Recently I ran across this quote on the web about Twitter: We think we can reach every person on the planet.” –Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, as quoted by The Wall Street Journal’s Digits blog Imagine that – a social media company has the desire to reach every person on the planet. Twitter wants to get their message out to every nation, tribe,...

Twitter is slowly starting to catch on. With 100 million active users people are beginning to force their way through the learning curve and use it consistently as a communication tool. But, where does that leave churches? If a church has a Twitter account how should it be used to communicate with those inside and outside the church? Is it a tool the church can use?...

The Southern Baptist Convention  is underway. The Social Media changes that have come this year are very evident. Last year when I led TalkSBC we were ground breaking in the use of video and Social Media to cover the convention. We tweeted, posted, blogged, Youtubed, and Ustreamed when no one else was. This year  – that has all changed. BP has released...

If you stayed awake and are involved in Social Media you saw the event unfold right before your eyes. When the networks broke into regular programming a few minutes before 11 PM (East Coast) the Social Media landscape began to light up with the news. As a matter of fact, Twitter says it set an all time record for TPS (Tweets per second). According to Tech Crunch, The...

  Twitter is not something just for the techies or the kids anymore. Maybe when it got started it was too complicated to figure out – not anymore. Maybe you think it is just for celebrities – no way.  Consider these statistics: In the past year alone, the average number of tweets per day has nearly tripled from 50 million to 140 million. Tweets...