Social media is an easy and effective way for ministers and churches to engage with their congregations and beyond.<\/p>\n
However, there are a few things to keep in mind if you wish to have a successful social media presence. For example, social media is about engagement, not broadcasting, and each channel (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc) should be treated differently.<\/p>\n
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We have created a social media toolkit to help\u00a0you use social media strategically and safely. It is suitable for people who are new to social media and those who want to use their channels more effectively.<\/p>\n
The toolkit contains six documents, which you can locate and download at the bottom of this page:<\/p>\n
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Our\u00a0Facebook page\u00a0<\/a>and Twitter account<\/a> are designed to promote discussion and feedback, however the moderator reserves the right, without explanation, to exclude any content which does not conform to the following\u00a0guidelines:<\/p>\n When posting material, we ask you to be respectful by not using language that is: threatening,\u00a0abusive, defamatory, indecent, offensive or constitutes harassment, unlawful, aggressively argumentative,\u00a0pointlessly repetitive, constitutes bullying or \u2018trolling\u2019, vilifying or attacking individuals on the basis of personal\u00a0characteristics, or is irrelevant to the topic under discussion.<\/p>\n This includes using this site as a forum\u00a0to elicit support from others to join other sites or groups that intend to sabotage or demean.<\/p>\n Any posts or comments which breach these guidelines will be deleted and users who continually\u00a0abuse them may be banned.<\/p>\n Disclaimer:\u00a0The views of Facebook\/Twitter users interacting with these\u00a0accounts are not the views of the Uniting Church in Australia\u00a0Victoria and Tasmania Synod.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Social media is an easy and effective way for ministers and churches to engage with their congregations and beyond. We have created a toolkit to help you use social media strategically and safely. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5804,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5803","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/church.debug.victas.uca.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/church.debug.victas.uca.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/church.debug.victas.uca.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church.debug.victas.uca.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church.debug.victas.uca.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/church.debug.victas.uca.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22226,"href":"https:\/\/church.debug.victas.uca.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5803\/revisions\/22226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church.debug.victas.uca.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/church.debug.victas.uca.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Related Documents<\/h4>\n