We hope to make this the GFM staff "home" for digital communications. So that you don't have to dig up all the different articles on this topic, we are pulling together resources from days gone by and will add the resources to come to this digital communications "home." These are posted most recent first.
2016 GFM National Staff Conference
- Seminar: Talking Past Each Other?: Toward More Effective Online Communication
- In an age of internet outrage, online communication can be full of landmines. Whether the topic is race, the presidential election, church conflict, or economic policy, talking about it online can be tricky. But we can’t opt out of online engagement—the internet is here to stay. How might we communicate ideas online in a way that is both bold and loving? How do we think about giving offense? When should we wade in, and when should we save the conversation for voice-to-voice? In this seminar, The Well hosts an embodied discussion about how to love one another better as we communicate online. Our hope is that this seminar will be enlightening, fruitful, and a safe space to ask questions. We desire to serve staff as they participate in hard conversations and model healthy online engagement. -Anna Gissing & team
- Seminar: Social Media 101: Developing a Digital Ministry Strategy
- Tom Grosh IV will begin the seminar by offering the basics of developing a digital ministry strategy. Kirsten Wagenius and Bob Trube will share how to engage people and curate material through social media. Matt Sally will propose MailChimp as a tool for focused communications to a number of audiences. After the short presentations, the team will take questions from participants. Note: PDF of Tom's Power Point, which is an adaption of the 2015 Social Media Workshop Power Point.
- Tour of the "new" GFM Website!
- You may know, we had a major website overhaul in 2014. Well, we got to do a minor update in 2015 to bring us into a new version of our website management system. Check out the new website with a Power Point tour! We recommend following along online and then exploring the many resources and sub-ministry pages.
- Workshop: Geek Squad: One-on-One Coaching in Social Media
- Want some personal coaching about the digital platform of your choice? Tom Grosh & team will help you explore how to take the next step in your digital communications, whether you’re just starting, branching out to a new p latform, or refining your current communications strategy. You’ll have the opportunity to choose coaching for these platforms: Facebook, Twitter, Mailchimp, Blogging (for your own blog), Blogging (for a blog maintained by another person or part of InterVarsity). Learn more. Note: Tom will refer to material from the Social Media 101: Developing a Digital Ministry Strategy Seminar (PDF).
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Access the audio recording and Power Point presentation from the Associate Director of Communications and Director of New Media for InterVarsity/USA, Adam Jeske. You might also enjoy, "What Would Jesus Post on Social Media?", an article from May Yuan and Vivian Chen who took copious notes and blogged for the Emerging Scholars blog about Adam's session.
Ministry Partner Development Website
The MPD website hosts many resources about communication. Specific to the task at hand, you may like to review all of the articles on Social Media. You will find best practices, success stories, and advice on how to get started, such as Adam Jeske's "How to Use Social Media in Fundraising."
2015 GFM National Staff Conference
The Social Media Workshop Power Point, put together by Tom Grosh, presents statistics regarding the use of social media and the case for engaging students and faculty online via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and more.
New to the Social Media scene? Check out Myra Koontz's Introduction to Social Media to learn more about the most used platforms at that time. Understand some key terms you might hear like "tweet" and "hashtag." This was covered in the Social Media Workshop as well.
Straight to you from the 2015 Meeting Book, the Top Ten Ways to Use the GFM Websites gives you a few ideas to get the ball rolling as you aim to incorporate InterVarsity's Graduate and Faculty Ministry websites into your digital communications strategy.
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