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.

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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.

Read the interview here

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Here’s the MP3 Audio of the 7 minute segment (3mb file) that includes an interview with Pastor Ron Daulphin and myself.

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Check out our answers ….

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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.

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Rule 1 – “Don’t ever write something you wouldn’t want your mother to read.”
Rule 2 – “Opinions are like … bellybuttons … everyone has one.”
Rule 3 – “Don’t throw gasoline on a fire.”
Rule 4 — “Beware of Trolls, learn to love Lurkers.”

Read the full post here, including his commentary on these rules.

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And some of you should do the same!

To boil down his policy, it goes like this: “I will take down whatever comments and not accept whatever trackbacks I want. Period.”

Blogging purists and idealists will say “Don’t control the conversation.”

But the conversation costs … in time and energy and money. And bloggers are the ones giving 99% of that!

[Found via ProBlogger]

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Giving her advice to fellow bloggers, she said: “Breathe. Know that the Internet has no eraser.”

I nominate it for the best blogging advice of the year … and it’ll probably not be unseated for me all year long.

As she appropriately continues in her quote, “Your children, your grandchildren, your future spouse, your future boss, and your future enemy will see what you write eventually.”

Watch what you say. Even though the web is “virtual,” it’s really not. It’s quite permanent. The web has a memory. It gets indexed in search engines, your stuff gets posted on other sites and blogs … and people will find it.

Good advice, great advice, actually, for Christ-followers seeking to make a difference by using blogs … Thanks, Liz!

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For active commenters on your posts, this is a great way to help your readers keep up with the conversation, including comments you make to theirs.

It’s a simple plug and play plugin.

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Rather than recreate the wheel (or tutorial), I thought I’d give you some links or “favicon generators”:

http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/
http://www.antifavicon.com/

OR … how to create a favicon in Photoshop.

Get some inspiration for your favicon also with this excellent list by Smashing Magazine.

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