Social Media for Congregations
Saturday, May 8, 2010
10 am - 11:30 am
This free webinar will offer basic information about various forms of social media and best practices of how to use it in our congregations. We'll answer questions about facebook, twitter, uuplanet.tv, and blogs. We'll look at what resources are out there to help you, how to create streams for your website and what policies do you need in place to keep these new media a safe place for our congregations. This workshop will be led by District Administrator Beth Casebolt, who runs all the social media communications for the district.
Information concerning how to connect to the webinar and hear the audio will be emailed to those who register by the May 5, 2010 registration deadline.
Some congregations and individuals have the necessary equipment to be able to host several people at one time to participate in this webinar. To do this you need a speaker phone and be able to connect your computer to a large screen (usually a large television). If your congregation or a member of your committee is able to do this, we recommend that you consider participating as a group. This will allow more people to participate since it will only count as one log-in.
What are the requirements?
- You will need access to a phone that you can use to make a long distance phone call. The call charges are your only cost for the webinar.
- To participate in the webinar you must have one of the following browsers: Firefox 1.5 or higher, Internet Explorer 6 or higher, Safari 2 or higher. You will need Adobe Flash version 10 installed on your computer. We also recommend that you access the webinar through a high speed connection such as DSL, broadband cable or T1. Dial up connections are not usually fast enough to handle the video downloads and tend to skip.
- You can test your computer system to see if it will work for the webinar at http://www.dimdim.com/support/dimdim_resources.html. Click the "Test Your System" link under "Supported Platforms". There is also a link to install Adobe Flash if you need it.
Deadline for registration is Wednesday, May 5, 2010.
If planning to attend as a "group" then only the leader of the group should register.
Please register soon as space is limited.
To register, complete the form below.
- You will receive an confirmation email when you complete the form. Directions for how to access the webinar will be sent out after the registration deadline of May 5.
- If you are attending as part of a group who will only be logging in once, please only have one member of the group register.
- Please note that we have a limit of 25 registrations. If the form below says it is full and not accepting additional registrations, please contact the district office to be put on a waiting list. If enough people are placed on the waiting list we will re-run the webinar.
- If you have difficulties, please contact the OMD Office.
Questions? Contact the registrar at office at ohiomeadville.org.
