[FREE] Facebook Timeline Photos: User Submitted Christian Quotes

We love making free resources for you. Our Facebook Timeline cover photos that we made for you two months ago were amazingly accepted by you guys, so we wanted to make 10 more for you. Two weeks ago we asked you to give us your favorite Bible verses and Christian quotes. You guys came through, so we hope that you guys enjoy these freebies!

These are free for you to use for your own Facebook page, but all rights belong to us. Do not redistribute any of these without authorized, written consent.

Let us know in the comments which ones are your favorites and if you have any suggestions on other verses you would like to see used.

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[FREE] Facebook Timeline Photos: User Submitted Scripture

We love making free resources for you. Our Facebook Timeline cover photos that we made for you two months ago were amazingly accepted by you guys, so we wanted to make 10 more for you. Two weeks ago we asked you to give us your favorite Bible verses and Christian quotes. You guys came through, so we hope that you guys enjoy these freebies!

These are free for you to use for your own Facebook page, but all rights belong to us. Do not redistribute any of these without authorized, written consent.

Let us know in the comments which ones are your favorites and if you have any suggestions on other verses you would like to see used.

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2012 Social Media Strategy: May Review

The last four months have been a great experiment for us on putting together a social media and blogging strategy. We set out with realistic goals that were (mostly) measurable and found out what worked and did not work. Now that we are one-fourth of the way through the year, it is time for us to take the lessons learned, reevaluate these goals, and maybe make some significant changes to our social media strategy. Below you will see only our May reviews of the social media strategy.

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5 Facebook Timeline Tips for Ministries: Tutorial

This week, we have been discussing some of the new features with the timeline redesign for Facebook Pages and how that can impact ministries. We have had examples of great uses of these features and what practically should be looked at for your page.

What we have not done is shown you how to do several of these things and we recognize that the Internet is a busy, tangled, and confusing mess that makes it hard to find how to do most of these things. Below we have a quick video tutorial on how to do some of these things.

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5 Facebook Timeline Tips for Ministries: Images

One of the biggest and greatest parts of the new timeline feature for ministries is the upgrade for images. We are officially a visual society, from entertainment with television or movie theaters to saving memories through Pinterest and scrapbooking. The move to a better visual integration was the next necessary step.

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5 Facebook Timeline Tips for Ministries: Custom Pages

Maybe the greatest part of Facebook for many people is the use of custom pages. We have the ability to format the HTML however we want and create a great display for our viewers to present whatever we want to post. Want to pull up the five latest blog posts or Twitter updates on your Facebook’s custom page? Done. Want to have YouTube videos to show off your ministry? Easy. While you cannot run server side programming code, the versatility of HTML really makes it possible to do whatever you want.

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5 Facebook Timeline Tips for Ministries: Tabs

One of the best additions to Facebook Pages in the last couple of years are the Facebook Page tabs. This section allows you to have a simple navigation for your page that can allow a person to go to your page’s informational section, photos, or any number of custom applications that you put together yourself. The hope Facebook had with tabs is to make a near website-replacement solely on Facebook.

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5 Facebook Timeline Tips for Ministries: Branding

This week we will be talking about the newest Facebook Page design and how ministries from many different backgrounds can utilize these new features. The best part about this is that we will be using real-life examples of Facebook pages currently live so that you can get inspiration for your own page.

Before we go too far into this, let me first state that this is not a “Best Practices for Your Facebook Page” or a comprehensive tutorial to setting one up. That could be a whole month’s setup if we wanted to go that route. We assume you have the capacity to set one up or know someone who could do it for you. At the same time, we will not be addressing the Facebook strategy ideas of what to post or how many times is appropriate, that is for another time.

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Social Media Demographics Infographic

We love how to use social media and are constantly looking for the best and most effective ways to leverage it for ministry, business, and personal use. One of the questions that we have to ask ourselves before we begin to invest too much time into these networks is if it is worth it? Do we have the time, knowledge, and tools to be able to use it? After that, we need to know who is using it to see if it is a viable tool to invest in. The infographic below is a perfect summation of several of the most popular social media networks and who is using them.

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