Would You Use A Student / Youth Ministry Hashtag? #StuMin
Feb 23, 2009 Social Media, Twitter
I woke up this morning to find @3amjosh asking this question on Twitter:
Little did I know that there’s been a kid’s ministry hashtag (#kidmin) in use since February 3rd – and it’s been fairly widely adopted. So why haven’t us student ministry people been using one? Well, for one, it might be because of the method that we choose to update from. With so many people using SMS to update their status these days, it becomes a chore to A) remember to use the hashtag and B) fit it in with the other content of our tweets. Also, at one point should we use it and and what point should we not? Just because we in one way or another work in student ministry doesn’t mean that all of our tweets should be labeled that way, does it? Don’t get me wrong – I think it’d be great to aggregate all student ministry tweets. The best possible would be just like Zappos does it, having people in student ministry submit their usernames to be included in the stream. I don’t have the programming skills or time to set something like this up, but it would be great if someone out there did.
Until what I’ve just described happens, Josh, I, and several others have agreed on #StuMin, which keeps in line with #kidmin. Spread the word in tweets worldwide! Copy and paste the tweet below! You’ll be able to track the use of this Twitter hashtag here or here.
RT @StudentMinistry: The people have spoken. Use #StuMin in your tweets about student ministry! Please RT! http://cli.gs/NvZa1P
Online Youth Ministry for Beginners
Dec 12, 2008 LifeWay
After speaking at the National Youth Worker’s Conference that LifeWay holds annually, I realized I was making some assumptions about youth workers that were inaccurate. They were that A) youth workers know the importance of using the internet in ministry, and B) they know how to do this. On both points – I confess – I was wrong. This led to my article on LifeWay.com, “Online Youth Ministry 101″. Below is an excerpt.
Never forget that your content is up against literally everything else on the internet. What does this mean for you? You must update your accounts frequently. Set aside a time (or two or three) each week to upload to videos and pictures. If you’re using social networks, update your status a few times a day so people will know that you are active.
