Ways to Use PINTEREST in Your Workplace (or Corps)
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Employee Activities
Cultural Awareness Week
BEYOND: Crossing Boundaries. Extending Borders. Embracing Others.
Ways to Use PINTEREST in Your Workplace (or Corps)
EXCERPT FROM 10 WAYS YOUR CHURCH CAN USE PINTEREST BY JONATHAN D. BLUNDELL
– MARCH 11, 2012 POSTED IN: DIGIDISCIPLE
Pinterest is a tool for collecting and organizing things you love
in a visual manner. It’s called “Pinterest” because people “pin”
or post images and quotes around an idea that they find
interesting. On-line, it is easily identified by its photo-sharing,
quotes, videos — you name it! It can be a way to get new
ideas flowing, to share information, to get conversation
started, to plan events, to create new initiatives. It’s about
“discovering” the ideas and sharing them. And its been gaining
popularity in many different settings, among them churches,
workplaces, organizations, and schools.
Pinterest Activity:
Locate a bulletin board in your work environment (or corps) where you and your
coworkers can “PIN” ideas around the Cultural Awareness 2015 theme: BEYOND:
Crossing Boundaries. Extending Borders. Embracing Others (or another theme such as
“Extending Hospitality” from the perspective of your department. Or, “How to Build
Bridges Across Differences.” Or “Outreach” ideas., etc.)
Pin it (or post them) in a creative way. You’ll find that the quotes, pictures, ideas that
you share will stir the thoughts and the creativity of others. Your board can be a place
for inspiration and it can be a tool for problem solving!
WAYS TO USE PINTEREST
Bring creative thinking to a theme. Look at the
Cultural Awareness Week theme. What comes to
your mind when you think of “Crossing
Boundaries?” “What is Culture?” “How-To Extend
Hospitality” from the perspective of your
department. Or, “How to Build Bridges Across
Differences.” Or “Outreach” ideas. Ways to
Celebrate Diversity. Etc. Staff recommended books, music, movies, recipes and more. Find out what your staff is reading, watching and eating and then share it with your community. Share behind the scenes photos. Help personalize your Pinterest boards and give props to your staff by sharing photos of your staff “behind the scenes.” Maybe it’s the band warming up on Sunday morning, or a sneak peak at the team who brews the morning coffee, or someone who reaches out to others. Whoever it is, find unique ways to highlight their hard work. Highlight the local community. Find and follow folks in your local community on Pinterest and share what they’re up to. Share local events, highlight local restaurants, show-off local art and help encourage your audience to take pride in their community. User submitted artwork. Encourage your community to share their own artwork based on the weekly message or current sermon series. Repin and highlight all their great work. Desktop/mobile wallpapers. Use graphics from key projects, a sermon series or other community related events and create wallpapers for both desktop and mobile devices. The wallpapers can encourage your community to continue thinking on the key ideas you’ve presented each week. Share videos. While Pinterest remains predominately a still-image based website, videos are slowly making their way onto the site. You can pin videos from YouTube just like any image. Use the video option for sharing promotional videos for events, or clips from weekly sermons, or even testimonials of how God is working in the midst of your community. Weekly events. How do remind your people of important events? For churches, its often the bulletin, which is becoming a thing of the past in many communities and people can easily tune out during long winded announcements. Or there’s the newsletter and important events may get pushed to the bottom of the pile. But, with a little creativity, you can easily remind your community of upcoming events (or an upcoming sermon series) with a great visual. And as always encourage them to share that information within their own spheres of influence. Self-improvement. How-to articles are HUGE on Pinterest. Use Pinterest to share articles your team has read (or written) to promote team work, cultural competence, best practices in your department, etc., etc. Create different boards for different areas of ministry so users have the option to follow only those areas of interest. For bonus points – don’t be afraid to share articles written by other organizations or those outside your circle.
Words to live by. Whether folks call it “quotes,” “deep thoughts,” “challenging ideas,” or “play on words,” visuals with inspiring quotes are pretty hot on Pinterest. If a picture is worth a 1000 words then a picture with words on top of it must be worth… ah, never mind. Whether you use the ideas of those who are “great thinkers,” key points from a sermon, verses or favorite quotes, you can continue spreading your message with “quotes of the week.” Share stories. Stories make us tick. Stories give us a way to relate to one another. Stories matter. Whether you’re sharing a video, sharing a blog post, or sharing a link to an audio podcast, always share stories that matter to your community. Continue to tell your story and the story of those in your community (no matter what network you’re on). Excerpted from http://bigbible.org.uk/2012/03/10-ways-your-church-can-use-pinterest/. Retrieved 19-June-14.
Immigrant Stories Cultural Awareness Week BEYOND: Crossing Boundaries. Extending Borders. Embracing Others. Panel Discussion Invite 3-4 individuals to sit on a panel who have left their country to live in the U.S. Have them share what life was like in their homeland, how that is different today, and their personal experience in the U.S. Encourage those who attend the panel to ask the presenters questions and to share with them the part of their heritage they would like others to know about. The Stranger: A Film by the Evangelical Immigration Table “The Stranger” is a 40-minute documentary film commissioned by the Evangelical Immigration Table and produced by Emmy-award winning producer Linda Midgett. The Stranger profiles three immigrant stories and includes interviews with local and national Christian leaders. By highlighting biblical teaching related to immigrants, sharing compelling stories of immigrants who are also evangelical Christians, and addressing some common economic and political misconceptions, The Stranger seeks to mobilize evangelical Christians to respond to immigrants and to immigration policy in ways that are consistent with biblical principles. From http://vimeo.com/97163476. Retrieved July 1, 2014. *The movie can be downloaded from this site.
Viewing Show The Stranger. Follow with discussion using Screening and Discussion Guide. http://www.thestrangerfilm.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/The-Stranger-Screening- and-Discussion-Guide-.pdf
Wordle Cultural Awareness Week 2015 BEYOND: Crossing Boundaries. Extending Borders. Embracing Others Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. A Wordle can be an inspirational reminder of a topic, theme, person or a group. Go to http://www.wordle.net/ to see examples of what you can do and to create your wordle. Wordle Activities: Locate a bulletin board in your work environment (or corps) where you and your coworkers can post your wordle images. You can create a wordle around the following: +Crossing Boundaries: Who are the people around us? People cross boundaries for many different reasons. Think about news reports you’ve heard on radio, seen on television, or read on the internet about people crossing boundaries. Who are they? Where are they coming from? What challenges are they facing? Create a wordle that identifies these people groups and add brief prayers for them. Literally, what boundaries have they crossed – national or international? What places are stamped on their passports? Create a wordle that includes places your staff has travelled. +Embracing others Create a department wordle. Things to include may be names, places of birth or countries of origin, favorite things, special interests, languages spoken, job tasks, etc. Include things that make your department unique. +Extending Borders: How do we extend hospitality? Create a wordle that identifies your department name and includes ways that people show hospitality to others. Describe the ways we “make space at the table” for those
who are at the margins? In what ways do we go “Beyond” the call of duty in order to be helpful to others?
Pay It Forward Cultural Awareness Week 2015 BEYOND: Crossing Boundaries. Extending Borders. Embracing Others Pay it Forward is an opportunity to enhance the idea of giving by doing a good deed for someone and expecting nothing in return. Instead, the receiver is encouraged to “Pay it Forward.” Decide on a day or a week that will be your Pay It Forward Day / Week. You can do this activity alone or with friends. If with friends, consider brainstorming ideas of things to do. Having a “Pay It Forward” card handy can be a great reminder to those who received the good deed to pay it forward. There are 30 ideas here to use or to get you started thinking up your own! Here’s a synopsis of the 2000 movie, Pay It Forward based on a true story: When eleven and a half year old Trevor McKinney (Haley Joel Osment) begins seventh grade in Las Vegas, Nevada, his social studies teacher Eugene Simonet (Kevin Spacey) gives the class an assignment to devise and put into action a plan that will change the world for the better. Trevor's plan is a charitable program based on the networking of good deeds. He calls his plan "Pay It Forward", which means the recipient of a favor does a favor for three others rather than paying the favor back. However, it needs to be a major favor that the receiver can't complete themselves. Trevor does a favor for three people, asking each of them to "pay the favor forward" by doing favors for three other people, and so on, along a branching tree of good deeds. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_It_Forward_(film) 19-June-14.
30 Ways to Pay It Forward
Idea starters
“Selflessness is the sincere concern for the wellbeing of others. It’s about love. It’s
about compassion. It’s about kindness and faith. It’s about making a difference in the
world. Sure, you are only one, but you are one. You cannot do everything, but you can
do something. Smile and enjoy the fact that you have the ability to make a difference –
one you’ll likely remember forever.”
1. Hold the door open for the person behind you.
2. Introduce yourself. Make new colleagues, classmates, etc. feel welcome.
3. Write a positive Yelp review about a local business you like.
4. Inspire others online.
5. Share your umbrella with a stranger on a rainy day.
6. Check up on someone who looks
lonely.
7. Let someone with only a few items
cut you in line at the grocery store.
8. Spread good news.
9. Replace what you’ve used. For
example, fill up the copier or printer
with paper after you’re done using it
or start a fresh batch of coffee.
10. Give words of encouragement to
someone about their dreams, no
matter how big or small they are.
11. Encourage co-workers to share their
dreams and encourage them!
12. Shovel the snow for your neighbor or
that of a senior neighbor.
13. Help someone get your parking space in a crowded parking lot when you’re
leaving.
14. Help someone get active. There’s a coworker or acquaintance in your life who
wants to get healthy, but needs a helping hand. Offer to go walking or running
together or join a gym together.
15. Make a difference in the life of a child. Give them your time and undivided
attention. Read Raising Kids Who Will Make a Difference.
16. Pay for the person in line behind you.
17. Drop off your old eye glasses at your local LensCrafters or give to a Lions Club
member as a donation to the OneSight program.18. Help the weary shopper in front of you who needs that extra two or three cents to
avoid breaking a 20-dollar bill.
19. Be a courteous driver. Let people merge in front of you. Wave and even smile!
20. Offer your seat to someone when there aren’t any left.
21. Bake cookies or brownies or bring fresh fruit to share with a neighbor or
colleagues.
22. If you have a good book you’ve read that’s just sitting around on a book shelf,
give it away to a friend.
23. Send a nice handwritten card to someone you know, unexpectedly.
24. Leave encouraging post-it notes in library books and other random places.
25. If you see a couple taking a self-pic, offer to take the picture for them.
26. Donate cat and dog food to an animal shelter. Call and ask what is needed.
27. Collect and donate prom dresses for underprivileged youth.
28. Stand up for someone. Lend your voice. Often the powerless, the homeless, the
neglected in our world need someone to speak up for them.
29. Return someone’s shopping cart to the cart corral for them.
30. When someone wants to repay you for something, ask them to pay it forward.
And there are more! Ideas retrieved from
http://www.marcandangel.com/2012/05/25/60-selfless-ways-to-pay-it-forward/
Retrieved 19-June-14
PINTEREST on Paying It Forward
http://www.pinterest.com/parkrapids7/pay-it-forward/ Retrieved 19-June-14Diversity 88 Ways Want to explore diversity throughout the year? Here’s a resource with a variety of ideas. Go to www.sbhihelp.org/files/Diversity88Ways.pdf
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