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RSS: What Do Those Letters Even Mean?

September 1, 2009
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RSS (most commonly translated as “Really Simple Syndication” but sometimes “Rich Site Summary”) is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format.–Wikipedia When someone mentions ‘your feed’ or ‘my feed’ this is what they are talking about. By making your [...]

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Why Self-Hosted WordPress?

August 25, 2009
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I’ve tried them all, or just about. My first blog was hosted on Angelfire and was a text file that was eerily similar to a certain 14-year-old doctor. I was on LiveJournal, I had a Blogger/Blogspot account, I have a couple of 3-post of blogs still rotting on WordPress.com’s servers. I have settled on my [...]

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The TypePad Blog Upgrade Process

August 21, 2009
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Why Typepad? Why not WordPress or Blogger?

August 16, 2009
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I assume that you are blogging because you have something to SAY. Many photo & video blogs exist; however in ministry blogging text is extremely important. When I started blogging my biggest enemies were: time: it took a lot of it to write one post content: what do i want to say about what i [...]

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Ready, Aim, Fire: Why Picking an Audience and Message is Important

August 12, 2009
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What are you going to write about? Another post about how you think that Rob Bell’s glasses are too flashy? But this time from the angle that he can’t possibly be a real Christian because those black frames are  far more distracting than braided hair was to the Corinthians? One of the first things you [...]

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Why should we blog?

August 6, 2009
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The most common questions I get asked about Social Media always boil down to “Why?” As people engaged in bringing the Gospel to people in a way that they can really get it, should we blog? Won’t it distract us? Won’t it eat up all of our time? Can it possibly help with the winning, [...]

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