In no particular order:
- Share Jesus
- Make observations
- Question things you don’t understand
- State your position
- Blog
- Challenge the status quo
- Present alternate views
- Offer your perspective
- Provide commentary and share insights
- Grapple with and unpack complex issues
- React to what you’ve seen, read, or heard
- Challenge opposing positions
- Ponder big ideas
- Give props to people or organizations
- Launch an initiative
- Specify details
- Resolve problems
- Vlog
- Offer solutions
- Inspire spiritual growth
- Compile resources
- Leave comments to stimulate conversation
- Invite action
- Give tech support
- Share videos you like
- Highlight injustice
- Rally support
- Unveil research findings
- Encourage others
- Motivate your readers
- Create healthy tension
- Share your journey
- Question “the system”
- Demo products
- Highlight respectable people, efforts, or organizations
- Cultivate relationships
- Debate your position
- Pray for others
- Unpack big ideas
- Share needs
- Help people connect
- Give away schwag
- Critique products
- Review books and resources
- Offer advice
- Provide technical expertise
- Collaborate with others
- Foster fresh ideas
- Show off your work
- Engage social media
Remember, when you hit buttons like “share, submit, or send” online, you are actually leaving a digital breadcrumb. Search engines then aggregate those breadcrumbs into search results. Those search results represent your digital footprint.
Bottom Line: Every single thing you do online (when you leave digital data) incrementally advances your ministry and expands your digital footprint.
So view your online activities as another ministry channel and pour yourself into others. Along the way, your platform will grow.
What did I leave off the list? How do you use the Internet to give to others and expand your footprint?
