SocialMedia.Church Podcast Archives

Stephen Morrissey blogs and podcasts at ChurchWebStrategies.org, using his time and skills as a web professional to help churches get strategic about their web and social media presence. Listen to this episode to hear the back story for why he started blogging and podcasting, and his heart for helping churches using his experiences in strategy and business … Continue reading Stephen Morrissey of Church Web Strategies: Episode 103

Let’s give K.C. Procter a call on this episode of Social Media Church and hear how he does all that he does- a Dad, an Online Campus Pastor (at New Life Church in Renton WA), a podcaster (Dad Life Rules), and co-founder of publishing power-house ChurchMag Press. Listen to how their church started in social … Continue reading The Multi-Talented K.C. Procter: Episode 102

Dave Travis is the Chief Encouragement Officer (CEO) of Leadership Network, a ministry organization that fosters innovation movements that activate THE CHURCH to greater impact for the Glory of God’s name. Dave has a unique vantage point of seeing how innovative churches are incorporating technology and social media in their ministry strategies, and that’s what … Continue reading Dave Travis of Leadership Network: Episode 101

Kenny Jahng, the Pastor of Media and Innovation at Liquid Church (Morristown, NJ), celebrates Episode 100 with Social Media Church podcast! Of course we have to have conversations about social media, how email is the killer app (according to Kenny Jahng), how traditional media and even the postal service are all useful channels of communications in … Continue reading Kenny Jahng of Liquid Church: Episode 100

Natalie Aho serves churches and ministries as an interactive communication specialist, working in the areas of communication and social media for ministries like Associated Baptist Press/Herald and Alabama Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, and Center for Healthy Churches. Natalie connects the Social Media Church for a conversation about how communication has rapidly changed and developed with social media, how she … Continue reading Natalie Aho of DigitalClergy.com: Episode 99

Listen in on a face-to-face conversation with Jay Kranda, Online Campus Pastor of Saddleback Church, and host DJ Chuang on this episode of Social Media Church. Jay shares about the lessons learned in pastoring an Online Campus, running 167 online worship services every week (that’s almost one every hour on the hour), how they make … Continue reading Jay Kranda of Saddleback Church: Episode 98

Jon Petersen is the Marketing Manager at BibleGateway.com, the most popular Bible website on the Internet. Jon talks about the recently redesigned BibleGateway.com, how it continues to grow its audience engagement, and how users are using mobile and social media with BibleGateway.com. Show Notes Connect with Bible Gateway on Twitter @biblegateway and @biblegatewayapp on Facebook … Continue reading Jon Petersen of BibleGateway.com: Episode 97

Dustin Stout has a background in storytelling and the performing arts as an actor, now working to help people tell compelling stories online, through blogging, branding & web design, and social media consulting. Keywords: Social. Web. Strategy. Design. Dustin shares an insider look at Google+ on this episode of Social Media Church podcast. Dustin explains … Continue reading Dustin Stout on Google+ : Episode 96

This episode of the Social Media Church podcast has host DJ Chuang talking with listeners about what’s happened in 26 months of podcasting here. He highlights some of the data collected in these 2 reports: Overall Podcast Statistics for SocialMediaChurch.net – June 2012 to August 2014 (courtesy of Blubrry.com + PowerPress plugin for WordPress) Listeners’ Survey Results @ SocialMediaChurch.net ~ May-July 2014 (courtesy … Continue reading Podcast Statistics & Listeners Feedback: Episode 95

Sean Coughlin launched FaithStreet.com to help people discover and explore faith communities, prompted to answer the question “Why is it so hard to find a church?” In addition to its church directory with 14,000+ profiles, FaithStreet is home to OnFaith, 11,000+ thoughtful stories from faith communities, and FaithStreet also provides an online giving solution. Sean shares about how all of that … Continue reading Sean Coughlin of FaithStreet.com: Episode 94

Pastor Greg Laurie is a notable pastor (Harvest Christian Fellowship, Riverside, California) and evangelist with Harvest Crusades that has held large-scale outreaches since 1990. He was interviewed by Brendan Stark (Web Director at Harvest) in a keynote address at the CITRT (Church IT Roundtable) Regional event back in March 2014. Pastor Greg Laurie shared his value as … Continue reading Pastor Greg Laurie on Using Technology: Episode 93

Social Media Church celebrated the launching of OnlineChurchLeaders.com with a livestreamed web event, hosted by Innovation Pastor Nils Smith (@NilsSmith) of Community Bible Church and its OnlineChurch.com, previously on #81 and #2, with special guests: Jason Caston (@jasoncaston) – on SocialMediaChurch.net #86 and #13 Jason Morris (@jasonandmaria) – on SocialMediaChurch.net #67 and #11 Jay Kranda (@JayKranda) … Continue reading Launching OnlineChurchLeaders.com: Episode 92

New domain names ending in .CHURCH are part of the new Internet name space expansion beyond the currently popular .COM, .NET, and .ORG domain names. With an estimated 1,000+ new gTLDs (generic top-level domains) being launched this year and next year, the web addresses and URLs will look very different in 10 years or sooner. … Continue reading Why .CHURCH domain names matter: Episode 91

Matt McKee is CEO of ROAR, a custom mobile app development company, Thought Leader for the reThink Group, and a writer mattmckee.me. Matt’s also served for other a decade in family ministries, so you know he’s got a great heart for ministry. Matt has a conversation with Social Media Church podcast about mobile apps, mobile … Continue reading Matt McKee on mobile apps: Episode 90

Sean Cannell is the campus pastor of The Church OC (a campus of The Church LV in Las Vegas) and author of a new eBook, “YouTube For Churches: How to Make Better Videos, Grow Your Church and Reach More People with YouTube” — Sean talks with Social Media Church before a livestream viewing audience to talk about YouTube, churches, social … Continue reading Sean Cannell of YouTube for Churches: Episode 89