Personalizing an existing DST image

DST ends Nov. 7. You’ll want to remind your parishioners (and clergy) to get that well-deserved extra hour of sleep. When doing that, make sure you are honoring copyright guidelines when using any images found on the internet. '

Canva has some fun graphics you can use. Take a photo of your clocks at church or the staffs’ watches and include those in an upcoming newsletter to make it more personal.

Or use one of these I created in Canva for you. I’ve create a two-minute tutorial on how to add your logo and a date, if you’d like to personalize them in Canva or another graphic-editing app. Enjoy!

Creating a Prayer Image to Use on Social Media (via Canva)

Consider creating your own images with prayers from the Book of Common Prayer (or your own) along with your church logo/name to share on social media.

Here are the websites mentioned in this video: https://www.canva.com/ and https://bcp2019.anglicanchurch.net/

Downloading Prayer Images for Social Media

Here is a quick way to bring prayer to social media…use these pre-made prayer images from the Diocese website.

Here is the website mentioned in this video: https://www.anglicandoma.org/special-occasions

Using a Free Resource to Create a Links Page for Instagram (Video 3 of 3)

LinkTree is one of many free resources for creating a quick links page for your instagram account.

Link in Bio for Instagram: WHY? (Video 1 of 3)

Instagram will not make hyperlinks active (like Facebook does) so if you want someone to “read more” about a post…what do you do? Create a links page connected to your Instagram bio!

I currently use Facebook and Instagram somewhat equally. This most likely goes against all social media protocol, but it works for the Diocese for the time-being. I like to post each individual newsletter article from The Mid-Atlantic Messenger with a link to “read more.” This is how I do that for instagram.

Using Business Tools to Schedule/Manage Facebook & Instagram Posts

Facebook Business Tools helps you schedule and manage social media (facebook & instagram) easily! And it’s free. Here is a quick introduction on how that works.