For those that have never heard of Skribit, well, here’s your introduction: Skribit is a Blog Topic Suggestion Widget, served up on your site for your users to give you feedback or suggestions on what they would like to hear from you.
It was launched more than a year ago and I happened to install it on Human3rror for a bit. Honestly, it didn’t “catch on” so I pulled it.
But, I’m rethinking it’s use again, not just for ChurchCrunch but also for pastors, staff, church, and ministry blogs.
You see, as blogs become more ubiquitous in the online world and as more and more staff and pastors join the fray, the congregations will naturally desire to hear more from them about specific topics. I can see Skribit becoming one such tool to manage and moderate suggested blog topics and handle questions.
Skribit isn’t a “feedback loop” on what’s broken or suggestions to make the site better, but rather a defined place to ask the authors of the blogs to consider writing about topics that interest the people. They then vote on them. The authors can then do as they will.
You can customize the look, add functionality in you Feedburner, and more.
What do you think? Would (or will) you use it for your ministry blogs? Personal? Should ChurchCrunch rock one of these?
i say bring it back!
cool. let's take a look…!
Couldn't you possibly use uservoice for this? Wait, you have taken that off. lol
yeah, i took that off… more for feedback for issues.
interesting take, would love to see this in action on a site somewhere, sounds really good, love to try it on my own blog as well, thanks for the review
would help if I login first, sorry
thanks for the idea, and yes, I think you should try it.
@jasondtaylor
ok. sweet. let me take a look…
If you want to see Skribit in action go to blog.weatherby.net. I have been using it for about a year and get enough activity to make my blog better. Full disclosure, I am an adviser to the Skribit team, but only because I like the product.
co-founder? hehe. more than just “like” i think!
Love to see it on Churchcrunch. I think you'd get great feedback on what the church is wondering about technology.
I wouldn't use it. My audience would ask me tough theological questions that would only get me in trouble:)
a great problem to have perhaps…?
my question is: why do you have only summary in your rss feed instead of the full text of each blog post, aa it is commonly practiced ?
let me know if you rock it!
just voted on skribit
WORD. Thanks tyler!
My buddy Joel Klampert is using it, and he and I have had some discussion on the load time it seems to be bringing to blogs. I know for his blog (using both Firefox and Safari here on Mac) it alone increased the page load time by at least 6-8 seconds. Not worth it to me if it's going to do that.
I'll be checking and testing it out this week. let me know if you see some lameness.