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CRU Blogging Webinar Coming! Sign Up!

September 25, 2009

CRU Blogging is hosting a 30 minute webinar to help ministries understand the value in switching over to a blog for the main ministry website. We hope to share some vision, explain some tactics, and answer your specific questions. I’ve noticed that a lot of ministries have outdated websites, and would like to try something [...]

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How to install WordPress [video]

September 23, 2009

How do I start? I saw this question last week (essentially), so I did this video. It’ll be a series of basic instructional videos on how to use WordPress. One thing that I forgot to say in the video. You should check out the readme.html file in the WordPress directory after you unzip the folder.

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Skills You Need To Learn

September 14, 2009
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When you’re taking up a new role in your life or your job there are always things that you need to learn how to do. The same is true with blogging in ministry. Here are some skills that you’ll need to learn, some for every blogger and some just for self-hosted bloggers. First, you need [...]

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Why Tumblr?

September 11, 2009

Jayson:Tumblr calls itself “the easiest way to blog.” They may just be right. Ben Meredith shares why he chooses this platform. From their site: Tumblr lets you effortlessly share anything. Post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos, from your browser, phone, desktop, email, or wherever you happen to be. You can customize everything, from [...]

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Inserting Space Between Images & Text

September 9, 2009
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Get Your Content Out There – Feeds

September 7, 2009
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Brian just posted something the other day about RSS, and why it’s good. Let’s take a step back, what is a feed? Think of it this way, back in 2001 when you wanted to see if your favorite pages had updated you’d have to go to each one of them to check. For the most [...]

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Self-Hosted. Where do I start? – Finding a Web Host

September 3, 2009
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One of the most confusing and frustrating parts of finding a web host is not knowing what to look for. Brian and I have decided to take a look at the hosts that we use and go through the benefits of both options. Also, I’ll share an option that is available to people who are [...]

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