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I'm wondering what the best form of communication is for staying in touch with youth and informing them of what's going on? It seems like my youth rarely check their email, which is frustrating. They respond well to text messages, but you can't fit a ton of content in there.
And not many are on Facebook or check out the youth pages on our website.
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"R U EVIL?" Come tonight at 630 to find out more! This is an example of a recent text I sent out to our Youth. When they showed up that night I found out that it started several discussions in school. I try to be creative and not boring and find texting to be the quickest and most effective way to communicate. Even send short prayers to them during school (even though they "shouldn't" be using them, THEY DO). |
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Text is best. And I think you can get the basics in. |
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We use text messaging and myspace bulletins for the fastest and most effective way to get information out. Most of my kids give the dear in headlight look when I start talking about the old-school stuff...like email. |
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Call me old-fashioned (at least in this regard), but I tend to go with old-school repetition of announcements, newsletters, etc. for most things. That's partly because my church has mailboxes for the families so I know that what is put in there will make it to a parent. Another thing (believe it or not) is that I have at least one or two families who either do not have internet at home or do not allow text messaging at all on cell phones (if the kid even has one). |
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I hear texting is a good option, but i am not willing to make the jump yet, i still like the old style of communication. I have found e-mail is out dated, but facebook is still popular and i find it a good way to communicate! |
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I have found that text messages really are the best for communicating. Even though you are not getting the most content you get there attention. If you join text messages with E-mail you can get more. What I mean is if you have a message of lagre content that needs to be commuincated send it out in E-mail then text erveryone and tell them tht you just sent out an E-mail that you need them to look at. |
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I have found that SMS works best, too. You do have to be concise -- oftentimes I will give a teaser and the info can be found on the website. We use NSpire at our church -- it has a SMS feature built in -- I just run a report and it sends to the students' phones. You MUST have their carrier because it uses the email feature. All the various carrier's email to SMS info is already coded into the software. |
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I tend to use facebook a lot but I have found that even the teens don't check facebook very often. So I typically send text MSG to the teens with a catchy phrase that will interest them in finding out more. I post more info in our facebook group. I don't like TXTSignal.com because it cost $$$ what I do is I email a MSG to there Phone. It’s is not hard to set up and it is free check out this site for more info. http://www.sms411.net/2006/07/how-to-send-email- to-phone.html |
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Sms and learning the gift of brevity is best. Say something exciting and encouraging at the same time in sms text - I announce the theme or program for the next meeting and thank all my leaders for their great work with it afterwards. |
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I have a blog post coming up about this that will give more detail (and I'm also speaking on this very subject at the National Youth Ministry Conference later this month), but to summarize my findings: |
