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Facebook for your Parish

Creating and maintaining a Facebook page in 5 minutes

or less!

What are you afraid of?

Where to start…• Go to www.facebook.com• Scroll to the bottom of the page and click ‘create

page’• Choose ‘Company, Organization, or Institution’• Choose ‘Church/Religious Organization’ and type in

your church’s name• Log-in or create a new Facebook account using your

e-mail or mobile number• Input basic information about your parish

(ex: Mission statement, Mass times, Location, Contact information, and profile picture)

• Now you’re ready to write your first post!

Wondering what to post?

• Upcoming events• Daily Scripture reflections

– My recommendations:• www.americancatholic.org• www.mycatholic.org• www.guslloyd.com• www.takefiveforfaith.com• www.catholic-prayer-life.com• www.bustedhalo.com• www.usccb.org

• Shout-outs

If you stop here you will still have a fantastic page!

But there’s more…

Creating an event to increase outreach

• Invite people who ‘like’ your page to an event and they will be able to invite their friends!

Scheduling posts

• Scheduling posts when you will be out of the office/unavailable!

• Allows you to repost important events without setting

reminders for yourself.

• Freedom! QuickTime™ and a decompressor

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Why have a Facebook page?

• A recent study by www.mylife.com of adults 18 and older revealed 56% of social media users are afraid of missing out on events, news, and important status updates if they are away from it for too long. – 42% have accounts on multiple networks– 61% for those between 18-34

FOMO: Fear of Missing Out

Social Media Myths…5. My ministry needs to be on EVERY network.

4. Set and forget.

3. If they’re not talking to me, I don’t need to know.

2. Social media is only for broadcasting MY message.

•AND…

Information from: www.mashable.com

1. Maintaining a page takes too long…YOU CAN DO IT!

If you have between 5-10 minutes a day, you canCreate and maintain a Facebook page for your ministry.

PROMOTE! PROMOTE! PROMOTE!

Want to learn more???

I will be in the demo room for the rest of the day if you’d like to begin the

set-up process of your page!