We Blog Better has afforded me a pretty amazing journey up to this point. It’s provided a wonderful outlet for expressing many of my thoughts about blogging and social media. But the time has come for me to turn it over to someone whom I specifically sought out for the role of owning and editing this blog.

I began We Blog Better when I was writing only occasionally for Fuel Your Blogging and had far too many thoughts to share there. But with some recent developments in my own life, I’ve felt the need to regain focus and concentrate more energy on fewer projects. In particular, I’m going to be pouring more effort into Fuel Your Blogging and reviving the blog section of my web and logo design site as well.

I have loved getting to know the community of bloggers that surrounds this site. I’ve appreciated your feedback and support along the way and am grateful for the trust of We Blog Better’s subscribers and regular readers. I believe that you’re going to love Kiesha!

Kiesha Easley currently blogs personally at Highly Favored. She holds a Master of Arts in English. She is a graduate of the University of Toledo and has been published on Twitip.com, Examiner.com, Associate Programs, EzineArticles.com and other sites, as well as guest posting for Fuel Your Blogging.

I do have to tell the story here of what caught my attention about Kiesha. I had emailed her asking for a guest post for Fuel Your Blogging. I mentioned that something about her writing had “peaked” my interest. Her response was kind and engaging and she happened to correct my spelling (it should have been “piqued”) but never drew attention to my error. This struck me as cool. One of the things I value highly in blogging is a commitment to excellent writing, and Kiesha fits the bill.

I hope you’ll lend your ear and your support as Kiesha takes the reins and makes this blog her own. She’s going to do a fantastic job and I’m going to be around for a long time to promote her work here.

Thanks again for reading and supporting We Blog Better – you guys are all the best!

Just a note – I normally publish a big weekly list of links for bloggers by Monday, but I’m in California this week talking about blogging and social media and how it relates to Pastors, so I’m taking a few days off from blogging on WeBlogBetter.com – will return shortly!

All week I’ve been discussing the five dimensions of growth your blog should reflect. We started with growing warmer, then talked about growing deeper, moved on to growing stronger, and yesterday covered growing broader. I want to close the series by sharing the aspect of growth we focus on most of all – how to grow larger.

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I’ve enjoyed writing this week about five dimensions for growing your blog starting with growing warmer, then deeper, and yesterday, stronger. Today I’m tackling how your blog can grow broader.

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So we’ve talked in this series about how to grow warmer and how to grow deeper with your blog. Today, we’re going to touch on how to grow stronger in your blogging.

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Yesterday I started talking about five ways your blog should be growing and opened with the idea that your blog should grow warmer. Today, I want to move on and talk about how your blog can also grow deeper.

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I’m going to focus in the upcoming week on five dimensions in which your blog should be growing over time. We tend to think of a blog’s growth in terms of readership or pageviews, but there is much more to growth, long term, than statistical increases. Your blog needs to grow in other ways too.

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I’ve been doing a series of videos about how to get your content into the cloud, meaning, how to take what you’re publishing on your blog and get it into the cloud of content consumption in which web users live and breathe each day

Rather than trying to create a video for each method, or even a single blog post, I thought I’d put together a lengthy list of a variety of ways. I wanted to do this partly to demonstrate the sheer magnitude of options, but also to give you a list from which you could select one, two, or even ten “doable” tasks to apply today.

1. Write great content. (It all starts here.)
2. Tell your friends and family… face-to-face.
3. Email your friends and family to introduce your blog (but don’t spam strangers).
4. Include a link to your blog in your email signature.

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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 worth spreading
• How To Ease the Pressure of Blogging

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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 – preach one point per sermon. Have three good points to make? Why not break them apart and preach three good messages in a series. Why is this such a good tip? Because people will remember the one point you’re trying to get across more than they will remember each of the smaller details.

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