Monday, February 20, 2012

Communication for Spring Break Mission San Antonio 2012

While we are in San Antonio we want to keep you as updated and informed as possible.  We’ve designed several avenues for you to access that information as easily as possible while we are away; Twitter, HPUMC Youth website, our Blog, and our Facebook page.  Please read below for more information. 

Twitter- If you are on twitter, please follow @HPUMCYouth.  If you want to get an account, head to twitter.com, signup for an account, and choose to follow us.  Twitter is essentially a mini-blog or mini message board.  This is where in 140 characters/letters or less you can say whatever you want.  We will use this to post thoughts from the day, photos, and videos.  You can access this from both your computer or if you have a smart phone.  The youth staff is all on twitter, so if you would like to follow us we are;

Stephen Lohoefer- @StephenLohoefer
Phil Dieke- @PhilDieke
Bill Gepford- @BillGepford
Andrew Beard- @Hasabeard
Hillary Barnard- @HillBarnard

If you have no interest in getting a twitter account, our twitter feed/posts will be on our website, our facebook, and our blog.  You can also just go to twitter.com/hpumcyouth and see our twitter feed without logging in or getting an account.  When we do twitter updates, we will tag our tweets with #HPFearFactor.  So if you tweet something about the trip, please tag it with #HPFearFactor as well.

HPUMC Youth website- HPUMCYouth.org.  You can access this by using the URL or you can navigate there through the HPUMC.org website.  On the homepage we have a twitter feed that will update every time we tweet something.  As well on the youth page you can access the HPUMC Youth Blog.  We will probably be having youth updating this throughout the trip. 

Blog- hpumcstudents.blogspot.com.  This is the website that you are currently on...so somehow you got here before, but here is what we'll be putting on this site.  We’ll have youth post thoughts from the day and possibly photos and videos.  With inconsistent Internet connection, this will potentially be the least updated form of communication.  The blog can be accessed from a computer or a smart phone.  There are several ways to access the blog; type in the URL listed above, go to the youth website and click “the blog” link under the video on the right side of the homepage, or scan the QR code below for quick access to a mobile version for your smart phone.
Facebook- www.facebook.com/hpumcstudents.  Our facebook page will have our twitter feed as well as photos and videos from our trip.  You can access this by going to the URL listed above, from our website, or just typing in “hpumc students” in the facebook search.  You will need to “like” our page to have it show on your news feed.

We hope you will take advantage of these opportunities to see what we are up to while we are gone.  Please let us know if you have any questions and feel free to pass this information to family and friends so they can stay updated on our trip as well.