Archive for Blogging Tips
Will You Twitter Your Church or Ministry?
Posted by: | CommentsTwitter is an awesome tool!
It allows us to communicate in a way that is totally different from traditional websites, blogs, and e-mails. You can tie in Twitter with your FaceBook account, send voice mesages to Twitter using your phone, TwitPic your photos, and even synch it with your Google iCalendar. The applications are many and you should consider using it for your church or ministry.
Anthony Coppedge (whom I’d love to meet and have missed at a few conferences) launched a website called Twitter for Churches (www.twitterforchurches.com) and offers a PDF book called “The Reason Your Church MUST Twitter” for only $5.00! Having read Anthony’s posts in the past, I think this is going to be a great read and recommend checking out his new website.
Twitter could help your ministry to communicate more efficiently or carry on conversations with people in your community. Don’t miss the boat.
ProBlogger Darren Rowse Interviewed by Tim Challies
Posted by: | CommentsOne of the biggest and most read blogs on the blogsophere is Darren Rowse’s ProBlogger.net. I learned quite a bit from reading ProBlogger in the early days of starting this blog. (In fact, he was one of the first people I interviewed in my Blogging 101 for Pastors series.)
And he continues to be a huge influence for more and more fledgling bloggers as well as experienced ones.
Anyway, one of the biggest and most influential Christian Bloggers, Tim Challies, just interviewed Darren, who also happens to be a Christian minister in Australia.
My PrimeTime America Radio Interivew on Blogging 101 for Pastors
Posted by: | CommentsPaul Butler of the Moody Broadcasting Network’s PrimeTime America radio show recently interviewed me for a segment that aired yesterday about blogging for ministry.
Here’s the MP3 Audio of the 7 minute segment (3mb file) that includes an interview with Pastor Ron Daulphin and myself.
Facing Off with Brian Gardner
Posted by: | CommentsDaniel of Daily Blog Tips invited me to face off with my friend and fellow WordPress designer Brian Gardner.
One Rockin Site Map Generator WordPress Plugin for Your Blog
Posted by: | CommentsCheck out this rockin plugin for your WordPress-driven blog or church website called Really Simple Site Map.It lists every post and page you’ve ever published and a solution to a more polish sitemap than the Google Sitemap Generator plugin (which still rocks).
See how it works by looking at my site map — and every post I’ve blogged about here.
I get dizzy looking at it … lots of sleepless nights!
[Found via Weblog Tools Collection]
Update: Lorelle of the famous and insanely useful Lorelle on WordPress blog stopped by to correct some things about this post. She gave me an education … and I’m just honored she stopped by! Here’s what she said in the comments that I don’t want you to miss:
Just a little clarification is needed here. There is a LOT of confusion between the terms “sitemap” and “site map”.
A “site map” is a listing of your blog posts on your blog, like a table of contents. This is what the poorly named “Really Simple Sitemap” does. It should be “Really Simple Site Map”.
A “sitemap” is a hidden XML file that is read by Google, Yahoo, and other search engines as a guide to all your blog posts. It isn’t “readable” by humans since it is inside a bunch of code. That’s what the Google Sitemap Plugin does. That’s correctly named.
You might want to fix your post to correctly label what does what. You offer such great information, I’d hate to see this confusion be perpetuated.
Thanks and keep up the great work.
