Sunday, December 20, 2009

Christians Use Online Social Networking to Strengthen Community During Christianity.com Webcast

Discussion surrounding Christianity.com’s abide webcast of The Gospel Coalition 2009 National Conference on April 21 – 23, took the amusing arrangement website Twitter.com by storm as hundreds of admirers and attendees dialogued about appointment speakers and aggregate addendum online.

Richmond, VA (Vocus/PRWEB ) April 30, 2009 -- Discussion surrounding Christianity.com’s abide webcast of The Gospel Coalition 2009 National Conference on April 21 – 23, took the amusing arrangement website Twitter.com by storm as hundreds of admirers and attendees dialogued about appointment speakers and aggregate addendum online.

Christian Community Embraces Technologies to Advance the Gospel

While churches and Christian ministries generally attempt to actuate the best means to advance the internet to ability a broader audience, Christianity.com’s webcast of The Gospel Coalition’s Conference accepted that the Christian abbey and association can embrace new technologies and advanced the Gospel in means never afore imagined We are captivated by the astronomic absolute acknowledgment we’ve accustomed about this event, abnormally from our accompany on accepted amusing networking websites like Twitter.com and Facebook.com This appointment webcast brought arduous apostolic teaching to bags who were clumsy to appear the appointment due to banking and added constraints. Social networking websites accustomed these online admirers to collaborate with those in absolute attendance By all measures the webcast was a amazing success This technology enabled us to ability a far greater admirers than contrarily possible. We are beholden for the affiliation with Christianity.com. “While churches and Christian ministries generally attempt to actuate the best means to advance the internet to ability a broader audience, Christianity.com’s webcast of The Gospel Coalition’s Conference accepted that the Christian abbey and association can embrace new technologies and advanced the Gospel in means never afore imagined,” said Stephen McGarvey, the controlling editor of Christianity.com. “We are captivated by the astronomic absolute acknowledgment we’ve accustomed about this event, abnormally from our accompany on accepted amusing networking websites like Twitter.com and Facebook.com”

On the aboriginal day of the abide webcast, Twitter.com comments for the Christianity.com/The Gospel Coalition webcast by online admirers and attendees soared to over 1,100 posts, sending it to the homepage of Twitter and into the circadian top 20 a lot of talked about items. Conference participants acquaint over 2,400 times on Twitter.com during the three day event.

More than 26,000 humans visited the chargeless video webcast on Christianity.com. Additional accord on the amusing arrangement website Facebook.com and in the claimed blogs of affecting abbey leaders aswell contributed to the immense success of the webcast.

“This appointment webcast brought arduous apostolic teaching to bags who were clumsy to appear the appointment due to banking and added constraints. Social networking websites accustomed these online admirers to collaborate with those in absolute attendance,” added McGarvey. “From new Christians to adept abbey attendees to abbey leaders and accustomed pastors, anybody benefited from The Gospel Coalition speakers and the adeptness to interface with one addition about event.

“By all measures the webcast was a amazing success,” said The Gospel Coalition Co-founder Don Carson, a Research Professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield Illinois. “This technology enabled us to ability a far greater admirers than contrarily possible. We are beholden for the affiliation with Christianity.com.”

All sessions from The Gospel Coalition 2009 National Conference are accessible on-demand for chargeless at Christianity.com as able-bodied as video of apostolic questions answered by The Gospel Coalition pastors and leaders.

Visit: http://www.christianity.com/gospelcoalition/
With added than 3,000 in appearance at the appointment in Chicago, Illinois, Christianity.com is admiring to aggrandize the ability of The Gospel Coalition’s bulletin as delivered by some of the a lot of admired abbey leaders today including Tim Keller, John Piper, and Mark Driscoll. As the online destination for airy advance and apostolic resources, the aggregation at Christianity.com looks advanced to alms approaching abide webcasts and solid biblical agreeable for Christians about the world.

About Christianity.com
Christianity.com is a arch provider of Christian agreeable committed to allowance users abound in their Christian acceptance and ability of the Bible. Christianity.com is endemic and operated by the Salem Web Network, (SWN) the online analysis of Salem Communications. SWN consists of 12 civic sites, including the a lot of acclaimed brands in the acceptance marketplace, such as Crosswalk.com, OnePlace.com, and Bible Study Tools. Visit: www.salemwebnetwork.com.

About The Gospel Coalition
The Gospel Coalition is a groundbreaking acquisition of Christian leaders in the Reformed attitude who contentment in the accuracy and ability of the gospel, and who attending to abode the actuality of Christ crucified and adored at the centermost of all they cherish, preach, and teach. The Gospel Coalition seeks to advance a arrangement of Christian pastors and leaders who animate one addition to adherence and abundance in activity and admiral in this rapidly-changing and spiritually athirst world. Visit: www.thegospelcoalition.org.

About Salem Communications
Salem Communications (NASDAQ: SALM) is a arch U.S. radio broadcaster, Internet agreeable provider, and annual and book administrator targeting audiences absorbed in Christian and family-themed agreeable and bourgeois values. In accession to its radio properties, Salem owns Salem Radio Network(R), which syndicates talk, account and music programming to about 2,000 affiliates; Salem Radio Representatives(TM), a civic radio bartering sales force; Salem Web Network(TM), an Internet provider of Christian agreeable and online streaming; and Salem Publishing(TM), a administrator of Christian-themed magazines. Upon the abutting of all appear transactions, the aggregation will own 93 radio stations, including 59 stations in 23 of the top 25 markets. Additional advice about Salem may be accessed at the company's website, www.salem.cc.

Contact:
Kristie Rutzel
(804) 205-9674
kristie.rutzel(at)salemwebnetwork.com

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