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Have you seen this webinar?

We have all heard about the importance of a church website, the craze of social networking and the need for pastors to blog. But how effective are these really in gathering people, creating community and fostering discipleship? Learn how to enhance your web ministry and impact hundreds, if not thousands of people. Learn from case studies and best practices from churches that have been successful doing ministry online. This valuable webinar will equip you with practical strategies whether you are an online expert or a beginner.

Presented by Drew Goodmanson and sponsored by Monk Development and Denver Seminary.

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Check it out here:

http://www.twitalyzer.com/

Putting in your name:

It’s easy! Just put your name into the Twitalyze field and click Twitalyze!

Put the twitter account your checking in here.

Results For ChurchWebSherpa:

Here’s what we can find out about ChurchWebSherpa on Twitter.

ChurchWebSherpa's results

The following explanations for the metrics come straight from www.twitalyzer.com.

Influence is calculated based on:

• Your relative reach in Twitter, measured by the number of followers you have
• Your relative authority, measured by the number of times you are “retweeted“
• Your relative generosity, measured by the number of times you “retweet” others
• Your relative clout, measured by the number of times you are referenced by others
• Your relative velocity, measured by the number of updates you publish over a seven day period

Signal-to-Noise-Ratio is a measure of the tendency for people to pass information, as opposed to anecdote.

By their definition, “signal” will be counted for any update that includes at least one of the following elements:

• References to other people (defined by the use of “@” followed by text)
• Links to URLs you can visit (defined by the use of “http://” followed by text)
• Hashtags you can explore and participate with (defined by the use of “#” followed by text)
• Retweets of other people, passing along information (defined by the use of “rt”, “r/t/”, “retweet” or “via”)

Generosity is one’s propensity to “retweet” someone else, thusly creating awareness of their work and ideas among your own followers.

• Yes you could sort of stuff this metric by retweeting constantly. However if this is not abused, the authors of the metric figure your RT’s are actually beneficial to the freer flow of information.

Velocity is simply the rate at which you contribute to Twitter. Since the Twitter Search APIs limit us to 1,500 records, at least for the time being, you are judged against a theoretical maximum of 1,500 updates per week.

Clout is simply the number of references to you divided by the total number of possible references (as governed by the Twitter Search APIs).

All in all, you could work on increasing your stats in these metrics to rise in influence rankings, and finding yourself more connected, and influential, on Twitter.  Which may or may not have been the reason you got on Twitter the first place.  Just remember that it’s about a two-way exchange of information and content, not about a marketing megaphone pointed straight at someone’s head.  Twitter is about the relationship!

Some Additional Helpful Metrics at the Bottom of the Results Page:

Finally, you can track who a person is following by looking at Friends, and Followers are people who are following, of course.

Other stats below help a user keep track of some of the metrics that go into the Influence algorithm.

Additional Helpful Stats

The Review:

All in all, it seems like a powerful tool to grab a benchmark for your own performance as compared to other people who are twittering on the Web Sphere.   You can also use this tool to determine who you want to follow, or not follow, without having to read someone’s profile, or message them to find out if they’re legitimate, or just another money-generating bot.  Tools are included to help you move your way on up the Twitter “Influence” chain.  Here’s what a -really- influential person’s Twitalyzer looks like:

Guy Kawasaki:

100%

Caveat:

The level of influence that Guy Kawasaki is at is probably not the level that most lower commitment tweeps would want to operate at.  There are probably a lot of posts lined up ahead of time, indicating lots of work to create all that content.  The average light twitter user is also probably going to not want to also receive hundreds of tweets per hour, in essence, a dilution of tweet quality, if all you’re really trying to do is keep track of a few friends (something like <100).

-ChurchWebSherpa

What Do You Think of Twitalyzer?

Phase I research began to frame the landscape & attitudes in this space. In this research we examined questions such as:

• What feature/functionality are Christians seeking for social networking?
• What Social Media strategies and services do they or their church use?
• What Christian social media websites do they participate in?

WATCH THE WEBINAR Church, Christians and Social Networking
DOWNLOAD STUDY SUMMARY Churches, Christians and Social Networking Study (PDF)

In Phase II of the project, we will be expanding on many of the issues raised in the initial research. Through a more in‐depth survey and targeted phone interviews, we hope to develop a better understand how pervasive the use of these web applications is and how churches are approaching community and social networks.

We will gather data on usage, experiences, satisfaction, behavior, preferences, perceptions, and demographics. We will go beyond traditional metrics in order determine how these tools promote activities that are central to being Christian and being the church. Our aim is to both help bring clarity and guidance for churches to pursue excellence online while providing market intelligence that will help the developers of these applications improve their sales and products.

Ever wonder what churches similar to you are doing IT wise? How many computers do they support? What’s their IT staff size? Do they support multi-site, etc? Or what about those churches several steps ahead of you - what’s their IT makeup look like? How should you plan now to be at that size in the future?
What about trying to find churches around you with experience in VoIP, Virtualization, etc? Wouldn’t it be sweet to have a resource that helped shed some light on these questions? Hopefully this survey can at least get you started in the right direction.

Would you like to submit your church to participate? We ask that you have Google Analytics set-up on your site for at least 3-months, preferably a year. We will ask participating churches to send a quick survey to their members. Make sure either you are the contact person or you can provide the person who can send church members a quick survey regarding their usage of the church website?

In addition to this survey you can also participate in The State of the Church Online - Part I Social & Community Networks survey. Our prayer is that these studies help bring clarity and guidance for churches to pursue excellence online to the glory of God.

Link: The State of the Church Online - Part II Church Websites & Usage

This survey is being led by Kevin Ring. Kevin brings years of experience from Bainbridge Consulting leading qualitative research projects - designing and executing customer/competitive research and analysis across multiple industries, focused on Fortune 500 companies including Google, Yahoo!, Citibank, Hewitt Associates, Gallup, Bank of America and others.

Click Here to take survey

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Web Standards: NO (Learn why all flash sites are bad.)
SEO Friendly URLS: NO (Because the sites are entirely flash, links are not used.)
Syndication: NO
Unique Design: NO
Web Based: YES

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