Is your church on Facebook?

[lauriepop]

Are any of you the admins for your church's facebook page? As we begin our page, we want to be sure we have all the possible controls in place to avoid inappropriate posts/content. Any help with the following questions is greatly appreciated

Can any admin remove a post, picture, link, etc. that a "fan" has posted?
Can any admin post on behalf of the church as an entity (not a personal post)
If you are an admin, how do you keep this separate from your personal account?

May have some more questions...feel free to pass on any other advise you may have!

Laurie

[medianate]

Well, I agree with part and disagree with others.

We got a Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube & Flickr account just as an experiment, and if it fails then we would simple delete the account.
But we have noticed that it is helping get younger people interested in coming to our church as well as being involved. So, I thoughts are if you want more teens in your church than social networks are the way to go, but if you want more older people in your church than I would look into newspaper ad's or inserts.

[riafekim]

I think I am ready I am going to bring the whole social networking issue up at our next board meeting. I think it is time to push our whole online presence up a notch. Just need to find somebody to do it. Check this video out on social networking stats...

CMN Player - YouTube - Social Media Revolution

[lauriepop]

We had a church council meeting (our govening board) last Sunday. The average age of those in attendance was maybe 50. We were asking for permission to set up our facebook page and asked those present to raise their hands if they were on facebook. There were about 40 people at this meeting and well over 75% of them are on facebook. I also remember reading somewhere that the fastest growing age group on facebook is 50+...so its not just for teenagers and college kids anymore...Mom, Dad and Grandma have invaded facebook....I think its great!

[tedanderson]

...so its not just for teenagers and college kids anymore...

Well I always thought that FB was established as the more mature alternative compared to MySpace.

But as much as I am anti-social-networking on the web, I would agree that if you want the teens to get involved, you need to be where they are.

[numba1skuxx]

Yes facebook is very helpfull for fulltime growth outside of your ministry Hope this helps

[Ryno]

We use Facebook as just another venue to communicate with our people. We are a very young and creative church. I was quite surprised that we only got 400 friends when our church runs a little over 1000. So, I'm not sure if it is going to reach as many people as you plan BUT it is a good addition to all the other things you might be using (Twitter, YouTube, eNews, etc.).