ChurchMag

The #1 Resource for Church Technology and Creativity

Web Hosting

Blogging

ChurchMag / Archives for Web / Blogging

ChurchMag TBT: Jeremy Smith


by

["ChurchMag TBT" is a 'Throw Back Thursday' on all things ChurchMag. Inspired by an upcoming ChurchMag podcast episode, we are looking back at personal -- and public -- throwbacks of ChurchMag.] My very first article on ChurchMag is titled Facebook Timeline: How This Will Impact Ministry. Ah... looking at this article, I notice so many different things. First off, I actually wrote the article nearly 7 years ago. If you look at all of my articles on ChuchMag, you will find older ones from when ... Read More

The Major Issue With Blogging in the Church at the Moment


by

Blogging has really evolved a lot over time, especially since I first got into blogging about seven years ago. I remember following lots of blogs via Google Reader and finding great ideas and advice from people who were all running their own blogs. More recently though we’ve seen the move towards “professional blogging” and now businesses. The personal blogs have almost all but died out and I believe that is a shame. ... Read More

The Shift From Comments, To No Comments, To Comment On Facebook


by

In days of old, you know, when blogging started, the number of visitors and views mattered most. The next important thing was the number of comments. For many, comments are an important way of measuring engagement and success. An important part of the engagement. Over the years, we've had 'successful' bloggers and marketers emphasize their importance. Then, some of the same, sang a different tune. They disabled comments on their blogs. After some time, commenting made a comeback. Now, there ... Read More

Blogger Guidelines for Blog Repost Permission Requests


by

Blogging is a very difficult medium to do effectively. Simply getting your ideas onto a website is not easy. Then you have to make sure you work hard to capture an audience, market well so people see your content, and optimize your blog with SEO so Google clearly sees it and posts it to the top of certain web searches. (This is so important, we dedicated a 1,140 word post to the topic of marketing a blog post as well as a "what next?" after you write your blog article.) One quick way to do this ... Read More

Stop Missing Scheduled Posts In WordPress


by

For the past 2 months I have had a serious issue on my WordPress powered personal site. Every single time I would schedule a post, it would miss posting the article at the right time, sometimes never posting it. I had to figure out how to stop missing scheduled posts. It took me a little while to figure out what was going on and I don't think it was an issue just for my site has ChurchMag has struggled with this as well. I reached out to some WordPress Church-friendly Twitter friends and they ... Read More

Readability Tests: How Readable is Your Text?


by

One crucial reason why people may stop reading your text—whether it’s a blog, a promotional flyer, an email, or anything else—is because they don’t understand it. This happens more often than you may think. And it’s a shame, because after all, you write to be read. The readability of your prose, then, is of crucial importance. A mistake many make when they write a text is that they forget to take their targeted audience into account. More specifically, the reading ability of their intended ... Read More

5 Vlogging Tips to Consider


by

We are in an era of vlogging. Not as in it's the hot new thing, though it is. As in, there are already people who are retiring from vlogging, it's that far into it. To give some formality to this, I speak form a bit of experience with my own Youtube channel having over 70 vlogs at the time of writing this article and the first having gone up on May 24, 2015. Below, I want to give some helpful tips about vlogging, which include the equipment, using an online video service like YouTube, and some ... Read More

Community Blogging Challenge #1 [Videos]


by

Last month, we had our first blogging challenge which we originally announced here. Five people showed up and so much content was written. Everyone said they had such a blast that I ended up purchasing a new webcam for my desktop so we can do it again. Here are the two videos, the first setting up our expectations for blogging and the second one is our reactions to what we either accomplished or ways we learned to do better next time: ... Read More