Some different churches have asked what the best way to create great blogging habits, so I wanted to share our blogging habits here for those that are wanting to possible improve their own process of getting an article online or someone that is just getting into blogging and want a solid foundation. It should known that these are our habits of writing 300-700 word articles every single day in less than an hour and so we need to maximize efficiency in a short amount of time.
The Shifting Global Church [Infographic]
The Church has always been one to flourish in areas where our eyes are deeply drawn to God and the 20th century church is no different. We have all heard of the stats about Europe being a religious wasteland and America close on its heels. Even with that knowledge, this infographic is both saddening and disturbing.
Personally, I would love for us to understand that missions is not something that we do overseas, but the ability to bring the Gospel to a group of people that we simply do not understand yet. Unfortunately, American Christians probably can say that their own backyard is a missions field, because we have not been doing a good job of bringing the Gospel to our neighbors.
What’s In Your Bag, Jeremy Smith?
This series of What’s In Your Bag? has contributors opening up their own tech bags and sharing with the world actual devices that they regularly use within their own blogging and professional lives from various backgrounds all over the world. The hope is that we can give you guys some great insight into some useful tools that we already are using in the day to day.
Here is what is in my bag in the photo above from the top-left to the bottom-right:
App of the Week: Google Hangout
This is the nineteenth article in the series App of the Week series.
For many years, Google has been developing many different ways to communicate with people, including Google Hangout,a competitor to GMail in Waves, Google Talk, and others. Since the inception and release of Google+, Google has pushed to unify many parts of its company or completely end them and the long overdue combining of all of Google’s messenger web apps. What was once considered a bit of a joke for a large company to not have a masterful messenger client is now the envy of many other companies. Here is our review of the iOS app.
How Social Media Landed Me A New Job
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At the end of this month, I will not have a job at my current employment. But thanks to the effort I have put into social media to this point, I have a job lined up for me come July 1. Yesterday’s tips to take your social media accounts from good to great really are what I have been experimenting since starting this blog. That being said, there are a couple of things you need to know if you also want to try to get a job in social media.
ChurchMag’s 2013 Top 30 Church Tech Blogs
Be sure to check-out our most current Top Church Tech Blogs list.
We asked for submissions so that we could put together a new top 30 list and you guys did not disappoint. With over 40 submissions, this is the most diverse and strongest list we have had yet (the 2012 list). The stats have been compiled and the results are in.
My tip to you: network with these people, add them to your RSS list, subscribe to the Twitter list via @ChurchMag, and engage with them on their content.
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