http://www.churchvolunteercentral.com/cvdaily/are-you-facebook-friends/
By: Sue Brage
Are you friends with at least
one of your volunteers on Facebook? Do you use email—or texting—to communicate with your volunteers?
Have you—or any of your volunteers—attended an online seminar or conference?
These simple questions serve to illustrate how the volunteer
landscape is changing, and how important it is for those leading volunteers to
change and grow with it. What has worked in the past may not bring the same
results today. According to Thomas and Jonathon McKee in The
New Breed, we must “adapt to the changing world of
volunteer management.”
Clergy must navigate traditional
boundaries in new social media world
Developing policies is a challenge, observers say
[Episcopal News Service] When the Episcopal
Church's Province III Youth Ministry Network earlier this month issued a set of
guidelines for interacting with young people through social media,
it was on the cutting edge of a growing effort to help guide ministers as they
walk through the digital landscape.
Two or three years ago when Elizabeth Drescher was researching her book "Tweet if You ♥ Jesus," she said, the "big conversation was about why do we need to do this at all -- why does it matter?"
Two or three years ago when Elizabeth Drescher was researching her book "Tweet if You ♥ Jesus," she said, the "big conversation was about why do we need to do this at all -- why does it matter?"
