Wishing all of our readers a Happy and Blessed New Year!
We’re thanking God in advance for our blessings in 2010!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1CIY7-YnGo
Know who you are and whose you are. You were born for greatness. There is no limit to what you can do through Christ Jesus!
God Bless,
Kenneth Lillard
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Wishing all of our readers a Merry Christmas and a Blessed and Prosperous New Year!
Let me leave you with this Christmas interview with Trin-i-tee 5:7 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D66BEreKpyE
God Bless You,
Kenneth Lillard
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YouTube is a video sharing website created in 2005. It’s motto is “Broadcast Yourself”. In 2006, YouTube was bought by Google.
Users can upload and share videos on the website. While unregistered users can view the videos, registered users can upload an unlimited number of videos.
The link below will show you how to upload a video to YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O7iUiftbKU
The following Mashable article describes a new YouTube service: http://mashable.com/2009/11/17/youtube-direct/:
Always use YouTube with love, and to the glory of God. Never use it in a hurtful or harmful manner.
Know who you are and whose you are. You were born for greatness. There is no limit to what you can do through Christ Jesus!
God Bless,
Kenneth Lillard
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As we continue our series on the basics of social media, we will take a look at getting started with MySpace.
MySpace is one of the most popular social networking websites in the United States. It has over 100 million users worldwide.
What is MySpace? Check out this brief tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQMmMutdoSI
The link below will take you to a video on getting started with MySpace.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdwMt7WrYJ8
Always use MySpace in love, and to glorify God!
Know who you are and whose you are. You were born for greatness. There is no limit to what you can do through Christ Jesus!
God Bless,
Kenneth Lillard
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We are continuing our series on understanding the basics of social media. This session will highlight LinkedIn.
LinkedIn is a social networking site that is focused on business. Founded in 2002, it is mainly a vehicle for professional networking. It has over 50 million registered users and spans more than 200 countries.
View the video below to get started with LinkedIn.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQs1P547vlU
Always use LinkedIn in love, and to glorify God.
Know who you are and whose you are. You were born for greatness. There is no limit to what you can do through Christ Jesus!
God Bless,
Kenneth Lillard
Filed under information, networking, social media
We are continuing our series on understanding the basics of social media. This session will focus on Facebook.
Facebook is a social networking website which was founded by Mark Zuckerberg and a group of fellow Harvard University students to get to know their new classmates. It has since evolved and grown to over 350 million users worldwide. In 2009 Compete.com listed Facebook as the most used social network on the planet followed by MySpace.
Facebook users can add friends and send messages. They can update their personal profiles to let their friends know about themselves. Users may join networks organized by school, workplace, city, or region.
To get started on Facebook take a look at the video below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4yu1XJQP50
Fot more advanced instructions on Facebook check out the Mashable Facebook Guide http://mashable.com/guidebook/facebook/
Always use Facebook in love, and to glorify God.
Know who you are and whose you are. You were born for greatness. There is no limit to what you can do through Christ Jesus!
God Bless,
Kenneth Lillard
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We are continuing our series on understanding the basics of social media. Today we’re spotlighting Twitter.
Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service. Users can send and receive messages of up to 140 characters, called tweets. Twitter was created in 2006 by Jack Dorsey. It is rated in the top 50 most popular websites worldwide.
Check out the link below for a video on getting started with Twitter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0xbjIE8cPM
For more advanced applications and ideas on Twitter check out the Mashable Twitter Guide http://mashable.com/guidebook/twitter/
Always use Twitter in love, and to glorify God.
Know who you are and whose you are. You were born for greatness. There is no limit to what you can do through Christ Jesus!
God Bless,
Kenneth Lillard
Filed under information, networking, social media
“The just shall live by faith.” Romans 1:17
Media. noun, plural of medium, (usually used with a plural verb) the means of communication, traditionally used to refer to radio and television, newspapers, and magazines, that reach or influence people widely: The media are covering the speech tonight.
Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube. It seems everyone is on them today. What do they all have in common? They are all part of what we call the new social media. We are entering an era of what some call the Attention Age where social networking employing social media is taking over. The old era of industial media or traditional broadcast and mass media is declining. The faith community is becoming more aware of this media transformation. It is beginning to understand its tremendous implications. And it is making serious efforts to comes to grips with it.
The next several blog postings will deal with the basics of this rapidly evolving social media. What are they? How do they work? And how do they relate to the Christian community today?
Social media are media designed to be shared or spread through social interaction or social networking. One of social media’s earliest associations was with LinkedIn, which applied it as a business tool in 2004. When faith-based social interaction or networking occurs between Chistians it is called fellowship. When it is from Christian to the unchurched it is called evangelism. For Christians social media should always be employed in love, and used to the glory of God. It should never be used for harmful, hurtful or ungodly purposes.
One of the basic characteristics of social media is they are created using highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques. Generally, social media tools are available to anyone at little or no cost. Currently, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube accounts are all free. You can use them to reach one person, a small group, or a global audience. Christians can use these social media tools to share information about events, ministries, scriptures, affirmations, sevices, Bible Study, conferences, evangelism, etc. In a word, social media can be effectively used to fulfill the Great Commission of sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ with the world. (See Matthew 28:19-20).
Social Media use internet and web based technologies to transform social networking from a broadcast (one to many) format into a social networking (many to many) format. So this allows for not only sharing information and messages, but also for interactive social dialogue. Instead of preaching at people, social media allows for dialogue between people to allow for more understanding, creative collaboration, and elaboration on specific topics, situations, and solutions.
With social media communication can be instantaneous without any lag or delay. It can be via many forms including internet forums, weblogs, social blogs, wikis, podcasts, pictures, video, rating, and bookmarking. Technologies include blogs, picture-sharing, vlogs, wall-postings, email, instant messaging, music-sharing, crowdsourcing, and voice over IP.
Social media transform people from consumers of content to producers of content. It supports democratization of knowledge and information.
Business refers to social media as User Generated Content (UGC), or Consumer Generated Media (CGM). The faith community refers to it as Faith Generated Media (FGM) or Faith Based Media (FBM). Without question, the potential for using FBM as a tool to spread the gospel, love our neighbors, and glorify God is virtually unlimited. This blog explores some of the many, exciting ways that Web 2.0 tools are creatively applied to ministry and the community of faith. (For more on Web 2.0 check out the excellent wikipedia article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0 .)
Know who you are and whose you are. You were born for greatness. There is no limit to what you can do through Christ Jesus!
God Bless,
Kenneth Lillard
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When the subject of social media comes up, there is always a lot of discussion about the generation gap that exists within it. For a new generation that was raised on computers, video games, YouTube, Twitter, Myspace, and Facebook, “grown folks” don’t always get it! There’s definitely a gaping divide there. And while this is not the only one, it is certainly one of the most glaring.
Have you heard of the “blackberry prayer?” Check out this interesting discussion from rollingout:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0gKV2VQEFA
Too often, we sleep on the power and impact of social media. The faith community needs to get more wired (or wireless, as the case may be) and get more involved. It is, most definitely, crucial to connecting with the youth, i.e, the future church. There is tremendous untapped potential in social media networking. No question, the business community “gets it”! And it uses social media to full advantage. What about the church? Do we “get it”? That’s the $64 question. And the answer must be a resounding “Yes”!
In Matthew 18:19, Jesus gave the Great Commission, telling the disciples, “Therefore, go and make disciple of all nations…” In social media, we’ve been given an amazing resource! It’s up to us to work it. It’s alright to tweet the Word! Amen? Amen.
Know who you are and whose you are. You were born for greatness. There is no limit to what you can do through Christ Jesus!
God Bless,
Kenneth Lillard
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William Kamkwamba’s amazing story is an inspiration to all who have dreams that, many say, are unattainable. For some reason the word quixotic comes to mind. We’re sometimes ridiculed, and often told that we’re just “tilting at windmills” like Don Quixote in Cervantes’ classic novel.
Regardless of what others may say, don’t give up on your dreams! Check out William’s incredible story below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arD374MFk4w
http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/william_kamkwamba.html
The Apostle Paul affirms, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Philippians 4:13. And I know that’s right!
Know who you are and whose you are. You were born for greatness. There is no limit to what you can do through Christ Jesus!
God Bless
Kenneth Lillard
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FAITH BASED MEDIA 2.0 