Brigada

Everybody always rags on Facebook. Then… have you noticed? Everybody always goes and checks it. :-) How is your organization or ministry using Facebook for good? What approaches have you used to adapt it… so it’s safe, or private, or effective? Just click “Comment” following the web form of this item. Thanks in advance!

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I know. You’re thinking — “How can you possibly use those two words in the same title???” But the truth is, it was prompted by Facebook’s own CEO getting hacked last month. They probably picked up his browsing via a public wi-fi hotspot. (What in the world? Mr. Zuckerberg presumably has, at his disposal, an [...]

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This past week, Brigada joined the “500 Club”: Over 500 people clicked “Like” on Facebook. Are you a Facebook member? If you have a moment, just log on to this URL: http://www.facebook.com/brigada Then click “Like.” Let’s see if someday we can hit 1000!

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Find it at… http://www.facebook.com/Brigada So far, some 32 friends have clicked “Like” but 346 have stopped by to view the page. Honest… the “Like” button doesn’t cost you anything. :-) But it does indeed bump up the page in search optimization significantly. Thanks!

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Perceptive Facebookers caught our late-night slip-up. That address, if you’d be so kind of “Like” Brigada on Facebook, should have been… http://www.facebook.org/brigada Just click on that link. You might have to log on to Facebook to have a link to “Like” it. It’s an easy way to help Brigada without having to send a check. [...]

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Are you a Facebooker? If so, would you go to the Brigada page on Facebook and click “Like” please? If so, it might help us generate some new Brigada readers. Either way, it won’t cost you a peso. Just browse here: http://www.facebook.com/brigada And click “Like.” Thanks!

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The growth of Facebook has been remarkable. Total users reached 500 million this month. Indeed, Facebook is becoming a ‘web within the Web’, a portal to everything. It offers great potential for Christians to share the good news, but only if we understand the nature of social networking and how to use it appropriately. For [...]

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In our continuing exploration, Tony passed along some new ways that missions can use Facebook and Twitter in evangelism. See… http://www.internetevangelismday.com/facebook-missions.php and http://www.internetevangelismday.com/twitter

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Internet Evangelism Day explains the potential of Facebook for evangelism, especially for cross-cultural missions: http://www.internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/1417 (Thanks for the note, Tony!)

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A buddy of mine working in a very sensitive field would like to know. He’ll use his VPN to watch this page directly. He wrote, “Two of the websites we made that got about 250K hits were recently blocked so we’re looking into alternatives.” Would you be able to direct him to any Facebook apps [...]

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Are you a Facebooker? If so, you’ll probably want to scan… http://www.allfacebook.com/2009/02/facebook-privacy/ The author suggests 10 preferences that are significant for personal security. (I’d tell you who gave us this item, but then we’d be compromising his security. :-) ) Along with this, our informant suggested that we might want to advise folks *not* to [...]

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We’re especially wondering how workers in secure fields (sensitive places or “creative access” countries) are supposed to interact there. If you’ve been hiding out on another planet over the past 2 years… or otherwise have missed the massive growth of one of the Internet’s most successful ventures, just log on at… http://www.facebook.com create an identity/user [...]

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Check out… http://ion2008.ning.com/ for the skinny on Bible storytelling. They have an upcoming conference, Sept. 9-12th, but to learn about that, you’ll have to have a Facebook account and view the info at http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=56117187960 [What do you think about promoting an event exclusively on Facebook? Just click “Comment” below:

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