Yesterday I blogged about the Top 60 Church Blogs and how nice it was that ChurchRelevance had compiled that list. Kent’s extensive research and data-collecting inspired me to do some of my own.
So, what did I do? I took Kent’s top 60 and figured out what blogging platform they were using. The findings are interesting.
8 Blogging Platforms were in the lineup with WordPress taking top honors, having 44% of the blogging-share:
You can download the PowerPoint Slide here.
In addition, here are the Top 60 and their platform choice:
1. Tim Challies
- MovableType
2. Between Two Worlds / Justin Taylor
- Blogger
3. Stuff Christians Like / Jon Acuff
- Blogger
4. Out of Ur
- MovableType
5. The Resurgence / Mark Driscoll
- Drupal
6. GetReligion
7. Swerve / Craig Groeschel & Bobby Gruenewald
- WordPress
- Blogger
9. Ragamuffin Soul / Carlos Whittaker
- WordPress
10. The Evangelical Outpost / Joe Carter
- MovableType
11. Church Marketing Sucks / Brad Abare & Kevin Hendricks
- MovableType
12. Internet Monk / Michael Spencer
- WordPress
- Custom
14. Perry Noble
- WordPress
15. Tall Skinny Kiwi / Andrew Jones
- TypePad
16. Monday Morning Insight / Todd Rhoades
- ExpressionEngine
17. Church Relevance / Kent Shaffer
- WordPress
18. FlowerDust / Anne Jackson
- WordPress
19. Leading Smart / Tim Stevens
- TypePad
20. Steven Furtick
- WordPress
21. Emergent Village
- TextPattern
22. Vintage Faith / Dan Kimball
- TypePad
23. Adrian Warnock
- Blogger
- WordPress
- WordPress
- WordPress
27. Reformissionary / Steve McCoy
- TypePad
28. THEOOZE / Spencer Burke
- Custom
29. Jesus Creed / Scot McKnight
- MovableType
30. Ed Stetzer
- MovableType
31. Think Christian
- WordPress
32. Mark D. Roberts
- WordPress
33. Brian McLaren
- MovableType
34. Tony Morgan
- WordPress
35. Worship Matters / Bob Kauflin
- WordPress
36. Eugene Cho
- WordPress
- TypePad
38. Ben Arment
- TypePad
39. Evotional / Mark Batterson
- Blogger
40. Relevant Magazine Blog / Cameron Strang
- WordPress
41. JollyBlogger / David Wayne
- TypePad
42. Scott Hodge
- TypePad
43. Dave Ferguson
- TypePad
44. Pomomusings / Adam Walker Cleaveland
- WordPress
45. Pure Church / Thabiti Anyabwile
- Blogger
46. Gary Lamb
- WordPress
47. Ed Young
- TypePad
48. Catablog / Jesse Phillips & LV Hanson
- ExpressionEngine
49. Don Miller
- WordPress
50. Bill Kinnon
- TypePad
51. DJ Chuang
- WordPress
52. Mark Beeson
- TypePad
53. More Than Dodgeball / Joshua Griffin
- WordPress
54. Church Communications Pro / Cory Miller & James Dalman
- WordPress
55. Kem Meyer
- TypePad
56. Drew Goodmanson
- WordPress
57. The Digital Sanctuary / Cynthia Ware
- WordPress
58. Collide Magazine Blog / Scott McClellan
- WordPress
59. Mark Waltz
- TypePad
60. Reformation 21
- MovableType
On a personal sidenote, I have concluded that I strongly dislike this “collecting of data” routine of this magnitude and will humbly submit that people like Kent, who are passionate about data-mining, are much better suited to do it.
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Wow – that was a lot of work! Interesting to see because it shows that CONTENT IS KING. Between Two Worlds (no.2) is on blogger, has remained unchanged for many, many years, is about as boring visually as possible – but it's no. 2. Justin has great content. Of course – I wonder if he'd be no.1 if he put in the type of work Challies puts into his blog design. But then again – I don't think he cares. He cares about content and it shows.
definitely. rock on! and now you're on WP.. or at least a non-broken hacked platform… boo!
Very interesting breakdown. I have the feeling that that WordPress segment is only going to get larger over the next year.
i'd like to think so… right?
This post is very beautiful to me.
you are an inspiration. i'll now leave the analytics gathering to you… i hate it.
and you're better at it anyways.
Not a Xanga-er on the list. Coincidence? I think not.
hahaha. polled a few years ago, and we'd all be on there…!
Right you are. 2 eprops for you.
dude. my wife was one of those that was a “zero epropper”… she gave NO love… said it was a philosophical imperative NOT to…
i married her anyway.
WordPress.
rocks.
The pie chart is exactly as I would have presumed – but it's cool to see it verified and in living color. Very nice!
it's blog mama!
cool. thanks.
of course!
Is EVERYONE using WP.org? Because .com use would also be interesting.
but… why????????????? .org is so good to us….
WordPress.org is great, but .com is free and easy. There's no tech or cost barrier like there is with .org. Churches and leaders should be encouraged not to let cost or lack of know-how stop them from starting a good blog.
absolutely.
but, on the flip side, there's much to be had about managing your own.. and the flexibility and control is unmatched…!
but it's a good starting point, that's for sure! thanks!
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Penny
thanks for this….?
It would be interesting to see how this list would look today.
So would I!