Hot off the JTA Press: Synagogues and Social Media
Read all about it: “Synagogues Blogging and Tweeting their Way to New Kinds of Communication,” by Sue Fishkoff on JTA!
The article describes how congregations around the country are taking advantage of resources such as webcasts, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, and video. Darim’s Lisa Colton notes that synagogues and religious schools are using social media to foster new models of community participation and engagement.
Props to our Darim Online members and friends - including Ellen Dietrick @cbipreschool; Gabby Volodarsky, Temple Sinai Oakland; Rabbi Alan Lucas and Rabbi Jeni Friedman at Temple Beth Sholom, Roslyn; Rabbi Jonathan Blake, Westchester Reform Temple; @Sixth & I; and, Congregation Ner Tamid - for diving into social media territory and sharing their stories!
How is your synagogue or religious community tapping into social media? Share YOUR stories!
Lisa led a workshop for the Synogogue council of Massachusetts that really opened my eyes to social networking as a tool for community building. I am taking her up on the suggestion to listen, but it is more my nature to talk. So I do.
We are geographically spread out in the eastern part of Massachusetts, so we already communicate via email and website. Facebook and Twitter are new media for us.