Add a Facebook Like Box to your website

With 500,000,000 people active on Facebook, we need as active as we can in this melding-pot of social media.  A great way to do this is to add a Like Box to your own website.  It links your group's facebook page (I'm assuming your group has one, if not - create one - it's free and very easy to do) to your church or youth group website.

The box is better in my opinion than the standard badges that people put on their website because it shows the entire status of your group page, and also can show even whoever has liked your page, allowing it to gain momentum.

It's as simple as 1, 2, 3.  Here are the steps:

1. Visit the Facebook Developer site for the like box
2. Copy your Facebook group's URL into the box
3. Copy the code that is provided and paste it into your website.

Hope this helps.  Let us know.

Facepad for the iPad

If you like the official Twitter iPad app, as I do, then you very well may enjoy the Facepad app for browsing and posting to Facebook on your iPad.  It's a near copy for Facebook users.  Browse pictures, status updates and links without all the app mess that Farmville and other Facebook apps put all over your live feed.

Try it out and let us know what you think.

Olive Tree BibleReader Update

Didn't know if everyone knew this, but OliveTree put out a fairly significant update (upgrade) to its BibleReader app for the iOS platform. They released Version 5 for your iOS devices just before the new year.  It has several changes such as the look and feel and how you navigate around.

For me the biggest and best part of the update is that it enabled syncing of your notes, highlights, and bookmarks between all your iOS devices.  Something that I've been desiring ever since I got my iPad.

Check it out and let us know your thoughts & opinions.

New Year Tech Hints

As I sit here in my office, with the beautiful aroma of coffee surrounding me, I realized that I needed to get back into the groove of posting and doing my best to help answer questions and hopefully to help resource my fellow youth workers.

So much is going on in tech news today, all about Verizon announcing it finally will be offering Apple's iPhone 4.  I won't be talking about that though, it's being over done right now.  If you want my opinion, feel free to ask in the comments and maybe we can write an interesting response that will come from a different point of view than all the others out there today.

What I do want to share is 3 simple words to help you as you begin the new year.  Three simple plans of attack to help you keep moving as we try to make things easier on ourselves, allowing us more time to spend with students, and saving us from a lot of headaches.

So here we go...