Communication tools are evolving very quickly. As a community-based organization, a synagogue has a great stake in communicating with its members and having its members communicate with each other. While most synagogues now have a list serve or two, should they be using Social Media tools to meet people's new habits and communication desires? On one foot, the answer is "Yes, but..." There are many mine fields and learning curves to be negotiated – come to the call and learn more.

Links for session:

1. LA Jewish Community Calendar
2. LA Bureau of Jewish Education Outreach to Young families
3. Bnai Jeshurun's Twitter
4. Torah Tweets web site

Background links:

• Facebook Group or Page
• Personal Strategy for Using Facebook
• Tweeting Torah

If you want to "subscribe" to this list of background links via RSS, I'm tagging these links with "pearlsocialmedia" at delicious.com. You can Get those items via a feed. Why should it be just me? If you want to add a link to the list of relevant sites that shows up in the Delicious feed and you have a Delicious account, just tag those links with "pearlsocialmedia."

You can listen to a recording of this call by clicking here: http://jrf.org/node/2604