Help us identify and retweet your UU climate march photos!

Want to get your photos into the climate march twitter feed, as well as retweeted by national UU Twitter accounts?  Here are two tips.

1. Tweet your photos and include one or more of  the following hashtags.

Hashtag for the march:  #ClimateMarch
Hashtag for faith contingent: #KeepersofFaith
Hashtag for our national UU climate justice  campaign: #Commit2Respond

Including these hashtags will insert them into the top twitter streams for this event.  People will see tweets with these hashtags even if they aren’t following you.


2.  Tag major UU accounts in your best UU climate photos

A great way to get great Unitarian Universalist climate photos retweeted by national UU accounts, including mine, is to tag our accounts in your Twitter photos.

When you add a photo to a tweet via the Twitter app, before you send it,  you can click a link below the photo to say who is in the photo.  You can tag up to ten users in photos this way.

I’ll be actively retweeting photos on Saturday so make sure to tag photos with @UUPLANET.  Also consider tagging your top pix with @commit2respond @UUMFE @UUA @UUSC @UUWorld.

In addition to tweeting your photos, make sure to add them to this national UU shared Google Photo album.

Below is a screenshot of my iphone with a photo being tagged.

Add Your UU Climate March Photos to Shared UU Album

Are you marching in the Peoples Climate March this weekend?  Share your photos of UUs in action via this national Unitarian Universalist shared Google Photo Album!

The UU Commit2Respond climate justice campaign which includes (UU Ministry for Earth, UUA, UUSC and other UU climate organizations and programs) is inviting people to share their photos from this weekends climate march and related activities via this shared Google Photo album:

bit.ly/UUSharePhotoApril2017.

To share photos, click URL above and join the album, then use the Google Photos app to share photos during the march via your smartphone!

If you can’t find the album in the Google Photo smartphone app, click “Albums” and then “Shared”.  If it’s not there, chances are you haven’t joined the album yet.  Join it via URL above and then it should show up.

If you don’t manage to share your pix during the march,  make sure to share them when you get home.

In addition to sharing via this album, if you are on Twitter, make sure to tweet your top photos! If you tag the tweet or photo with @UUPLANET  I’ll see it and will retweet your photo.

 

On the “Historical and Future Trajectories of Black Lives Matter and Unitarian Universalism”

Videos of the Spring 2017 Minns Lectures on “Historical and Future Trajectories of Black Lives Matter and Unitarian Universalism” are now available.

Lecture 1:   Friday, March 31
Presented by the Rev. Mark Morrison-Reed, Affiliated Member, Meadville-Lombard Theological School. The Rev. Mary Margaret Earl, Executive Director and Senior Minister at the Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministry (UUUM) acted as respondent. Lecture held at First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA

Lecture 2: Saturday, April 1
Presented by the Rev. Rosemary Bray McNatt, President, Professor of Unitarian Universalist Ministry and Heritage, Starr King School for the Ministry. DiDi Delgado, writer, activist, organizer, and freelance journalist, acted as respondent. Lecture held First Parish in Cambridge, 3 Church St., Cambridge, MA

Curious George PBS Seasons 1- 9 on Youtube

The Curious George Show Seasons 1- 9 are now available to rent on Youtube individually or with a season pass.  The children’s production team I work with produces all of the live action segments for Curious George.  For the production of these segments, I serve as educator, associate producer, art department, and awesome amplifier!

Attend the Inaugural UU TALKS event April 28th at UUA Headquarters

UUs speaking at TEDx Walden Pond

Friends,  the first ever UU Talks event is being held in Boston at UUA Headquarters on Friday, April 28th.

Get your tickets here!  The UUA chapel is not very large so we expect it to sell out.

UU Talks events are modeled after the popular TED Talk format, but in this case feature talks inspired by Unitarian Universalist values.

Tickets fund the media production and distribution online.  When you attend, you are making it possible for Unitarian Universalists (and friends) to share their ideas, stories, values and convictions with a wider online audience.

Congregations interested in hosting a UU Talks event should contact project founder and director, Twinkle Marie Manning, via her UU Talks website. 

Twinkle Marie Manning

A lot of people have been trying to contact me to get involved. Though I have been promoting the project, I am just a project advisor and consultant.  This is Twinkle’s project and she should receive all inquiries.

Speakers in the featured image at the top of this page are Unitarian Universalists offering talks at the TEDx Walden event which inspired this project.

Want to learn more about the project?  Twinkle and I joined the VUU to discuss UU Talks, the model, and how congregations can get involved.  You may also learn more via the UU Talks website and Facebook Page.

Celebrating 10 Year Anniversary of the “You’re a Uni-What?” Video

This coming UUA General Assembly conference is the 10 year anniversary of the “You’re a Uni-What?!” video.  You heard me.  Ten years…

The Rev. Amy Freedman and I filmed the interviews at General Assembly 2007. Our segments were filmed in our living room in front of a projector screen.

That was BEFORE social media. BEFORE smartphones.  And Youtube was just a baby….

What amazes me most is that despite the video’s age and lower resolution, people are still learning from it.

When I am guest preaching and meet first time visitors, they often ask, “Have we met? You look familiar.” And almost every time it is because the night before they were checking out UU videos on Youtube! I’ve come to deeply appreciate the potential of video to work for us online 24/7.

What might your congregation do with video? There are so many possibilities!

You can find a list of ideas on my video making tips page. Thanks to smartphones, you don’t need to hire a professional. You just need to make a commitment to experimenting with sharing your message.

Need help to get started with smartphone video production?  I offer smartphone video & social media training.

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