Anthony Coppedge, whom many of you had the chance to meet and talk to at #dirt09...has given us quite a rare opportunity.  His e-book, The Reason Your Church Must Twitter, is available for free download for the next 48 hours (just expired) for those of you who attended the Dirt Conference.  If you spent time in the Social Networking 101 or 201 classes (and there's no use faking it...we know who you are) then you know how valuable Twitter can be to help you stay connected to the people in your church or organization.  Here's a short description from his website :

This E-Book is about Twitter, a social networking tool that combines the ease of cell phone text messaging with the power of email. The purpose of this book is not to give you one more thing to learn or manage. Rather, the purpose is to provide churches with a *helpful, easy* and *practical guide* to reaching the right people with the right message - for free.

Twitter’s tag line is “What are you doing?” This question is answered, literally, by millions of users throughout the day, every day. Churches can easily provide timely, helpful information and resources to their communities; from small groups to volunteer leaders to ministry participants, Twitter is a very straightforward tool that even the non-technical people in your church can start using in literally a matter of minutes, right from their cell phones.

If you've got people in your church who could use a crash course on the why's of Twitter...then this is the book for them.  It's not expensive and a must for your crew and the people they're leading.

Check out the e-book here.