Social Media and You
Whether Twitter and Facebook are mysteries to you or things you use frequently, Br. Thomas Squiers, the Social Media Coordinator for the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, can be of assistance.
Br. Thomas sends out news feeds on Twitter and Facebook regularly. Some daily feeds include meditations, mentions of Saints Days and other feasts, etc.
"You can follow the diocese daily on Twitter at
www.twitter.com/DioFW. If you have a Twitter account, our "handle" is DioFW. If you are tweeting, don't forget to use our hashtag #DioFW at the end of your tweet," Thomas said.
"On Facebook - we now have a NEW page (which means if you are on the old page - you need to add yourself to our new page due to Facebook's change in how they do Pages) which can be found here:
http://j.mp/lb7WG5. Just go to that page and click "Like" so that you can begin receiving postings in your feed."
RSS (short for Really Simple Syndication) is used to publish frequently updated works,
such as blog entries and news headlines. They benefit readers who want to subscribe to timely updates from favored
websites. You can subscribe to a feed by clicking a feed icon in your web browser that initiates the subscription process.
RSS allows users to avoid manually inspecting all of the websites they are interested in and instead subscribe to websites
so that all new content is pushed onto their browsers when it becomes available.
To set up your own RSS feed, click on the RSS symbol on our homepage.
And of course, you can also keep up with what is going on by checking the diocesan website regularly: www.episcopaldiocesefortworth.org. Please consider signing up to receive e-mails from the diocese here: http://bit.ly/mdwQcq
And if all of this seems like a foreign language, Br. Thomas is available to help translate.
"You can call on me directly and I will be happy to go over this with you. I also assist parishes with Social Media setups, etc. Just send me an e-mail at SocialMediaCoordinator@episcopaldiocesefortworth.org if you need further assistance," Br. Thomas said.