Top Tools Every Catholic Church Needs for Their Social Media
You spend valuable time on your parish’s social media presence, so, naturally, you want to use the best tools for the job! Whether you're aiming to enhance engagement, streamline content creation, or amplify your impact, the following resources will equip you. Let's dive in.
- WeCreate:
This online subscription is an incredibly valuable resource for parish social media managers! WeCreate is filled with thousands of Catholic graphics, photos, written pieces, and other content that is perfect for use in your parish’s social media efforts. New material is constantly being updated every month to keep up with the liturgical calendar and parishes’ seasonal needs. Find graphics for everything from liturgical celebrations, faith formation, event needs, announcements, Catholic education, and more. There is even a template feature so that you can put your own information inside professionally designed graphics and fully customize content to your parish’s unique needs.
WeCreate is free for churches who print their bulletins with LPi but there is also a stand-alone subscription. In addition, the WeCreate team curates and shares an assortment of practical liturgical graphics each month, completely free of charge to give parishes a try-before-you-buy option to test out WeCreate. Find this free, monthly WeCreate content on the LPi Free Catholic Art page.
- LPi’s Social Media Calendar: Speaking of WeCreate, with access to this digital library you get a
curated monthly social media calendar. This calendar, designed specifically for Catholic churches, has an entire month’s worth of content suggestions (both an image and a caption) laid out in an easy-to-navigate visual calendar format. Parishes can simply download the images and/or captions to use as their own social media content directly from the resource! Check out the image below to see how it works. Get access to this spectacular resource with a
WeCreate subscription.
- Buffer
Buffer is a one-stop-shop social media management platform that parish staff can use for all of their social media scheduling, publishing, campaigns, and even engagement. Imagine being able to do all of that for your church’s Instagram, Facebook, X (Twitter) and more all from one centralized website —That’s what Buffer is for!
In short, that means you can create one post and Buffer will post it to all of your different social media profiles for you instead of you having to spend lots of time logging into and creating a post for each profile individually. Buffer also collects all private messages and comments into one place so that parish social media managers can engage seamlessly with their community all from a single application.
Their easy-to-use platform offers a FREE plan and three options for paid plans. Learn more about Buffer on their website.
- Linktree
Linktree enables you to design a personalized link page. A link page is a webpage where you can gather and organize essential links that you want to share with your followers. It's a versatile solution for managing link shares on social media platforms like Instagram, who don’t allow links to be live and clickable inside post captions.
Parishes can easily set up their link page through a free Linktree subscription, then simply post one single link in their Instagram profile which directs visitors to all of the other links you want to make available. With Linktree, all you’ll have to do to share important navigational information is say “link in bio” and your followers will have everything organized right there!
Bonus, they even have
templates ready for parish social media managers to customize, with designs that speak to parish specific needs!
By incorporating these tools into your social media strategy, you're not only optimizing your workflow but also amplifying the impact of your ministry. Embrace these tools, experiment with their features, and watch as your social media outreach flourishes!
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