Facebook: I Like Arena

Facebook: 500 million users, decent API, social media at its best, and one of the fastest communications tools out there for allowing your Membership to quickly reach each other with information about your Ministry. So the first step in getting into that world is the ubiquitous "Like" button.

To implement this, you'll need to do two things. First, you'll need to register your "app" (Arena-powered website) with Facebook by logging in to your church's Facebook account (using your personal account makes it your app, not the organization's) and going to: http://developers.facebook.com/setup/.

Once you've registered your app and have your AppID, add an Advanced HTML Text module to any page of your site, and copy this code into it, replacing the 'YOUR APP ID HERE' with... you guessed it: your app id (but keep the single-quotes around the ID, they're important).

<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js" ></script>
<script>
window.fbAsyncInit = function () {
FB.init({ appId: 'YOUR APP ID HERE', status: true, cookie: true,xfbml: true});
};
(function () {
var e = document.createElement('script');
e.type = 'text/javascript';
e.src = document.location.protocol + '//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js';
e.async = true;
document.getElementById('fb-root').appendChild(e);
} ());
</script>
<fb:like layout="button_count" width="90"></fb:like>

And there's your Like button!
You can add this code directly to your template (or you might want to just add a specific content area to the template and add an Adv. HTML Text module to that content area in the Template inside Arena so you can manage security on it), since it intelligently "likes" the current dynamic URL (right down to the query string, so it can even "like" events or promotions).