Twitter With Purpose

  Got Twitter?  You've got 140 characters to tell your followers and the Twitter community whatever you want whenever you want.  Tweeple fill this stream with links loads of mundane information about their day, pushing products, showing pics of celebrity sightings, commenting about Lebron James, and scooping the latest news about to hit People magazine.

It's also a phenominal way we can "be" the church 24/7.  In 140 characters we can:

• Encourage a friend who just got bad news
• Help someone with a nugget of financial advice we've learned over the years
• Answer questions people are asking about scores of subjects
• Connect people to others that may be able to help them
• Share a blog post relevant to someone's life
• Meet someone new and care and comment about their posts
• Repost a favorite one liner from a speaker you found to be helpful
• Post an open job position for the scores of people out of work
• Help spread the word of a local charity having a cool event
• Engage and comment with scores of people to simply let them know you're listening
• Give and help spread the word to a crisis like the Haiti earthquake disasters
• Let someone know they're funny

And... any other creative way you can think of to encourage people without being preachy and shoving unsolicited advice on people...   We all have a purpose and sometimes it's only 140 characters away!  This too is online church...

Here was a simple blog post I found to be cool by Elaine  discovering a purpose in her daily life.

I'd love to hear your tweets, you can find me here on Twitter.