{"id":7391,"date":"2010-11-12T22:48:37","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T22:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=7391"},"modified":"2010-11-12T22:48:37","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T22:48:37","slug":"churches-claim-your-free-social-media-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/online-marketing\/churches-claim-your-free-social-media-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Churches, claim your free social media platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2010\/11\/Table-Project.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7409\" style=\"margin: 4px 10px\" title=\"Table Project\" src=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2010\/11\/Table-Project.jpg\" alt=\"Man holding up a green sign that says &quot;We want a table!&quot;\" width=\"230\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a>Looking for a social media site where members of your church can recruit volunteers, share prayers on the Prayer Wall,\u00a0and announce the next Friday fish fry?<\/p>\n<p>Compete to win one of 28 remaining slots offered\u00a0by The TableProject and your church can have its own platform immediately.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Enter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First, host\u00a0a get-together like a potluck at your church, or ask people to bring their own food. Seat them at tables, or preferably one very long table, and have someone hold up a sign that says,\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;We Want a Table.&#8221; Post the photo on Twitter with the words &#8220;We want the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/table\">@table!<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>You can read the rules and <a href=\"http:\/\/tableproject.org\/manifesto\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Manifesto<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/tableproject.org\/let-s-get-together\/\" target=\"_blank\">see photos<\/a> already submitted. The one shown here is from Cornerstone Church (city unknown).<\/p>\n<p>The Table is currently in limited release, and churches can&#8217;t get an account\u00a0right now unless they participate in the Twitter contest. So far, 22 churches have accounts and are experimenting with them and offering feedback before the platforms are offered to churches everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>As a bonus, the largest get-together (longest table) wins four hours of free\u00a0consulting with the Table team. \u00a0(So far, the longest table is 64 feet.)<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like a fun contest,\u00a0and I love the photo idea. A hat tip to PR guy David Niles of\u00a0Brookfield, Wis., for this one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Promote Your Church Events<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Churches and other nonprofits can learn more about how to promote events and anything else they&#8217;re doing at my webinar\u00a0&#8220;60+ Places Offline to Promote Your Product, Service, Cause, Issue or Event to Build the Buzz and Encourage Others to Promote You&#8221; on Nov. 23.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Register here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for a social media site where members of your church can recruit volunteers, share prayers on the Prayer Wall,\u00a0and announce the next Friday fish fry? Compete to win one of 28 remaining slots offered\u00a0by The TableProject and your church can have its own platform immediately. How to Enter First, host\u00a0a get-together like a potluck\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/online-marketing\/churches-claim-your-free-social-media-platform\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":1,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[612],"tags":[645,617],"class_list":{"0":"post-7391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-online-marketing","7":"tag-free-social-media-tools","8":"tag-nonprofit-marketing","9":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}