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I wrote earlier in an earlier post that congregations should strategically develop, advertise, and consistently use unique hashtags that makes it easier for social media users to find posts and threads by and about the congregation. To better demonstrate what I mean by this, in this post I want to share a few good examples that I have found by congregations and pastors that I follow on Twitter.
St. Bart’s Episcopal Church in New York City, has used #stbartsnyc in all of their tweets since early November of this year. The St. Bart’s Twitter account made 20 tweets in the past week and consistently used the hashtag in each one. More importantly, two other Twitter users have included #stbartsnyc in their tweets regarding activities at the church, thus leveraging the use of the hashtag to a greater number of Twitter users.
The Peachtree Presbyterian Church in Atlanta seems to have two different Twitter accounts, Peachtree Pres and Peachtree Church, which might cause some confusion and may explain why both accounts consistently use #PeachtreeMessage in their tweets dating back to September of this year. Whatever the reason, the large number of tweets with the hashtag is sure to generate some attention in the Twitterverse. Both accounts also include the Twitter address for Rev. Mark Crumpler, pastor of Teaching and Spiritual Formation, in their tweets as a means to facilitate communication and connecting between pastor and Twitter followers.
The Lakewood United Methodist Church in Lakewood, Ohio uses #lkwdumc and has used Twitter as a means by which people could vote on whether the pastor, Rev. Bruce Hartley, should keep or shave his beard.
Finally, the First United Methodist Church of McKenzie, Tennessee, a congregation that I featured in an earlier post as a congregation that is making impressive use of social media, has used #adventmckfirst in their tweets during the past few weeks to encourage congregational participation in a Photo a Day Advent exercise using the congregation’s Instagram account: http://instagram.com/mckfirst/.
Please, share your unique hashtags and how you are using them in a reply to this post.