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Preventing content over(or under)load- Using the queue.

September 16, 2009
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Brian shared about the key to starting out in blogging being a steady drip. That’s so true. The problem is that most of my creative juices flow less like a leaky faucet and more like Old Faithful. When any of it comes, all of it comes. Then it’s dry again for a time. Unlike Old [...]

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Let it Rain…No Let It Drip!

August 28, 2009
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New bloggers make the mistake of approaching posts as they would a college paper. Often times that approach leads to a blogging stalemate, and increased pressure to blog, both of which keep a steady flow of posts peppering your site. Blogging Tip: Focus on writing three paragraph blog posts full of links and/or media (pictures, [...]

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“God changed my life, and it all started in a bathtub.” – Engaging Your Audience

August 24, 2009
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That’s the way a friend of mine starts his faith story when sharing it with a student.  It’s the type of opening line that makes you want to hear the rest of the story, am I right? In blogging, the number one thing you want is for people to actually engage with your content.  So [...]

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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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To Ping or Not to Ping

August 10, 2009

most blogging platforms automatically ‘ping’ or notify search engines of new content that you post automatically. however, it’s still helpful to add an additional number of sites to ping after each post. when your blog pings search engines, they ‘crawl’ your website for content, which increases the chances of your post being found by someone. [...]

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Tweet for Texture

August 5, 2009
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have you added your twitter updates to your blog because everyone else has? when I started blogging I certainly tried to copy other bloggers that I respected. but why is adding twitter to your blog important? TEXTURE a blog post provides a glimpse into your head and heart a tweet provides a glimpse into your [...]

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You Talk Too Much…and you never shut up

August 2, 2009
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the last thing you want a new reader of your blog to do when visiting your site is to roll their eyes at the volume of text on your post. the average time someone spends on my site is one minute and thirty-three seconds (if you do not have google analytics, it can really help [...]

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