I have enjoyed being involved in #SMCKC, the Social Media Club of Kansas City. I have learned a lot from others, particularly over the past few months in presentations on social media efforts from various local companies. In addition, conversations have proven to be fruitful.
So why not #smcumc? A Social Media Club for The United Methodist Church? A mission or purpose statement could be similar to that found at the #SMCKC website:
“Our primary goal is to help the greater Kansas City and sister communities across the country understand social media’s purpose, use and benefits. #smckc was founded on six pillars: Awareness, Education, Advocacy, Industry Leadership, Adoption of Standards, and Technology.”
I believe that the UMC at all levels, from local church to general agencies and general conference could benefit from better leveraging social media.
Who’s in?
Rev. Andrew Conard 
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This probably requires General Conference authorization, right? I’m in.
i’m in.. betcha couldn’t have guessed that one.
Count me in! Do we have a 2010 list of annual conference dates, tweeters & hashtags yet? Couldn’t find any on UMC.org.
Previously Used Annual Conference #Hashtags (these were the ones used last year and could have changed) Can we pare them down to determine which ones will be re-used or are in use year round? I assume the ones with 09 will either be updated with “2010” or “10” or maybe the year will be dropped altogether…
• #arumc – Arkansas (@ar_umc)
• #awfumc09 – Alabama – West Florida
• #ctc09 – Central Texas
• #gnjac2009 – Greater New Jersey
• #dscumc – Desert Southwest
• #flumc – Florida
• #kac – Kentucky
• #kseumc – Kansas East
• #kswumc – Kansas West (@kswumc)
• #inumc – Indiana
• #moac09 – Missouri
• #mnumc – Minnesota
• #msac – Mississipi
• #naumc – North Alabama
• #nccumc – North Carolina
• #neumc – New England
• #ngumc09 – North Georgia
• #ntxac – North Texas
• #nyumc – New York
• #okumc – Oklahoma
• #pcaumc – any tweets about the proposed constitutional amendments for the denomination.
• #pnwac – Pacific Northwest
• #rmcumc – Rocky Mountain
• #sgaumc09 – South Georgia
• #theaumc – Alaska
• #tnumc – Tennessee
• #txac – Texas
• #umcnic – Northern Illinois (@umcnic)
• #umcsc – South Carolina
• #wncc – Western North Carolina
• #wocumc – West Ohio
• #wvac09 – West Virginia
• #yacumc – Yellowstone
• #scjumc – South Central Jurisdiction
Texas’ official account is @txac (much shorter; yay!); we’ll be meeting 5/31-6/2 in The Woodlands, TX.
I’m in.
Great!
For Annual Conference hashtags, keep an eye on @UMCommunication on Twitter, they’ve been posting some of those today.
Kansas East Conference also can be found at @kecumc.
I’m in.
Count me in… are you thinking a platform like ning? http://www.transformnetwork.org/
Oh yeah! I’m there… as long as I can remember another hashtag:)
Of course! Count me in, too.
I’m in.
I’m in!
Count the UMW in!
Oklahoma should have an active tweet-ingent at #okumc as you said. Thanks Andrew!
A connectional church using social media. Wesley would have loved it 🙂
Love the idea. Hope we can keep the innovative spirit.
I’m in! By the way, hashtag for the Detroit Annual Conference is #dac2010.
PT
I’m in.
BTW, my conference, Central Pennsylvania (CPC), will have its closing conference on June 4-5 and its uniting conference on June 12. The churches of CPC will be uniting with the Pennsylvania churches of the Wyoming Conference to form a new conference called the Susquehanna Conference.
It should be a very active couple weekends!
Sounds great I am in! I think it would be good to rethink some of the pillars though. Perhaps one on Service/Prayer/Connections off the top of my head.
That list of all the annual conference hashtags is impressive! Nice work to somebody who put that together!
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I’m in. For sure.