When I was in high school, I ran the mile in a solid 15 minutes and 45 seconds! So speed demon I am not. In fact, I can still hear the voices from my Pee Wee baseball career shouting from the stands, “Run, Brandon, run! Faster, Brandon, run!” The 30 feet to first base was…
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Dec
16
Blogging Is a Marathon, Not a Sprint
Nov
11
Writing Great Posts from Life’s Overflow
If all great leaders are great listeners (and they are), it is equally true that all great writers are great readers. And our best writing will be done from the overflow of a head and heart full of inspiration. When I was a kid, I occasionally got to go on an emergency call with my…
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Nov
07
Mediocre Will Do Just Fine, Won’t It?
Mediocre makes money. You’ll get paid if you do mediocre stuff in life. Do your job, punch the clock, collect the check. In the world of blogging… get a decent domain, throw up a WordPress site, aggregate some good content, integrate adsense, make some Christmas spending money. Do it one hundred times, all mediocre of…
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Oct
30
A Delicious Way To Write Community-Sized Articles
A community-sized article is one that stretches beyond your site in its appeal and application. We’re all concerned with higher traffic and more clicks, but we’re also far more dependent upon each other than we realize in this business called blogging. I think there’s a reason why car dealers all open shop right next door…
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Oct
27
Blogging Is Best When It’s Personal
You might have already read Darren Rowse’s post today at Problogger about the power of being personal in your blogging. If not, check it out – it’s… personal. The post reminded me of one of my all-time favorite blog posts of my own at my personal and pastoral blog, Life Here and There, simply entitled…
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Oct
22
The Immeasurable Value Of One Great Fan
I have somehow amassed a little over 11,000 followers on Twitter, which affords me an opportunity to poll the crowd now and then. Sometimes, when I’m at the end of my feed reading and I’ve got five extra minutes, I’ll send out a brief tweet that says something like, “Anybody have a good blog on…
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Oct
20
Want To Start Blogging? There’s a Lot to Think About
When I started blogging, there were very few platforms from which to choose. I chose Blogger at the time and later converted it to a hosted WordPress blog, then started hosting my own WordPress blog using a shared Hostgator (aff) account (which I still have). That was way back in the stone ages… 2005. The…
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Oct
19
I’d Like to Blog A Little Better, How About You?
Welcome to the very first post on We Blog Better, where I intend to encourage great online communication, community, and creativity. I’ll write about writing, blog about blogging, and throw in some bonus stuff now and then. Want to subscribe to keep up with it all? Here’s the feed link. By the way, the short…
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