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Blogging and Blog Tips

Comments scattering in the wind?

20 September 2006

How do you know who else has commented on your comment?  How do you remember what comments you’ve left, and where?  Technology is rushing to catch up with the exploding world of blogging.  One of the first to really address these issues related to commenting is cocomment.  Using cocomment, you can keep track of all [...]

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One thing at a time – Missionary blog tip #7

20 July 2006

It’s a great temptation, and almost everybody does it. You haven’t blogged for a while, so you have just a few little tidbits of unrelated information to get across.  It’s the famous “This and that” post – the one called “Random notes” or entitled “Bits of news”.  It’s exactly what the experts tell you to [...]

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Trackback – Missionary blog tip #6

8 May 2006

There are many different types of conversation taking place on the internet.  You’ve got email, instant messaging, message boards, and commenting on blogs.  Most people who have spent any time around blogs are familiar with the concept of commenting (read my comments tips here).  But when it comes to conversations between blogs, comments are the [...]

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Video blogging week cometh

31 March 2006

Mexico Movies has notified us that there’s an important event coming up next week – Video Blogging Week 2006!  I thought this would be a good time to highlight some past missionary video blogs, partly just to show you that it can be done and that’s it’s being done more and more often!  Why not [...]

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Comments – Missionary blog tip #5

8 March 2006

Probably well over 95% of our missionary blogs use comments, so I’m probably preaching to the converted.  Of course, there’s more to using comments than just having them available. So first of all, do use comments. Some of you aren’t yet using them because you’re not using software that allows them.  Some aren’t using them [...]

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Tip #4 addendum

12 January 2006

In the past, when I’ve written a missionary blog tip I’ve also included a few blogs that are doing it well.  When I talked about domain names, I didn’t mention anyone, so here are some belated “gold stars”.  Now remember, some of these domains specifically point to blogs, others are for websites that include blogs. [...]

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The domain name – Missionary blog tip #4

5 January 2006

Today’s blogging tip is:  get a domain name.  You might be thinking,”That sounds expensive”, or “that sounds too technical” or “a what?!”  So let me answer some of your questions. A domain name is, of course, your address on the web.  Here it’s Missionary-Blogs.com, or www.Missionary-Blogs.com.  There are other domains besides “dot-coms”, there’s also .org, [...]

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The zodiac, and why you should care

13 December 2005

I’ve wondered on a number of occasions why so many missionaries on Blogger have their zodiac sign listed in their profile. Many Christians I’ve met prefer to stay away from astrology altogether. Finally, I understand, thanks to Billy Haas’ post Apology (he should have called it Astrology Apology – what do you think?).  Apparently Blogger [...]

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Working in a sensitive location?

3 December 2005

Here’s another idea for those who want to keep a certain amount of anonymity online.  It’s always a challenge to try to keep people informed about your ministry, and yet keep your information from becoming public online.  And the problem’s only going to get worse.  This from the Web Evangelism Bulletin: SENSITIVE LOCATIONS: missions staff [...]

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Instant information – Missionary blog tip #3

14 November 2005

When I’m trying to persuade a missionary to create a blog, there’s a certain aspect I always mention.  And strangely enough, it seems to be an aspect that most missionary bloggers overlook.  And yet it’s sitting there in most blogging software, waiting to be used.  In the months to come, people around the world will [...]

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