2012-02-06T10:21:24-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com http://www.gospel.com/feeds/topics/facebook http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/6880 2012-02-06T10:21:24-05:00 Is 'change' the same as 'ruin', as the infographic below might suggest? It is certainly the contention of Nicholas Carr in his book The Shallows, and some other commentators, that our brains are being rewired by the Web and social media, and not always in a good way. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/5988 2011-10-24T13:23:20-05:00 Interesting world map compares population with IP addresses (click to see full size). http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/5826 2011-10-01T15:18:03-05:00 "If you’re not paying for it, you're not a customer. You're the product being sold." So says the Consumerist Blog, in relation to Facebook, Google, or any other "free" online service. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/5599 2011-09-19T11:25:46-05:00 There are multiple ways that different people use social media and the Web in general. Be aware that people are very different in their personality types, needs, demographic and online behavior. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/4542 2011-06-13T16:11:21-05:00 Social media can be a confusing and fragmented communication niche. Facebook, for instance, is an almost ramshackle accumulation of features and counter-intuitive usability options. For example 'Like' means three things depending on context. 'Like' a fan page means 'become a fan'. 'Like' a webpage or blog post means posting a summary on your own Facebook Wall. 'Like' a Facebook post means little, and doesn’t share that post with your friends. http://truewoman.com/?id=1670 2011-04-15T10:34:46-05:00 Even though I haven’t caved to the Facebook draw, this past month Twitter caught me! http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/3973 2011-03-23T16:02:54-05:00 Christian media producer CVC is exploiting the exponential growth of social media and online video. Their new YesHEIs.com website offers Christians a categorised range of third-party evangelistic video clips. Here at last is a one-stop source of approved conversation-starting video clips we can easily share on Facebook (or other social media), embed in a blog, or download to a smartphone to share one-to-one. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/3915 2011-03-17T17:17:56-05:00 @stickyJesus is a dynamic new book about sharing faith online through social networking. Tami Heim and Toni Birdsong are gifted writers and communicators. Their blog tag-line 'keeping it real & living sticky online 4 Him' sums up their vision. 'Sticky' reflects their desire that the message should be shared in such a way that it clings to people's hearts. Heim and Birdsong 'get' social media. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/3171 2011-01-06T15:20:37-05:00 Paul Butler, an engineering intern at Facebook, took 10 million pairs of friends and created a data map to show which cities had a lot of friendship between them. What you are looking at is nothing less than a picture of God’s heart and purpose for the world, though the Web. It’s a snapshot of 500+ million people, made in God’s image, doing one of the things we need and were created for – to make relationships. And using what is now the most visited website on the planet. It’s also a powerful reminder that the majority of these people are in relatively unreached countries, and many may have no face-to-face Jesus-follower friends at all. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/3015 2010-12-11T15:33:02-05:00 If you have a Facebook fan page, you absolutely must check what landing tab/page people arrive at if they are not already fans. Best way to do this is open the Facebook page in a different brand of browser – for instance the excellent Chrome – and do not log in to Facebook. That way, you will see what non-fans see. You may be surprised to find that what they land on is the Info tab/page, which may contain limited and unenticing information. And yes, this may happen even though, in the Edit Page permissions, you have set ‘Wall’ as your landing page for non-fans.