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Ink cartridges sure are pricey!  I read that ink costs $10,000 per gallon!  Wow! When I look at it that way, it means I may want to start re-thinking what I’m doing.

And let’s face it, eMinistry does cost money when you look at the cost of hardware, software, internet service, printers, and ink.

Cartridges

I prefer brand name cartridges, but you can save a lot with off-brands and refilling your cartridges.   You’ll just need to determine if the quality of the printing is affected  by using a generic.  If so, is this change in quality important for the kind of printing you do?

By the way, don’t believe that “low ink” warning.  I use an economical setting for most of my unimportant print jobs, so I’m printing for maybe three times longer than my indicator says I should.  I wait until the ink actually is used up.  Some suggest shaking a cartridge when the printouts are fading (I’d do this with a plastic bag around the cartridge). Re-insert the cartridge and see if it makes your cartridge last a littl...

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Facebook provides you access to a set of analytics information for all of your Facebook pages and applications. This info, Facebook Insights, can be a really great tool for quickly understanding who is engaging with your ministry’s fan page, and how they’re engaging with your page.
Here’s a quick tip on how to use Insights to tailor your content for your target audience.

First, access your Insights information by going to facebook.com/insights while you’re logged into Facebook. Each set of insights is divided into two sections: Users and Interactions.

 
 
 
On the Users page, look for the daily “likes” and “unlikes” your page has gotten in the last month. These numbers will tell you how many new fans you’ve gained or lost on a particular day. Take note of any spikes, up or down, and which day they occur on.

 
 
 
Now if you go to your interactions page, you can match the date of the spikes with the stories you’ve posted using the list of most recent posts.

 
 
 
This can help you s...

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Videos, photos, and notes are a great way for any Christian ministry, church, or movement to further engage, connect, and start conversations with people on Facebook. For example, you could share photos and videos from a recent community outreach, and invite people to comment and tag people they know in the photos. By doing so, not only are you connecting with people already involved in your ministry, but you’re also giving your ministry a chance to appear in their newsfeeds so that their friends can possibly connect with you.

 
 
Check out these video tutorials from LifeChurch.tv to learn how to make use of videos, photos, and notes in Facebook.

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Edit: Since making this screen cast, Facebook has changed the way their Groups product works. The biggest change is that you can no longer send a direct message to a group. All of the principles for deciding when to use a group versus a page still apply though.
 
 
Between pages, groups, and personal profiles, there are a lot of ways for a Christian ministry to promote community and engagement on Facebook. Understanding the nuances between the three can be a little tricky though. Here’s a screen cast to help you get started.
 
 

Ideally, to maximize your online presence, you and your ministry should use all three. Here’s how.

Personal Profile:
  • personal connections on a one-to-one level.
Pages (Previously known as Fan Pages):
A many-to-many engagement level. Mass public communication. This is where you would engage and communicate with EVERYONE in a movement or campus. This also includes people who are casually involved, or are just curious and want to explore your ministry first.

Other advantage...

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An online home for your Christian ministry can help you reach out to people that you may not have ordinarily met, facilitate deeper conversations, build community, and increase the level of engagement and involvement among the people already involved with your ministry. But with so many options out there on the world wide web, knowing where to start can be a little daunting. It can also be overwhelming thinking that you need to a create community on every social media platform that exists (like Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, or a blog), especially when it seems like there’s a new social media darling cropping up every six months.

This screencast will give you a framework to help you think through where you should start, in terms of social media and the online world, and how you should prioritize your time so that your online presence can be as focused as possible.

In most cases, a custom blog or website will make the most sense for an online home base because of the level of consistency, customization, and...

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