My wife sent me this picture today. One must always remember to balance ministry and time on the internet with family or this could happen to you:
Showing posts with label Blogging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blogging. Show all posts
-New Year: A Good Time to Evaluate Your Blog or Website
The new year is a good time to evaluate your blog or website. An excellent time to evaluate exactly what you are currently doing and how it measures up with your original vision. Or better yet, is the original vision that got you started blogging in the first place still valid or does it need to be adjusted or changed in any way?
One of the most effective ways to judge what you’re really doing is to take a hard look at how you’re really spending your time.
-Responding in Love to Difficult Comments
Well sometimes comments can actually ruin your whole day. One of the hardest things to do as a Christian blogger is to respond in love to those who criticize and are down right mean and ornery to you in their comments.
-10 Online Behaviors That Christians Should Avoid
Here’s a good article from Church Mag listing 10 different behaviors that Christians should avoid if they want to maintain a good reputation and continue to be positive ambassadors for Christ:
-Backing Up Your Blog or Website
I have learned the hard way how important it is to backup your blog or website or even your computer for that matter.
What if tomorrow your blog or hosted website files were hacked into and were changed or destroyed, what would you do? Or worse yet- what if your host went belly up and no longer existed flushing all of your blogging files (it has happened)?
-After 15+ Years of Blogging: Here’s What I’ve learned
After over 15 years on the internet blogging and publishing religious websites I have learned a lot and I have observed many different trends and changes. I have also seen many good blogs and bloggers come and go.
Many started blogging in 2005 and 2006 because their friends did and it became the popular thing to do. It was a golden time when 1000’s of new blogs came into existence every hour of everyday. Some of my favorites and even some of the best blogs of that era no longer exist.
-Copyright Facts for Bloggers
One of the strangest facts for a new blogger to fully comprehend and accept is that when one writes a blog article it is actually copyrighted and its use is subject to the writer.
There is a great blending and sharing of stuff through social networking sites and through private emails that many times totally disregard copyright propriety.
-What to Do About Your Website When You’re on Vacation
Disconnecting from the internet and blogging is actually a very good thing to do every once in a while—especially vacations.
Also, once in a while I will take a necessary weekend off from it all just to relax and get the creative juices flowing again. This is really important—to be in it for the long haul you must learn to disconnect once in a while no matter how 'painful' LOL. Vacations are not only beneficial for your off-line work but for your on-line longevity also.
-What About the ‘About’ Page?
ABOUT? WHO ARE YOU?
It is a mere afterthought on so many blog and websites yet the ‘About’ page is the second most viewed page on every site. Not only that but also the second destination of nearly every new visitor that comes aboard.
-Court: A Right to Bully and be Mean Online
Here’s an interesting internet case. An 8th grade student was suspended from school for “cyber-bullying” and humiliating another student online in a YouTube video. Her parents took the school to court and last month a federal judge in Los Angeles ruled that the school had gone too far. Students do have a 1st Amendment right to be nasty in cyberspace. Implications for internet ministry:
-5 Common Grammatical Mistakes That Make You Look Dumb!
Here’s a helpful guide to some common mistakes that I make every once in a while and you probably do to. Written by Brian Clark of Copyblogger: “Five Grammatical Errors that Make You Look Dumb”
He lists five mistakes to avoid when blogging and writing web copy:
1. Your vs. You’re
2. It’s vs. Its
3. There vs. Their
4. Affect vs. Effect
5. The Dangling Participle
Read what he has to say about these common errors. I have broken them all at one time or another. Very helpful!
-10 Commandments for Bloggers
The following 10 commandments came from a conference of Godblogs in the Uk held by the Evangelical Alliance. The gathering of Christian bloggers gave the conferees an opportunity to network and think through a Christian approach to blogging.
The ten cyberspace commandments:
-You shall not put your blog before your integrity.
-You shall not make an idol of your blog.
-“10 Things Your Blog Doesn’t Need”
From DailyBlogTips– by Donny: “10 Things Your Blog Doesn’t Need”
1. Auto-Music
2. Animated Gifs
3. Tiny Type
-Some Thoughts on Blogging Etiquette
I believe that when it comes to integrity, Christians on the internet should be above reproach and demonstrate truth and grace in everything that we do.
When I started blogging I couldn’t even spell ‘etiquette’ much less practice it on my new blog but I did try to learn the best procedures by observing the best. Along the way I naturally picked up some important do’s and don’ts—a lot by just experiencing stuff that I didn’t like others doing to me.
-Learning to Take Criticism Well
I started thinking about some of my experiences over the years when it comes to negative comments and criticisms made on my blogs. Particularly those made when I first started blogging 17 years ago:
-Blogs: Evaluate Where You Spend Your Time?
In bouncing off several suggestions I found on other sites about blogging, I began to evaluate where I was spending most of my time—was it really in posting and communicating a desired message or in the usual blogging chores of updating, responding to comments, flushing spam, checking stats, reading and commenting on other blogs, and etc.
Pastors and ministers, who already have a busy schedule, must make the time they take on blogging and the Internet an 'effective' part of their over-all ministry.
-You Have My Permission to Change a Published Post
Now for One of my Major 'Editing' Tips: –
When are you done with a post? Some contend that once it is posted that’s it! It is left to revolve around the blogosphere as it is forever. I disagree; for me, editing never ends:
-Why Pastors Should Blog
Here's a good article on why Pastors should blog:
"6 Reasons Pastors Should Blog" by Abraham Piper @ Desiring God (John Piper’s website)
Abraham starts off with his own reason behind the article:
"In this article I want to convince as many pastors as possible to sit down and start a blog today. If I can’t convince them, then I want to convince churchgoers to hound their pastor until he does."
Abraham then lists 6 important reasons that pastors should blog.
-Teach a Bible Study? Set Up a Blog!
I have posted previously on the 'whys' and reasons for setting up a Bible Study blog.Here are some more reasons for those teaching a Bible study.
Actually, I believe that anyone teaching a Bible study should seriously consider posting the notes or lessons on the Internet.
-One Simple Blogging Rule
There’s a great article posted at Daily Blog Tips: "One Simple Blogging Rule to Keep You Out of Trouble". The ‘one simple rule’ and the major point made by the writer is this:
Never post anything you wouldn’t say in person.
I believe that this is really good counsel for those of us who are trying to represent Christ in the Blogoshere. So many times I run across blog articles and comments which are uncharitable, divisive, insulting, and sometimes down right mean–and these are Christian blogs that I’m taking about. You expect to find such behavior in partisan political sites, but you really do hope for better treatment among brothers and sisters in Christ.
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