Here’s a screencast that shows you how to integrate blog posts from your campus website with your Facebook Fan page so that you can maximize your visibility with your students.

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With so many things fighting for the attention of the average college and high school student, it can be a struggle getting students to show up for anything, including class. The social media landscape, however, can make it a lot easier for your ministry to cut through the noise by greatly increasing the number of people you reach, and making it easier to promote and organize an event.

Here’s a tutorial from Mashable.com about how to organize an event with Facebook. Facebook Events Guide

Social media, and Facebook specifically, give your ministry the opportunity to:

• Go Viral With Every Event and Outreach

People you invite through Facebook can invite their network of friends. Your ministry’s event also shows up in their news feeds, all of which serves to increase the visibility of your ministry. Not only is your ministry gaining visibility to a much larger audience this way, but each Facebook invite is much more effective than a random flier because it’s a personal invite from a friend.

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USTREAM is a great tool to use for virtual meetings, allowing you to broadcast your meeting, and chat live with your viewers. Here’s a screencast that shows you how to login & set up video settings in USTREAM. (Addendum: At one point I mention “flash” based cameras, when I meant to say “firewire” based cameras.)

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Livestream can be a great tool to use for virtual meetings, allowing you to broadcast your meeting, and chat live with your viewers. Here’s a screencast that shows you how to login & adjust your initial audio & video settings of livestream.

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There is a known bug with WordPress blogs hosted on Bluehost that will crash your site and prevent you from logging into your WordPress dashboard. The bug occurs if you change the permalink settings on your site. This tutorial will show you what triggers the bug, and how to fix it.

If you’re not comfortable using an FTP client and plain text editor, which you’ll need to get your site working again, don’t trigger the bug without some help first.

1. Login to your WordPress dashboard.

1. Expand the Settings menu and select Permalinks
   

1. Select either the Day and Name or Month and Name option, and then select the Save Changes button
   

1. From this point forward, if you try to load any part of your blog, you will receive a 404 error. You will receive this error until you fix the htaccess file.

1. Download the .htaccess file that is generated after saving the permalink options from the previous step. The .htaccess...

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