Here is a good article on blogging from the Washington Post, by Dan Zak. It contains some good advise for those starting out and even for bloggers who have been around for a while. Read the entire article if you want you blog to reach a greater audience. The main points in the article are elementary but useful and profound.
-Worship on The Web
There is an interesting article in the Washington Post about Worship on the Web. It starts out talking about how religion in general has become an important part of the web experience. Here is a short quote:
” “The first wave of religion online, in the 1990s, was mainly for nerds and young people and techies,” said Morten Hojsgaard, a Danish author who has written extensively about online religion. “But now it really is a mirror of society at large. This is providing a new forum for religious seekers.”
-Increasing Visibility and Traffic to Your Blog
There are a number of things that you can do to increase the visibility of your ministry blog and the number of different people actually visiting your site. Are numbers all that important? Ask a Pastor if he or she would rather have a growing church or a stagnant one.
A lot depends upon the goals and reasons you started the blog in the first place.
-Why Blogging?: As an Additional Tool For Pastors
Why Blogging? Because God and his son Jesus Christ need equal time in the blogosphere.
Pastors have so little real time to influence their people and blogging can extend and increase the opportunity to share the Gospel and the Christian world view not only with their own congregation, but also with anyone else who happens to come across the site. Best of all, blogging can literally be done at anytime, and the time investment is minimal compared with the possible results.
-Private Blogs for Youth Ministries and Church Groups!
Blogs can be set up to reach only a private audience like Youth ministries and church groups. WordPress.com in particular allows for private sites for free. Groups can have there own calendar, communication, message, and feedback site. Passwords to enter as a reader/subscriber can be given to members only; while leaders maintain control over the site and its content.
-Re: Internet ‘Confessional’ Sites -A Potential for Ministry?
I had no idea that thousands of people every day were confessing their sins on the internet until I ran across it. Thousands apparently sense a lack and a need in their lives and are turning to the internet for answers and absolution?
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