ST. LOUIS – How do you make sure 16,000 students attending a five-day missions conference have the best opportunity to engage in what God has planned for them? You “overlay” the event with social media, more specifically with Twitter, says Adam Jeske, who is leading a 14-member social media team during Urbana ’12.
While perhaps breaking new ground with the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship’s triennial Student Missions Conference held through New Year’s Eve, Jeske and his “squad,” as they like to be called, do more than tweet announcements or post photos on Facebook or Instagram. They engage in real-time dialogue about matters of faith. Additionally, groups of similar interest and focus can connect with each other by simply following specific Twitter feeds. The conference hashtag (#u12) is just the beginning.
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