Tag: social media
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Because the Customer Is NOT Always Right!
BusinessWeek: Because the Customer Is NOT Always Right! Restaurant-goers can Yelp (YELP) about high prices and bad service; homeowners can carp about shoddy contractors on Angie’s List (ANGI); ripped-off customers can tattle to the Better Business Bureau. Now small business owners have a place to share opinions of their own: BadConsumers.com. The site’s tagline: “Because…
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Why shopping will never be the same
USA Today: Why shopping will never be the same … The convergence of smartphone technology, social-media data and futuristic technology such as 3-D printers is changing the face of retail in a way that experts across the industry say will upend the bricks-and-mortar model in a matter of a few years. "The next five years…
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Faith and Facebook: UM churches finding their way with social media
UM Portal: Faith and Facebook: UM churches finding their way with social media … So how can churches encourage congregants to interact with their church’s Facebook page? Here are some ways churches have engaged people through Facebook: • Custer Road UMC in Plano, Texas, hosted a competition for its college students who attend universities across…
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Bruce Reyes-Chow: We’re Starting a New Presbyterian Church
bruce reyes-chow: We’re Starting a New Presbyterian Church … For a while now I have had an inkling that the “social media amplifies the local church” paradigm could be flipped upside-down resulting in a powerful way to be church. If this shift were to be taken seriously, some interesting questions are raised: What if a church decided that the…
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Tom Arthur: Theology of the cloud
Call & Response Blog: Tom Arthur: Theology of the cloud In a recent article on Faith & Leadership, Verity Jones points out how many Christian leaders talk about how to use social media, but few if any offer a theology of it. Well, I’ll give it a try. Here’s a brief theological sketch for social…
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Why Pinterest Is So Addictive
Fast Company: Why Pinterest Is So Addictive I would have written this article sooner, but I was busy on Pinterest. If you are still among the uninitiated, the social platform for collecting, sharing, and commenting on of photos of personal passions is uniquely engaging, absorbing, and addictive. The human instinct to collect things–be it baseball…
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Know Your Internet: What Is Pinterest and Why Should I Care?
The Atlantic: Know Your Internet: What Is Pinterest and Why Should I Care? On the cold, crowded beach that is the Internet, another monster wave has been spotted on the horizon. This wave is called Pinterest and it looks like it could be — or already is — the Next Big Thing in social media.…
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Do the Amish use Facebook?
Modeled Behavior: Do the Amish use Facebook? The relationship between the Amish and technology is not so absolutist as most probably imagine. A recent article on the use of Facebook among Amish teens illustrates the complex, varied, and surprising ways in which the so-called Plain People interact with technology: There are no statistics to show…
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About that MLK quote
Christian Century: About that MLK quote … The problem is that the first sentence of this quote didn't come from King. It's by a woman named Jessica Dovey, who posted it Monday along with the other three sentences, which she (correctly) attributed to King. A prominent Twitter user misread the post before tweeting it, at…
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Not Many of You Should Presume to Be Bloggers
Christianity Today: Not Many of You Should Presume to Be Bloggers … James warned us, "Not many of you should presume to be teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly" (James 3:1, NIV1984). James goes on to graphically portray the incredible power that our tongues have both…