
Podcast Episode 01: Crisis Communications with Justin Dean
Welcome to my first ever podcast. I’m so thrilled to introduce this new format on my blog. I hope as you listen to all of the upcoming episodes you will listen and learn from these amazingly talented professionals (I have some more very experienced and capable people coming up!).
I’m being very selective about who will be right for you to spend your precious time listening and learning from. They will all be practitioners with extensive experience in their field who will bring insights that will help you reach more people and create more impact (I love that phrase and borrowed it from Michael Hyatt).
My first guest is Justin Dean. Justin was the PR/Communications Director at Mars Hill Church in Seattle. What he doesn’t know about crisis communications isn’t worth knowing. Justin is now a big cheese at ‘That Church Conference’ which creates ‘Practical Digital Communications Training for Churches & Ministries. He also more recently created That Church Community which is ‘A place for the church communications community to share and collaborate online.’
The podcast is also available on iTunes so you can also subscribe there!
Show notes
That Church Conference – Find out more here (Note: affiliate link, same price for you, but my goal is that hopefully I’ll be able to go one year if enough people to register. This affiliate link isn’t to make money)
Justin’s blog – Crisis communications
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Hi.
We as a church are working on a policy relating to the use of social media and really struggling with meeting the requirements of privacy, ensuring the safety of our young and the vulnerable, but living in the real world!
Have you any wisdom or suggestions to help us make a policy that is meaningful and can work?
We are also working on a new website and so really appreciate all your wisdom and experience that you are sharing on your website. Thank you.
God bless you,
Jill
Hi Jill, you definitely need permission to take photos of young people online. I have a photo release template that you can use as a guide.
We don’t as a rule take photos for our social media feeds of young people, especially children.
Thanks for the feedback Steve. We have a policy of not taking photos to include on social media – but struggle with young people in youth group following that policy, as well as mothers at playgroups etc. It seems we can “police” the team leaders, just not the participants. And there is a large part of us that wonders if we should. Any advice on how to deal with that?
If you can share a photo release template that would be much appreciated.
Jill