Could your church benefit from a Social Media virtual assistant?
We know two things for sure.
1) Social Media is a powerful tool to get the message out about your ministry and how it can benefit indivuals and families.
2) Church staff and volunteers are already pressed for available time to squeeze in another activity or project.
Can your church or religious organization benefit from a Social Media virtual assistant? I personally think it is a wonderful idea.
Kim Beasley has written a wonderful article on how a social media virtual assistant can benefits businesses, and it got me to thinking about how this type of service could be effectively used by non-profits, like churches, retreat centers, youth camps, and other religious organizations.
In many instances great ideas are not implemented due to time limitations. Putting a virtual assistant, (VA) in place would remedy that potential objection.
Of course I am in favor of any implementation process that will get churches to leverage Internet marketing. Give it some thought, and I would interested to hear what you think about this idea.
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I think this is a very nice idea. I really do not see any problem in doing this and integrating it in Christian websites.
In fact, we can even use social networking sites like facebook and myspace for church purposes. I believe and by experience, this is one of the things that we can do for younger generations since they are more connected through these social networking sites with each other.
Right now, I am even running a group in facebook called “The Disciplers” and some of the members were already emailing me telling me that they are blessed to be a member of it since they are receiving many insights about God and discipleship.
http://thedisciplers.com
This is a good idea that could be incorporated to church marketing. As a matter it is a part of it if you consider the tasks that need to be done to be known online. One thing that you have to consider though is the way you screen your VA to know what level of trust you could work on. If all these would work together ok, then you are in effect creating a programmable duplicate of yourself.
John – I think you have hit the essence of a virtual assistant … the ability to duplicate oneself in an area so that you can engage in higher value activity. Since the time is many times the limiting factor, we are looking for the time that a virtual assistant can create for us.