5 Social Media Tools You Need to Use!

A few weeks back I did a blog on Internet memes, and how you could use them to further enhance your communication with kids. Well the truth is there are plenty of great resources that are practically begging to be used creatively for ministry, you just have to know about them:

 

Pic Monkey - Don't have the money for a fancy photo shop program? That's fine, because with Pic Monkey you don't need software or even a membership. Just simply visit their website and get cracking with all of their amazing tools for touching up photos, adding cool effects, and putting on text. I have used it to make several flashy advertisements for youth group activities...

Tagzedo - A website (again absolutely free and has no registration) that allows you to make unique word clouds in a matter of minutes. It has tons of options (colors, fonts, shapes) and lets you randomize infinitely if you don't like how it came out. It is really amazing, and using it to artistically display kids names in your youth group makes them feel like you really went out of your way to make some custom art just for them.

 

 

Spotify - If you haven't heard of Spotify, it's like Pandora and iTunes had a baby together. Its great for making your own custom playlists and you can access it from any computer with a Internet connection. It is of great use for throwing together playlists for events (without having to spend any money), but is also good for pulling off a "Name that Tune" sort of game. I have made up a few that you can check out here.

Top Tenz - This is just a website that compiles some pretty nice/funny/useless top ten lists that can actually prove useful should you find yourself needing to make a random time-suck power point to entertain a crowd in between parts of your event, or if you are looking for some good illustrations for a lesson. The website has featured articles on the front page, but also has categories and a search box. Another great aspect is that just about everything listed has a picture or Youtube video linked to it.

Quickmeme - Yeah, yeah. I know this might be redundant, but this is probably the hottest and most relevant tool to teen culture you can use right now. Just like the ones listed above, you can access this website for free and without giving up any personal information to make some fun pictures for whatever reason you like. However, I would suggest that you use a photo snipping/capturing program to get the the best quality photos without a watermark on them after you have made your creation.

 

So there you have it. Five different websites that I highly encourage you to use to sharpen your ministry. If you have any other sites or social media tools that you find useful please let us know in the comment section below.