/04/Social_Media_Landscape_2013.jpg

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/social-media-explained-with-donuts

Source: Facebook

Source: Netcasters

Source: Netcasters

• An incredible new technology enables the transmission of text on a worldwide basis. It rapidly reduces production and distribution costs and for the first time allows large numbers of people to access text and pictures in their own homes.

• The new technologies will bring ‘every individual… into immediate and effortless communication with every other’, ‘practically obliterate’ political geography, and make free trade universal. Thanks to technological advance, ‘there [are] no longer any foreigners,’ and we can look forward to ‘the gradual adoption of a common language.’

http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Students/lcs9603.html

• “Furedi suggests that moral panics have a tendency to occur ‘at times when society has not been able to adapt to dramatic changes’ and when such change leads those concerned to express fear over what they see as a loss of control.”

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http://digital-fingerprint.co.uk/tag/digitalparenting/

#DigiDisciplehttp://bigbible.org.uk/digidisciple/

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http://bigbible.org.uk/digidisciple/

• Whether as a Christian or a digital explorer, you’re a newbie or an old hat, a rookie or a bishop (and in the digital sphere, there will be some who fit in all categories), we all have something to contribute to the digital space. The concept of the digital as ‘space’ or a ‘culture’ is important as we come from a perspective in which:

• As Christians we live 24/7 for God, in whatever spaces we live in or engage with (see LICC for more on this).

• There is no such thing as ‘virtual’ and ‘real’ worlds: only online and offline space/cultures – the connection between the two is different for each individual.

• We need to take seriously our Christian presence both online and offline.  Are we the same person, living by the same values in both ‘spaces’?

Love thy neighbour?

• What does it mean to ‘love your neighbour’ in a world in which a ‘friend’ might as easily be the kid from down the street you grew up with as a woman in Botswana whom you’ve never seen in person and only know in the context of Facebook status updates, photos, and notes? What is the nature of community at prayer in a compline service tweeted each evening by the cybermonks of a Virtual Abbey? What is the ecclesiological and liturgical significant of worship in various churches across the theological spectrum on the quasi-3D, virtual reality site ‘Second Life’? How can we negotiate spiritual interaction in these contexts without losing sight of basic elements of Christian faith expressed in traditional embodied and geographically located practices of prayer, worship, and compassion towards others?

• Tweet if You Heart Jesus, p.xiv

http://bigbible.org.uk/2012/10/evangelism-through-story/

http://bigbible.org.uk/2012/09/wisdom-from-the-bible-on-building-a-digiparadise-by-vahva/

Possibilities & Fears

The Fruits of the Spirit…?

What Biblical values do we want to see in our (digital) world?

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Don’t look to “publish” but engage in a CONVERSATION

http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1382970

Human Beings at Machines, not “are machines”

http://www.sxc.hu/photo/192333

Who is your audience?

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What’s in the toolbox?

http://www.slideshare.net/drbexl/an-overview-of-social-media-january-2013

TWITTER

http://pinterest.com/pin/39265827973911808/

http://pinterest.com/pin/39265827972774002/

https://twitter.com/biblesummary

https://twitter.com/ccwinch

https://twitter.com/Natwivity

https://twitter.com/spckpublishing

https://twitter.com/c_of_e/

Twitter Essentials

• Tweet: 140 Characters• ReTweet: (RT) • @username• Trending Topic• #Hashtag

http://www.slideshare.net/drbexl/twitter-13863450

https://support.twitter.com/articles/14589-how-to-add-your-phone-via-sms

http://www.slideshare.net/drbexl/daily-twitter-workout

FACEBOOK

http://edudemic.com/2013/03/find-out-if-youre-an-average-facebook-user-with-this-image/

http://www.socialbakers.com/facebook-statistics/united-kingdom

http://www.socialbakers.com/facebook-statistics/united-kingdom

https://www.facebook.com/drbexl

What can you do on Facebook?

• Find friends• Post status updates• Comment on others photos• Post & Tag people in photos• Offer pastoral care• Leave public messages on the ‘wall’• Send private ‘messages’• Join Groups, Like Pages• Link to other social media• Set up events

The power of ‘Like’

‘Amongst Friends…’

http://edudemic.com/2013/03/find-out-if-youre-an-average-facebook-user-with-this-image/

https://www.facebook.com/TheBibleUBS

https://www.facebook.com/TheBibleUBS/info

BigBible: Page

BigRead: Group

Event

• http://digital-fingerprint.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Setting-up-a-Facebook-Account.pdf

• http://digital-fingerprint.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Facebook-Like-Page.doc

• http://www.slideshare.net/drbexl/facebook-13863451

https://www.facebook.com/help/

BLOGGING

Blog Characteristics?

• A reverse diary (most recent entry first) • A publically accessible personal journal• Reflections, comments and hyperlinks• Commentary/news on a particular subject• Text/Image/Links including media• Interactive, especially comments• Potentially informal tone

• “See what we’ve been up to”• Thoughts & Reflections• Reviews (Books, films, websites,

etc)• Challenging ideas for debate• Interviews (Text, Audio, Video)• ‘Best Of’ Content• ‘How-to’ Posts• 10 things you can… • Guest Posts

GET INSPIRED…

http://krishk.com

http://richardlittledale.me.uk

http://bishopalan.blogspot.co.uk

http://nickbaines.wordpress.com

http://clairemaxim1.wordpress.com

http://pamsperambulation.wordpress.com

Think About

• Who are you blogging for?• How often can you blog?• What style of blog will you use?• What content can you produce?• What do you want Google to find?• Who else can you bring on board?

http://digital-fingerprint.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Setting-up-a-WordPress-Account.pdf http://www.slideshare.net/drbexl/blogging-with-wordpress-for-odhe-jan-13

http://youtu.be/8j-Iy8fP0Ek

YOUTUBE

http://www.jeffbullas.com/2012/05/23/35-mind-numbing-youtube-facts-figures-and-statistics-infographic/#

http://www.slideshare.net/drbexl/youtube-13863454

http://www.youtube.com/mybigbible

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYXGVzPydF8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jQzO3zz7bc&list=PLjWKarwbR4dwD7YOkI6LJnIDmQJjvLk2e&index=11

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lXh2n0aPyw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzIBZQkj6SY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FtZkVRkusQ

http://youtu.be/a5lBd5uQ4jM

ONE LAST TOOL…

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COPYRIGHTReally important to be aware of…!!

IMAGE SOURCES (E.G.)…

• http://www.seedresources.com• http://www.flickr.com/creativeco

mmons• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wi

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• http://www.sxc.hu• http://rgbstock.com

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When? It takes TIME… Source: http://www.rgbstock.com/download/lusi/mgyp0Lm.jpg

Strategise

•Which Media? •Who?•How often?•To achieve what?

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