The Seminary of Hard Knocks Podcast | Church Communications, Marketing, and Social Media
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Monday Oct 14, 2019
Enhancing your ministry with YouTube w/Dave Adamson, Ep. 103
Monday Oct 14, 2019
Monday Oct 14, 2019
THE SEMINARY OF HARD KNOCKS PODCAST with Seth Muse
Helping you find common ground with your people so you can empower them for spiritual growth.
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Do online tools like YouTube, online church, or social media replace IRL ministry (in real life)? Dave Adamson, the social media pastor at Northpoint Ministries with Andy Stanley says no, but we should still be leveraging them. We talk theology of online tools as well as give you several tips for YouTube and how you can reach new people with the second largest search engine!
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Dave on YouTube
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Tuesday Jul 30, 2019
Starting with YouTube at your church w/Alejandro Reyes, Ep. 94
Tuesday Jul 30, 2019
Tuesday Jul 30, 2019
The Seminary of Hard Knocks podcast with Seth Muse
Where church communications are fun, Instagram is life, and no one feels like an idiot.
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I'm bringing Alejandro Reyes back to talk about YouTube! This conversation from a previous episode is so helpful for churches to understand how to leverage YouTube to reach people (especially the younger Gen-Z and Young Millenniel crowd) where they spend a huge portion of their time. Alejandro is walking party, so enjoy this episode!
Links
Podcast gear! Seminarystuff.com is live!
Alejandro on Twitter and YouTubeBecoming a Life-Long Learner episode with Josh BlankenshipSarah Dietschy YouTube ChannelTrey Van Camp YouTube Channelyoutubeforchurches.com
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Monday Oct 08, 2018
Daily Video Isn't Hard w/ Kenny Jahng, Ep. 68
Monday Oct 08, 2018
Monday Oct 08, 2018
The Seminary of Hard Knocks podcast with Seth Muse
Where church communications are fun, Instagram is life, and no one feels like an idiot.
In this week's episode, Kenny Jahng and I join forces to save kittens while discussing how churches can keep up with posting daily videos that engage with their audience. You might think it takes thousands of dollars of equipment and a 3-point lighting rig to make a good video, but you might also be wrong. Find out more on this week's episode of the Podcast!
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Kenny on TwitterButler.church
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Monday Jul 02, 2018
Hosting Online Church Services w/Ben Stapley, ep. 61
Monday Jul 02, 2018
Monday Jul 02, 2018
The Seminary of Hard Knocks podcast with Seth Muse
Show notes available at sethmuse.com/61
Church Communications and Social Media with a chuckle or two.
In this week's episode, I'm talking to Ben Stapley about the philosophy behind church online, how to host it, and how to train others to do it too. We will also talk about charismatic elements you don't see every day.
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88 Ideas for Church Social Media Posts

Tuesday Jan 30, 2018
Reading YouTube Analytics to Reach your Community w/ Lauren McAllister, ep. 45
Tuesday Jan 30, 2018
Tuesday Jan 30, 2018
The Seminary of Hard Knocks Podcast with Seth Muse
Helping church communicators navigate the ever-changing landscape of social media to feel successful every day!
Show Notes are at www.sethmuse.com/45
In this episode, I talk with Lauren McAllister, the communications director at First Baptist Church in Jacksonville, FL about how to read YouTube analytics. Reading these numbers can help you create content for your church YouTube that works and takes a lot of guesswork out of it. She's so much fun to talk to, so I know you'll enjoy it. It also gets super real around the 30min mark, just sayin...

Tuesday Jan 16, 2018
Leveraging YouTube to Reach Your Community w/ Alejandro Reyes, ep. 44
Tuesday Jan 16, 2018
Tuesday Jan 16, 2018
The Seminary of Hard Knocks with Seth Muse
A fine place to expand your knowledge of church communications and social media!
Get the show notes with all the links discussed in this episode at www.sethmuse.com/44

Wednesday Apr 12, 2017
Capturing Great Video Testimonies w/ Ben Stapley, Ep. 25
Wednesday Apr 12, 2017
Wednesday Apr 12, 2017
Ben Stapley from Liquid Church stops by to give us a LOT of practical insight on how to capture those really great video testimonies and baptism stories. He even talks about how to collect stories in your church for videos!
From the pre-interview stage to places to find music tracks for post editing, this podcast has information well worth the hundreds of dollars you would have to spend to learn it elsewhere!
Show notes for this episode can be found at www.sethmuse.com/25
Links in this Episode:
Ben on Twitter & Instagram
BenStapley.info
Amusing Yourself to Death by Neil Postman
Where to find music bed tracks:
Premiumbeats.com
Melodyloops.com
Audiojungle.net
musicvine.net
art-list.io
Seth's addition: Soundstripe.com