Jan
31

Big Weekly List of Links for Bloggers (74 Links)

This week’s list is another semi-lengthy one. If you’d like to see the ten or so that I will select as the best from the week, be sure to subscribe to my newsletter (form below this post). You’ll also get other great resources too! Systemize Your Time for Blogging Seth’s Blog: Random rules for ideas…
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Jan
30

Get to the Point by Breaking Your Blog Posts

I’m a Pastor, so I preach to a congregation several times per week. There are a couple of pivotal moments in my preaching career in which my whole approach to delivering sermons changed. One of those was when I read Andy Stanley’s book Communicating for a Change. Stanley talks about a very simple principle –…
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Jan
29

The Totally Reckless Guide to Getting Things Done

Productivity is probably one of the more popular topics for bloggers of every flavor. It’s a good thing. After all, the internet has a way of taking over your life.

Jan
28

Why I’m So Passionate About Blogs and Blogging

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Hint: It’s not to “make money online.” It’s because blogging represents a much larger principle – that people and organizations have the power to publish content into the stream of all that people consume. Whether you have a divine or humanitarian message to proclaim or a product to market, online publishing is the future. Mitch…
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Jan
27

Book Review: Inbound Marketing

I’ve just finished reading Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs (The New Rules of Social Media), and wanted to pass it along to my readers as a pretty good starting place for those new to marketing services and products on the web. Inbound Marketing is a good primer on the basic…
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Jan
26

You Missed the Inaugural Edition of Blog A Little Better This Week

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That’s right – I’ve got a fancy newsletter list and I plan on sending updates weekly – more than just a glorified rss feed but a nice resource for bloggers. You can see the inaugural edition of Blog A Little Better This Week but I’d really recommend you subscribe using one of the THREE forms…
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Jan
26

Your Site Is Just a Launching Pad

For the past few days, I’ve been offering some video posts here about the cloud that surrounds content consumers today… Get Your Content Into the Cloud Infiltrating the Cloud In Which People Breathe Decrease the Distance by Growing Your Network Today, I want to get a bit more specific about how to understand the cloud…
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Jan
25

Decrease the Distance by Growing Your Network

People who are active online have determined the size of the cloud in which they consume content and have a tendency not to venture outside of it. How then do you connect with them? By growing your own network and decreasing the distance of separation. Here’s a Youtube link to Decrease the Distance by Growing…
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Jan
25

Big Weekly List of Links for Bloggers (85 Links)

Welcome to the weekly edition of all the cool stuff I’ve browsed in the last week related to the blogging and social media niche. By the way, I thought I’d steal an opportunity to plug my email newsletter, still in development, but bound to be helpful! Subscribe here. Five Magic Keys for Engaging Your Readers…
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Jan
24

Infiltrating the Cloud In Which People Breathe

I wanted to clarify my thoughts from my previous post about getting your content into the cloud. I mention some technologies here that people “breathe” every day, such as their subscribed feeds, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Our goal is not only to get people to our site, but to get our content to where they are…
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Jan
22

The User Experience of the Real Time Web

This is a guest post. Interested in contributing and receiving some promotion? The real time web can be a lot of fun for users, even if you aren’t a user of Facebook, Twitter, or other real time web service. The real time web can open up new information that users otherwise wouldn’t have known how…
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Jan
21

Get Your Content Into the Cloud

If you are a content provider, you have to stop thinking about how to get people to arrive at your website and start asking how you can get your content integrated into the cloud in which people live their daily lives. This is what I discuss in this video, but I’ll be breaking this idea…
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