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Leadership Social Media

A 7 Day Social Media Experiment For Pastors

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September 24, 2017

What could happen if you spent a few minutes a day creating conversations and connections through social media?
Here’s a play-by-play guide.
If there was an opportunity to expand your ministry reach and connect with your church and community where they are during the week, would you take it?

There’s an opportunity…


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Communications General Social Media

Redefining Excellence

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October 9, 2014

For my first five years working in creative ministry, I was obsessed with the idea and the destination of “excellence.” I always felt excellence was a value often forgotten or overlooked in the church world, and I tried to make it my mantra as a young creative to fix…


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Social Media

Social Media Strategy In A Picture

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February 22, 2014

I had the awesome opportunity to speak at the SoCon14 Conference here close to my home in Kennessaw, GA today and speak on the topic of social media strategy. The talk was about putting a strategy in place to effectively share your story and connect with your audience in…


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Social Media

A 5 Day Experiment on the Power of Social Media

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February 11, 2014

A few weeks ago at West Ridge Church, we conducted a social media experiment. I’m a big believer in the power of social media, but to be honest, the results shocked me.

On Tuesday, January 7th during our Lead Team meeting, we were talking about Terence Lester, one of our church…


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Social Media

5 Reasons Why I Say No To Creating Multiple Facebook Pages

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June 10, 2013

If you’re involved in church communications, I can almost guarantee within the last month that one of these things has happened to you:

Someone asked if they can create their own Facebook page for a ministry
Someone didn’t even ask and you found out they created a Facebook page for their…


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Facebook Social Media Twitter Volunteers

How To Build A Volunteer Social Media Dream Team

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March 5, 2013

One of the most frequent questions I get about social media for churches is how to run a volunteer based social media team. Reality is, for most churches, social media is too big of a job for one person to handle. So how do we fix that? Through building…


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Social Media Volunteers

Social Media Strategy In 3 Words

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February 11, 2013

It’s easy to start a social media presence these days without ever defining what the purpose and strategy is behind it.

At West Ridge Church, social media is at the core of our communications strategy. Our Facebook Page has grown 70% over the last 15 months and has a weekly…

PHIL BOWDLE
Atlanta, GA

Hi my name is Phil. I'm the Creative Arts Pastor at West Ridge Church in NW Atlanta. This blog exists to provide practical resources that can transform how you communicate and create for your church.