Tag: blogging

Quote of the day

Jesus didn’t say, “I was in prison and you wrote a book for me, I was naked and you complained on your blog about the church’s failure to clothe me, I was sick and you raised money for your salaries using a picture of me,” and so on.

– Brian McLaren
HT: Duncan McFadzean

What should I blog about?

I hear people tell me all the time that they don’t know what they’d blog about.

Everyone has something interesting to say.

There are 1 million stories in the naked city every night – or so they say.

But the key is to write about what you’re passionate about.

I love doing a random check over at technorati or other sites to see what keywords pop up in my blog posts.

You can see right away what I write the most about and by reading my blog you can probably tell very easily what my passions are. I write about things I’m passionate about.

If you’re passionate about your pets, write about your pets. If you’re passionate about your job, write about your job. If you’re passionate about health care or politics or your church or your God, write about it.

ChurchCommunicationsPro has started a new series for pastors who need to be blogging.

It’s got some great pointers for “the rest of us” as well.

Some of the posts include:

  • How to Get Blogging in About Four Steps, Five Minutes [See below]
  • Why I Suggest Pastors Use Blogger.com
  • Blog Your Passsion, First and Foremost
  • 10 Topic Ideas for Blogging Pastors
  • Blogging as the Spiritual Discipline of Journaling
  • How to Read a Blog … for Pastors
  • Make a Blog Posting Schedule
  • How to Write a Blog Post … for Pastors: 6 Ideas
  • The Best Blog Posts … Are Often Lists
  • Writing Effective Headlines, or Post Titles

The site also has 5 questions with 44 different blogging pastors that are each great reads.
Check it out and pass it along to your pastor. It will be well worth it.

Tips on frequent posting

Tall Skinny Kiwi has some advice on frequent posting for bloggers:

Blogging Advice in the Wild Wild Web 2.0
The rules of blogging have changed for our brave new web and Eric Kintz has some good advice.
Why blog frequency does not matter anymore

#1 – Traffic is generated by participating in the community; not daily posting
#2 – Traffic is irrelevant to your blog’s success anyway
#3 – Loyal readers coming back daily to check your posts is so Web 1.0
#4 – Frequent posting is actually starting to have a negative impact on loyalty
#5 – Frequent posting keeps key senior executives and thought leaders out of the blogosphere
#6 – Frequent posting drives poor content quality
#7 – Frequent posting threatens the credibility of the blogosphere
#8 – Frequent posting will push corporate bloggers into the hands of PR agencies
#9 – Frequent posting creates the equivalent of a blogging landfill
#10 – I love my family too much

I’ve never set a goal for myself, but I do usually try to find at least two things I can blog about weekdays.
On the other hand, my mom and sister have told me they don’t read any of my “long entries” and usually just skim my page.
My dad tends to read everything, but usually a week at a time – like his e-mails.
My mom naturally is only concerned about things that directly involve me, rather than anything political or related to music, wrestling or other things. She does seem to enjoy the recipes though.
What about the rest of you? Why do you read my blog? What do you look for?
Do you enjoy personal insight? Politics? The fight for Africa?
What about other blogs you visit? Do you visit more than once a day? Why do you visit them?