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Make That Next Email Into A Blog Post

November 6, 2009
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I’m all about keeping my inbox at zero these days. Here’s the post I read that inspired me.
Since creating content can be the biggest challenge for entry level and mid-range bloggers, I wanted to encourage you to use emails that you either send or are sent to you as fodder for blog posts.
Here are [...]

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Claiming New Ground: Marching Into the Blog World

November 2, 2009
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Ok, I admit it: I’ve been in blog world for only six months, which undoubtedly puts me in the minority within the Campus Ministry. But even though I’m a newbie, I think I’ve learned a few lessons along the way that may help the remaining four of us tip-toe into the [...]

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Super-Site Me! Praise for CCC Canada’s Blogging Efforts

October 27, 2009
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I had the opportunity to interact with many CCC staff doing some serious work online for Jesus this past week at MinistryNet in Antalya, Turkey.
One of my most encouraging appointments came when I sat down with Karen & Doris (follow them on Twitter), who head up CCC Canada’s (Power to Change) online efforts.
The reasons?

They have [...]

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Using a Ministry Blog to Get Found

October 8, 2009
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Regardless of length every blog post is an individual web page within your domain.
If you examine ministry websites from the 1.0 era, they average 1-3 TOTAL pages, and those pages took a tremendous amount of time to create.
Although you may lose some of the design aesthetics in switching from your current site to a blog [...]

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Blogging 201–Write a Post with Keywords in Mind

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There are literally millions of blogs. How does you connect your content with interested, searching readers?
A great intermediate step in formatting content for a blog is engaging parts of the SEO (search engine optimization) process.
Try this on your next post:

Think of a topic that you’re passionate about.
Go to Google and type in the phrase or [...]

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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 new, [...]

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My Perfect Post…

September 22, 2009
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I enjoyed seeing on my personal blog what I wish for every post of mine. In fact I would call it “the perfect post.” (imho of course).
These elements made the post succesful:

The post STARTED in the middle of my thought process: I was not shouting (okay a little bit) nor getting the last word in [...]

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