Digital disciples pdf version

Digital Disciples…

Craig Gilman
Digital Youth Adviser
CEOP Ambassador

Welcome!

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#digitaldisciples

“Social media is online media that starts
conversations, encourages people to
pass it on to others, and finds ways to
“
travel on its own.

Idealware - http://www.idealware.com

Generation Y
1980’s -1995?
18-32 year olds

iGen / Gen Z
1995 – Present
0-17 year olds

Appeal of Technology to GenY & iGen

• Always on
• Anonymity
• Addictive
• Access to the world
• Active not passive medium
• Away from supervision “If you took away my mobile phone
you would take away a part of me”
• Acceptance – identity and status
• Amplifier (gives children a voice)
• The online world IS the child’s world

The Appeal of

• News feeds – boast by post
• Applications – huge range of apps
• Photos/tags comment and tag photos – face recognition
• Events/groups
• Friends find link, be in constant contact + on your mobile
• Messages (superseding email)
• Live chat – (superseding IM)
• Time line
• Video link and embed
• Social location

User age distribution on Facebook in United Kingdom

But I hate charts…

Generation Y
1980’s -1995?
18-32 year olds

55% of UK
Facebook
Users

iGen
1995 – Present
0-17 year olds

11-15%(ish) of
UK Facebook
Users
not supposed to have facbook before age 13!

Generation Y
+ iGen =

70%(ish) of UK Facebook Users!
34% of the UK population

“ It has never been easier to keep in
touch with other people – and people
all over the world.
The church should be part of the public
market place, and making contact in
new ways are an opportunity not a
threat.
I’m sure St Paul would have been a
regular blogger had the technology
been available to him.
Bishop of St Asaph, Gregory Cameron
“

48% OF 18 TO 34 YEAR OLDS

CHECK FACEBOOK
RIGHT WHEN THEY WAKE UP…

ABOUT 28% CHECK THEIR FACEBOOK
ON THEIR SMART PHONES
BEFORE GETTING OUT OF BED.

Smartphones
• 17% of households use as primary web connection
• Over 55% of UK mobile phone sales are smartphones
– 28 million in use
• Usage – 59% to check social networks,
49% to purchase
• 81% never turn their phone off
• 18% of Domino's Pizza sales are via mobile app
• Orange – Do Some Good & Vinspired apps

"In the past you were what you owned. Now you are what you share."
Charles Leadbeater – We Think

“Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken
together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the
measure you use, it will be measured to you.“ Luke 6:38

“The desire to be part of a group that shares, cooperates, or acts
in concert is a basic human instinct.” Clay Shirky

“Communities already exist. Instead, think about how
you can help that community do what it wants to do”
Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook
For Church:
Reaching
The Missing
Generation

The Importance of Privacy
Settings

31% of 12-15 year olds
don’t use privacy settings
on their social
networking profiles
– Ofcom Medial Literacy Report 2009

Inline Privacy

Where are you?

Who are you with?

WHAT IS IT?
"Twitter allows churches to send quick updates, drive traffic to
websites & remind people of events more efficiently than ever.“

USERS ARE THE
MOST INFLUENTIAL
ONLINE GROUP

Reason to Tweet Company or Brand (% of US Twitter Users)
Reason to Tweet % of Users
Get updates on future products 38%
Stay informed about company activities 32
Receive discounts and promotions 31
Get updates on upcoming sales 30
Get free samples, coupons, etc 28
For fun or entertainment 26
Get access to exclusive content 25
Learn more about company 25
Show support to company to others 23
Share ideas, provide feedback 20
For education about company topics 14
Recommended 14
Get direct message from company 10
Source: ExactTarget, August 2010

10 top tips
1. Focus your Twitter use for 6. Mix up your tweets
communicating general 7. Keep a metered, steady
church information flow
2. Use Twitter as one part of 8. Reach out to bloggers in
your overall social media your church that are on
presence Twitter
3. Brand your Twitter page to 9. Give and it shall be given
match your church website unto you.
4. Connect with your followers 10. Keep your tweets positive
through # tags and to the point
5. Be social! Retweet or reply to
tweets

Online tools
you shouldn’t live
without… maybe…
And some I just think are nice!

twitterfall.com
• Twitterfall is a Twitter client specialising in
real-time tweet searches.
New tweets fall into the page.
• Twitterfall has a huge feature list and there
are many actions that can't be done on other
clients.

pinterest.com
• Online Pinboards.

• 56% UK users are Male

• 200,000 UK accounts

• Most followed brands are Topman (52k), ASOS (14k), Topshop (8k)

• 'Home Decor' is most popular category

• Most popular age is 25-34

• Pin boards and share collections of pictures

• In USA most popular with female web users (83%)

• 7.9 million visits in Sept 2012 (786% growth over 12 months)

pinterest.com
10 ideas of how you might use it for your group!

1. Weekly events 6. Wallpapers

2. Staff recommendations 7. Share videos

3. Behind the scenes pics 8. Self-improvement

4. Local community 9. Words to live by

5. User Artwork 10. Share Stories

instagram.com
5 ways to engage youth with it
1. Generate Buzz
2. Behind the scenes of a movement
3. Hash Away
4. “What did I miss?”
5. Show your impact

video streaming

http://uk.24-7prayer.com/stories/big-brother-prayer-room-sheffield-part-2/

Stations of the cross in Hanley
http://vfxhanley.wordpress.com/2011/10/

• around the city centre there are 14 QR Codes hidden.
• each QR Code leads to a password protected post on this blog. The password can
be found with each QR code.
• each post has a picture (station of the cross), a short meditation and the co-
ordinates of the next QR Code.
• The first blog page that introduces the idea will not be password protected but will
have a QR code that will be made into postcards (left in shops with all the
nightclub fliers etc.), put on church notices in the city and, hopefully, the local
newspaper.
• the first blog post will be the beginning of the journey.
• people will be invited to journey through a physical/digital pilgrimage centred
around the stations of the cross.
• Once you have found one, reflected on the station, you use the co-ordinates to
find the next.
• you can do it in a day or a take a few months
• you can either use a smart phone or a good old fashioned map and compass!
• when you’ve found one you can leave a comment on the relevant station blog
post!

Over to you!
• What things are you using that I’ve not mentioned!

• Any innovative ways of using them?
• Ideas… let’s throw some around!

1. Pray 6. Share
Bring Christ into the relationship at the very beginning, and let not only what you are doing, but also what others are
your prayer have more of the ‘Speak, Lord, your servant is doing. This particularly applies to Twitter
listening’ than ‘Lord, open my lips that I may declare your — don’t use it just for self-advertisement!
praise . . .’
10 Rules for Online Engagement

2. Listen 7. Be welcoming
Engage with others, don’t preach at them. Know when to be you need people who disagree with you.
quiet. It’s O.K. to have nothing to say!

3. Respect 8. Be grateful
Don’t abuse anyone or vent your anger online. It will scare off whingers are not very attractive, nor are
some people and make others feel uncomfortable in your those who take things for granted.
presence.

4. Encourage 9. Be yourself
Give help when you can; affirm, compliment, if appropriate. truthfulness is essential. ‘You’ online should
be the same person as ‘you’ offline.

5. Spend time 10. Love
you can’t build good relationships in just a few minutes. You Like prayer, it’s obvious, but unless you pray,
have to be serious about wanting to build a relationship and
unless you love those with whom you come
prepared to commit yourself.
into contact online, you’re wasting your time
as well as theirs.

Sr Catherine Wybourne @Digitalnun
on 16th October 2011

Practice Intentionality, Humility, Authenticity

1. Practice regular check-ins

2. Make the intention to not go online immediately
before bed and immediately after waking up

3. Practice mindful Social Networking

4. Practice authentic Social Networking

5. Adopt one or two Facebook friends for one month


1. Practice regular check-ins

• What am I feeling now?

• What kind of thoughts are going through my head

• What kind of emotions did that email surface?


2. Make the intention to not go online immediately
before bed and immediately after waking up

• Give yourself space

• Perhaps memorise a passage (maybe Psalm 23)

• Say a short prayer – invite God into the details

• Perhaps try a simple examen


3. Practice mindful Social Networking

• How much time do you spend on FB, twitter, etc.?

• How do you spend that time?

• Check in with yourself


4. Practice authentic Social Networking

• Take a look at the pictures you’ve posted

• Evaluate the information you’ve shared

• Try to be YOU


5. Adopt one or two Facebook friends for one month

• Pick a couple of people to give special attention to

• Find out what’s going on in their lives

• Pray for them daily

• Send them nice messages, pictures etc.

• Invite them to meet up

Digital Footprints

• What goes online stays online
• What would a future employer
think?
• How much time are you online?
25 per cent of employers
have reportedly rejected job
candidates after looking at
their Facebook page.

Sister Maria Jesus Galan was expelled from her
convent after spending too much time on
Facebook

“
The digital revolution has created a new kind of eternity
What we do online is there for ever “
So let’s make sure it is worthwhile and consistent with what we believe

Sr Catherine Wybourne
@Digitalnun

“
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is
noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure,
whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable— if
anything is excellent or praiseworthy— “
think *(blog, tweet, post) about such things.
Philippians 4:8

*okay so I added that bit…

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