Best Times to Post on Social Media

Social media is such a powerful tool - especially in student ministry.  It allows us to rally students. Engage them after a message.  Play fun games.  Brag on students who do something awesome.  Post pictures that happen at events.  But what are the best times to reach people on these networks?  Check out this infographic:

Managing Social Media in an Hour

I run our church's social media - Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare, YouTube, Vimeo - as well as the same stuff for our Youth.  I love it!  And I hate it.

I love it because it's another way to engage people with great content from sermons, help for parents, blog posts, events, and just about anything else.  I get a pulse on my audience.  

I hate it because it can become a time-waster.

But the lovely folks at RO4R just put out a great little helper:  Social Media an Hour a Day.

Social Media and Sharing in 2011

I love social media.  I manage our church's Facebook page, our twitter page, and our student ministry Facebook page.  So I try to keep myself up on what's working and what's not when it comes to how people interact with content on blogs and the web.  AddThis produced this handy little Trend graphic, that landed in my inbox today, so I thought I'd share it.

One of the things that I found interesting was the information about Google+.  I have one, and I don't love it.  But so far I haven't fully dove into it (maybe that's my problem).  AddThis is a widely used add-on to web and blog content to easily share stuff on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and about any other place you might share content.  I've wondered if Google+ wasn't going so well, since it seemed like a hot topic a while back, but never seemed to really grab hold.  Now, with AddThis's trend sheet, I know.