Leading your team through Social Media

Carlos Whittaker and Rick Kirkpatrick is leading a workshop/ seminar on leading your team through social media at the Saddleback Worship Conference, and I'm sitting in the front row with Cynthia Ware and Tony Steward. I'm going to try live-blogging this, but the bandwidth on the free campus wifi is all congested, so the connection is very very spotty. [update] I'll have to post a summary retroactively.

[update] Wow, what an incredible workshop! Carlos is magical in how he describes the many different ways he uses social media and web apps to communicate effectively and connect with his team (13 direct reports, I think), his church community, and his online community. Neither a summary nor live-blogging would do it justice. I'll mention a couple of brief hot tips: (1) using twitter and blogs to "cheat relational time", or to say it another way, to add value to existing relationships. These 2 tools help you to get an inside look and/or another perspective at what people are thinking and doing and going through without having to be in person; (2) YouVersion.com changed Carlos spiritual life -- he reads the Bible more and engages it more with others thru this online Bible; (3) use Technorati Ping to raise your Technorati ranking and your Google Rank too, by pinging Technorati with blogs that link to your blog.

These 2 video clips are from the "part 1 of 2" social media workshop with Carlos and Rick. Video courtesy of Tony Steward.

-- DJ Chuang, Director @ Leadership Network

Comments

[Rich Kirkpatrick]

DJ...was great to meet you and here about what you guys are doing. God bless!

[Melissa]

I agree with Rich and Carlos about how to be careful when blogging. Blogging is a look into someone's thoughts and I think it is great that more an dmore churches are recognizing this and utilizing aspects of web 2.0.

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[Tony Steward]

This was a very good conversation put on my Rich and Carlos, well done guys!