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How to Be an Awesome Social Networker

May 26, 2008


Bill Seaver, over at Micro Explosion Media, has created a couple of action-packed posts about how to be a Social Media Marketing ROCKSTAR. Here's a summary:

To be successful with Social Media Marketing, you have to know your goals and your strategy. Having great content is a great strategy.

A good content strategy is to include all of the following types of posts:
+ Entertain - humor, funny videos
+ Inspire - emotional approach
+ Educate - helpful ideas, how and why
+ Inform - news updates, what's hot!
+ Outrage - controversy can make good content.

Check-out 3 Things Vanilla Ice Can Teach You About Social Media Marketing.

And my favorite: Five Categories of Valuable Content.

This is GREAT STUFF! Better than Facebook for Pastors.
Catalyst Vanagon

Whiteboard Wisdom - Perry Noble & Tim Stevens Recap…

May 25, 2008


Tim Steven's Notes from the 2008 Whiteboard Sessions
(Tim Stevens is the Executive Pastor at Granger Community Church in Granger, IN)

  • Tim's Blog highlights a video from Mark Batterson:
    Mark Batterson is the pastor of National Community Church in Washington D.C. and ended with this moving baptism video.

Perry Noble's Notes from the 2008 Whiteboard Sessions
(Perry Noble is the Senior Pastor at NewSpring Church in Anderson, SC)

  • A look back on our Road Trip Interview with Perry Noble:

    Catalyst on Vimeo.
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Blog Update! Videos…

May 24, 2008


The "Catalyst Voices" & "Fun Videos" tabs (located along the top margin) have been updated in chronological order with the newest videos at the top. "Catalyst Voices" features interviews with leaders from ALL walks of life... men and women that we have met on the road and were gracious to give us a few minutes of their time. "Fun Videos" is just that... a source of random, sometimes stupid, sometimes funny videos from your friendly Vanagon Vagabonds. Hope you enjoy your weekend!

Catalyst Vanagon

Driving back to ATL…

May 23, 2008


Today I welcomed the company of our Catalyst Group Leader Kit. That's right, the "Together Triangle" rode shotgun filling in for Mr. Brad "can't ride, gotta fly" Lomenick. Oh, the irony - riding "together" without Brad. Hope you had a great flight buddy...

On the way hope I had a chance to stop by and spend time with a possible future Vanagon Vagabond, Brian Cole. He and his family are in Lynchburg this weekend and invited me to stop by. Brian is a critical part of the Catalyst production team and his wife, Akemi, leads the Catalyst volunteer army. Amazing people, and their kids are awesome. When I showed up at the Cole house I looked down and saw something stuck in the front windshield wiper. Warning, if you love butterflies, beware.

Cole Family & The Vanagon... Butterfly vs. The Vanagon...

It was a great week with Ben Arment and his team at Whiteboard. Thanks to everyone that came by and spent time with us at the Catalyst Booth & The Catalyst Vanagon. Just another quick reminder, there is a ton of great content from the Whiteboard Sessions that can be found at conferencechannel.org - make sure to check it out, it will definitely be worth your time.

LV
on behalf of the Catalyst Road Trip Team

Friday Link Love


Awesome, Amazing graphical goodness: graphic-exchange.com Flip video ultra from Micro Explosion Media: flip. Joshua Blankenship is so serious: soserio.us Keeping Your Mouth Shut from Anne Jackson: FlowerDust.net Conference Channel.org - best channel on the internet: conferencechannel.org Cool Photography: Chase Jarvis.com Simple, cool website with interesting articles (thanks Sally): Jesus Culture.org

Share some of your favorite links below!

Weekly Commentary: Conference Channel.org is the best thing since YouTube. It utilizes UStream.tv to stream bits of conferences live on the internet. So what? Well, there's something about watching live, rather than a YouTube. But also, there's a chat room window where you can chat with other watchers from around the US. PLUS there's live twitter action poppin on the right side, and photo links, and etc. ConferenceChannel.org is not perfect, but the concept is awesome, truly the next step.

My favorite part is the chatting, discussion and networking you can do while watching live content. This concept has strong potential to improve the way we communicate, debate, share ideas, consume content and do conferences. Plus it's more addicting than twitter - I logged-on today even though there's nothing to watch.
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