I am so glad I work for The Rocket Company! Our organization has a deep passion to help churches succeed. Therefore, they have dispatched me to the Orange Conference in Atlanta, Ga to gather leadership lessons and insights to pass on to you.
In this afternoon’s main session, popular blogger and author Jon Acuff provided some great insights on how pastors and Christian leaders should leverage social media.
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- It’s easy to go viral. It’s difficult to go vital.
- The best way to make sure something doesn’t viral is to try to make something go viral.
- Social media has leveled the playing field.
- Now is a great time to be a leader.
- There are encore careers. There are 55 yr olds who are starting their career again.
- Anyone can play. The internet can level the playing field.
- The internet is still swallowing up industries.
- The internet is still giving a lot of people a lot of opportunities.
- Hope is boss. Hope is the new currency for this generation.
- If we get the principles right, the technology is just a means.
- Honesty is the most important thing in social media.
- The people you are trying to reach have been exposed to more talent than anyone in history.
- There is not a person in this room who would say we have gotten more honest in the last 20 years.
- Getting caught doesn’t make you honest. It makes you exposed.
- The next generation grew up around Marketing and they can spot it.
- You can only control the starting line. You have no control over the finish line.
- As leaders, it’s our job to go first.
- When you go first, you give everyone else the gift of going second.
- If you won’t admit weakness, they won’t trust anything else you say.
- What fear fears is community.
- With social media, you have the tools to create a space where someone can say, “Me too.”
- Don’t engage with haters.
- Hate only gets loud when you’re doing something that matters. No one throws rocks at someone laying down.
- Leaders don’t know how to take a compliment or an insult.
- Critics Math – 1 insult + 1000 compliments = 1 insult
- We’re here to herd sheep, not take care of goats.
- Churches spend too much time trying to get people who don’ t like them to like them rather than getting people to love Jesus.
- We are the first generation in the history of mankind who has to have a digital footprint conversation with their children.
- It’s not about keeping up with technology. It’s about maintaining truth.
- Random parents don’t show up for sleepovers. That is what we need to do with Facebook.
- Go to where your crowd already is. It is just a question of if you will be part of the conversation.
- If you have a big event coming up in a month, you need to designate a Twitter intern. Someone at your church is already an expert on social media.
- When a new platform gets out, sprint there and get a spot. But don’t spend a lot of time there if it doesn’t take off.
- I go to Vine a lot.
- People who visit your site don’t care about your flash site. They care what times your service is.
- The human brain hates new ideas. It is very active and the brain must retrain itself to accept new ideas.
- If you lose someone at the beginning of an interaction, they don’t come back to the middle.
- Christians confess safe sins.
- You should survey your church to see what platform they’re on.
- Shock closes ears. Surprise opens hearts.
- Churches should put your Hashtag feed on your site.
- Do a promo vs. content ratio.
- Schedule your tweets. Life is fun.
- My wife has never said, “Enough about me. What about Twitter.”
- “If I say Yes to everyone who wants to have coffee, I would never be the guy everyone wants to have coffee with.” – Andy Stanley
- Social media will empty pastors out if you’re not careful.
- The first lie is the phone will give you more free time.
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