I’m a 2T
They spelled my name wrong.
I have 2 t’s in my name.
After crying for a few hours I have pulled it together enough to teach my 2 classes.
1. Introduction to Social Media as a Ministry Tool.
2. Leading Your Team Through Social Media
Most of you would not be in class uno seeing that you already are introduced to Social Media as a ministry tool.
But if you were sitting my my class of 30,000, and I called your name, what would you want to know?
OK. Maybe 30.
Los
RAIN IT DOWN
Q: “Are you going to call Mom?”
This reminds me of a music educators conference that I went to a few years ago.
A friend of mine registered for the conference early in the school year and said that his middle name was “Danger” – with the quotes. When he showed up at the conference several months later, his name tag said Bill “Danger” Roberts (I changed his name, btw). Not only that, but since he donated $2 to the scholarship fund, his name was printed in the program – again as Bill “Danger” Roberts. A lot of the music teachers in the district gave him a hard time about that for a long time.
I need to write about this on my own blog.
I am sorry but that is pretty funny… it isn’t like they don’t know who you are over there… I am a 2-T’er and a 2-L’er also and often I get a mix of one or the other.
Good luck on the classes
That is to funny, I was going to type ” why have you not called me” and then I saw your mom up top. Ha! Is your phone broken. The ladies want to talk to you.
H
Welcome to my life, and potentially what will happen in the lives of your children… the torture of a misspelled name. In my case, more often than not misspelled AND mispronounced. Kirsten… with the “Kir” rhyming with “beer” (when I say this, it catches people’s attention). It is horrendously awkward and it feels like it’s not really you when your name is misspelled or mispronounced. I feel for you today!
Reese is my last name. You would think with Reese Cups and the rest of the Reese brand that people would assume your name is spelled with and “s” and an “e”.
Assumed wrong:
Rees
Reece
Rese
Reis(i know, this would be the LAST way I assumed)
One day someone will get it right on the first try.
http://www.vagabondrunn.wordpress.com
My one question would be this, please understand this is in no way a slam on social media, because I love it! I whole-hearedly believe that it engages people in worship better than any other format of worship….bar none. But my question is how do you make sure that you teach those that you lead in worship that worship is about Jesus and not about production value. Cuz it seems like that is what we scream. It’s a fine line that I have found that is very hard not to cross. It’s hard to keep myself from going crazy in my ministry at my mega church where I have been blessed with great and abundant resources and am constantly wanting to add something new.
Jaffrey=right. Jaffery, Jaffreys, Jeffrey, Jeffery, Jeffries and all the other combinations=wrong.
Is this session going to be like the podcasting and blogging session in 06 when I came to learn about podcasting, but you taught on blogging for the first 50 mins and then remembered that “podcasting” was also in the title of the seminar and so we squeezed 25mins of podcasting notes into 15 mins (we ran over) of time? Is it?
I hope so, cos it was awesome. It got me blogging. Thanks blogfather.
i hate that… every single day of my life someone spells or says my name wrong. every day. my parents had to be “original”. that’s what happens when you’re born in the 60’s…
Blogging/Social Media is a great tool, but maybe I’m too “old-school” — Could you explain how it “engages people in worship better than any other format of worship” — or for that matter, at all?
Here’s my question…
How do you move from a continuing connection and ministry opportunity to people once you’re to that point online, to where you’re actually doing it in real life?
The transition process of just keeping up with who needs what kind of help/counsel/whatever seems to be an integral part of moving people from usernames and profile pics to people in the chairs with you at coffee or in church.
Thanks!
Here is what I would be looking for:
Intro: Social Media definition and examples
1. Benefit: What you gain from social media with a team?
2. Hook me up: If I was on your team, what would our social medial communication look like including tools)?
3. Baby steps: First steps to get started
4. Time wasters: Social Media tools and practices that suck away time
Concl: Twitter them the conclusion.
Dude – I think I just wrote your seminar. “Throw me a freakin’ bone here.”
Hey – hope you rock it well!!!!
Hey don’t feel bad. Your name is not Linebarger. People alway, or almost alway misspell it. Ahhhh, Limberger, Limeberger, Linbarjer, etc. I got over it.
Texas Ron Linebarger
If I was a total noob I’d most likely be overwhelmed by how many choices there are – blogging, digg, twitter, flickr, the list goes on.
I would want to know what is the fist and most minimal thing I can do to get involved w/ web 2.0 that would require the least effort/time commitment?
Hey Carlos! See you soon at your workshop; will you be live-streaming via ustream.tv or something? I don’t have a webcam, so I can’t
Hey Carlos,
⌘F flips the image in Photobooth, so that text doesn’t look mirrored…
I understand pretty darn well the advantage to using Social Media as a Ministry Tool, but what I want to know is how do you explain the importance of it to other people who don’t get it? Lately, a lot of people tell me that using Social Media is a “generational thing” so they don’t really try to learn or want to hear why it’s helpful. However, I’m one of the youngest bloggers in my blog and twitter network and I’m 23. Help! I want people to understand, so they can take advantage of this awesome ministry tool too!
That’s funny. I just Twittered about that today. I have two “D’s” in my name. Everyone misses that. It makes it hard when I own the website http://www.ronedmondson.com.
perhaps I should by the one without the second D also and point it to the correctly spelled Domain.
Dude! One of my really good friends is at that conference for work purposes…his name is Brandon Snell. Maybe he’ll manage to meet you. I just texted him and told him to sit in on your sessions. I think the two of you would have much to discuss, if you get the chance.
People spell my name incorrectly quite often, as well.
Q: What would you say to the person who would like to blog but doesn’t think they have anything to say?
Q: How do you as a pastor draw the line between being totally authentic and remain appropriate?
(as a long time ragamuffinsoul.com reader…I know your answer to the second question….it’s actualy an answer posed in the form of a question….”What line”?)
Seriously….2 good questions to address..
I am a 1L… Here in the Us people almost always assume that I am a 2L and I have to go “M-A-R-C-E-L-0″ :0)
my name is Katharine Camille- but I go by Cami- that’s right, a nickname of my middle name. so when the doctor, teacher, official, etc calls “Katharine”, I just reply, “I go by Cami” which results in:
-Candy?
-Tami?
-Carrie?
And I’m all, “No, it’s Ca-Mi”
and then we start in on the spelling:
Cammi
cammie
camie
cammey
camy
kammie
seriously.
Just Cami.
Dude, I’ll spot you a t. Seriously, it’s no problem.
Aw. I feel ya. I’m a Carie, with 1 R. No one, and I mean no one, has ever spelled my name correctly. It’s trivial, but it hurts, ya know?
I think social media allows us to reveal to any of our “friends” (meaning coworkers, neighbors, business contacts, etc) how we live our lives.
As we blog and tweet, we show people that a relationship with Jesus Christ doesn’t exempt us from life on Earth. They’ll see that we get frustrated or angry, that we struggle with sin.
In short, social media allow us to show people that not every Christian is Ned Flanders.
That’s not too bad, I got an email today from a class I’m attending this weekend that was addressed:
Dear, Ms. Jerry Crespo,
I wonder if I should play along and walk in with a wig and a purse?
Cool teaching this class with you. I got the notes up on my blog from my part of it.
Seriously, Kameron would have had a meltdown over the T thing. At our church we have to sign them in every week and they print off name stickers for the kids (let’s not talk about how much paper and ink that wastes every Sunday). Without fail, EVERY week they get Kameron’s age group wrong. It should say Kindergarten and for whatever reason it ranges anywhere from 2 year olds to pre-k to 3rd grade. They are always baffled because no one else’s gets mixed up… just my kid… with Autism. And every week he melts down while the poor volunteer tries to fix it. *sigh* I can’t wait until the day that he can suck it up and move on… who knows, maybe he’ll still meltdown when he’s 30. His wife can fix it for him then! haha
Totally random comment, I know! Sorry!
Sorry about the name problem. You wouldn’t believe how many spellings there are for Jesse.
I would like to know if there are any heuristics, or rules of thumb, for how to estimate the ROI for learning and engaging in this technological stuff.
Any kind of way to think about the ROI of social networking, or this kind of stuff, would be very helpful!!!!
29 comments no made 30.
Congratulations, you’ve met your class attendance goal!
I would ask, something to the tune of, “how far is too far in social networking ministry? at what point does the difference between cyberland and real life face to face interaction?”
In response to article in last months collide mag.
well ya look more like a 24mo. to me…
question:
do you believe that the use of social media will eventually take over from “hands-on” ministry? and…how do you stress this and advise to keep this from happening.
just saying because for the most part…we’re a lazy people. (that was a totally general, broad statement)
Mish
ok so..i just went back and read the comment before mine.
oh bugger…
bleah.
Hi Los,
Here’s my one question about leading with social media…
How do you get buy in from those you are leading to use the social media. I’ve built a blog for my team, posted resources there, spent many hours ensuring it is a media rich experience, and emailed the team endlessly about new posts and resources. By the stats, no one goes there, and no one has ever commented. They don’t seem to get the “concept” of a blog.
Stuck, and a bit frustrated.
the class was great. my dad even enjoyed it, and he just learned email this last year. great stuff.