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- BCA 2010: Chicago
Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnifice...
Tuesday, April 6 at 12:00pm
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After you finish tidying up emails from last year and jumpstart your 2010 projects, it's time to pull your best work from 2009 for the BCA Awards Competition - and FAST! Deadline for entries to be postmarked is January 25. Pay for your entries online: http://www.baptistcommunicators.org/awar
Also remember, your membe...rship dues for 2009 must be paid by Dec. 31, 2009, to participate. To renew your membership now, go to: http://www.baptistcommunicators.org/memb
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Baptist Communicators Association Want to come to the 2010 Baptist Communicators Association annual meeting in Chicago but concerned about hotel cost? We have a solution for you: the BCA Roommate Finder! Send an email to bhowerton@thealabamabaptist.org about your interest. Please include name, gender, contact info., dates of arrival/ departure, number ...of roommates desired (1-3) and any special requests or needs. Requests must be received by Feb. 1.
Baptist Communicators Association The great blessing of social media is that it allows you to listen and create conversation. Check out these tips from Mashable on how to host a Twitter chat.
mashable.com
During Twitter chats, people discuss specific topics over Twitter, using a #hashtag to keep track of the conversation. Here's how you can start your own.
Baptist Communicators Association Another tool to recommend: SocialOomph. Allows you to schedule tweets. @kentuckybaptist is using it to post daily prayer requests for leadership. Will likely deploy it for event reminders, deadline reminders, etc.
www.socialoomph.com
"I am -super- happy with SocialOomph. It's made my Tweeting experience so much more enjoyable and easy to manage. And the customer service is amazing." Debbie Ohi wrote.
Baptist Communicators Association This afternoon a few of the officers will be chatting about workshop ideas for BCA 2010 in Chicago. Got a hot topic you want to discuss with fellow BCAers? A new skill you want to learn? An passion you want to share? Post your thoughts here or email brenda.smith@kybaptist.org and we'll get your ideas in the mix!
Baptist Communicators Association Check out the discussion board - new topic just posted by fellow member on 'Reporting spontaneous revivals'.
Baptist Communicators Association Another great tool: SocialMention. What are people saying about your organization? What are people saying about topics of interest to you? SocialMention scours blogs, twitter and more and delivers the results to you.
www.socialmention.com
Social Mention is a social media search engine that searches user-generated content such as blogs, comments, bookmarks, events, news, videos, and microblogging services.
Baptist Communicators Association OK - here are your poll results on which medium works best for BCA members and fans to receive news and stay in touch with colleagues.
Baptist Communicators Association Another note: looks a few state conventions made use of Twitterfountain at annual meetings this year. Also a big hit at the SBC annual meeting last June. A fun way to encourage conversation, interaction. Check it out here:
www.twitterfountain.nl
Have you ever wanted to see what was happening at that one event you could not go to? Did the plain text-backchannels somehow left you feeling disappointed?
Baptist Communicators Association This looks like fun! Check out Whrrl, a way for groups to share stories, pics and more related to special events.
whrrl.com
Capture moments using photos, location, and updates. Share live via iPhone, Facebook, and Twitter. See friends' stories on a map and never miss out again.
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Need a creative break from designing a church logo? Check out this post on the "What NOT to do's" for a good laugh and score your own design.
http://stuffchristianslike.net/2008/10/4
#423. Creating the holiest church logo possible. A how to guide. « Stuff Christians Like – Jon Acuff
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Latest Twitter: Clarification, the North Point event I'm speaking at is for single guys & girls. Signup http://tinyurl.com/yzcpwq2 # 30 mins ago
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According to churchmarketingsucks.com they found nearly half the audience of a web site doesn't get their content on the web site. Up next was the 24% who turn to RSS. After that comes social media with 14% enjoying @cmsucks on Twitter and 8% partaking on Facebook.
Take our poll:
Which medium do you think best works fo...r you for your BCA news and relationships?
1. www.baptistcommunicators.org/
2. RSS reader: feed://www.baptistcommunicators.org/rss/
3. Twitter @BaptistComm
4. Right here on our Facebook fan page (we have a member page too)
We'll tally the total votes on Nov. 16.
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Blackberry or iPhone? Which device do you think is best for journalists? Let's take our own poll here. And check out this article too: http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31&
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Read Bill Garrett's blog post I have some Multimedia software news to share more people. in the Online & Multimedia blog.
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Baptist Communicators Association discussed Reporting spontaneous revivals on the Baptist Communicators Association discussion board.
Baptist Communicators Association discussed Reporting spontaneous revivals on the Baptist Communicators Association discussion board.
