June 21st, 2007 — blogtipping, networking
Everything is about relationships really. Liz Strauss once asked me why I blog. I blog because each reader can respond in comments or via email. And those comment and email relationships often turn into a moment like this picture. When I meet someone I’ve gotten to know online and give him or her a big bear hug.
I can’t remember if Craver got a bear hug or just this sort of manlier side hug that you see in the picture. But it was super cool to meet him in person.
June 8th, 2007 — blogtipping, responses
I let you decide, Dawud Miracle. At your prompting, here’s my photo album response to David Airey’s face behind the blog series, which I’ve reinterpreted slightly as the family behind the blog.
May 25th, 2007 — blogtipping, inspiring, marketing
Yesterday, I asked readers to help me help you. The two comments surprised me completely.
May 24th, 2007 — blogging, blogtipping, marketing, thehighcalling.org
First, I need to give another disclaimer about data set. It is too small to draw a lot of conclusions. However, it is large enough to help me develop some future tests for measuring the power of blogs.
That said, here are the two variables that seemed to matter the most in predicting whether a blog would send traffic or not.
May 23rd, 2007 — blogging, blogtipping, thehighcalling.org
Yesterday we talked about what didn’t work. Here’s what worked.
1) Simple recommendations sent the most traffic.
This is the flip side of one factor that didn’t work. Not only did site reviews not harness traffic power, but short simple posts did. Think about that for a moment.
Work smarter, not harder.
May 22nd, 2007 — CSFF, blogtipping, fantasy, poetry
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It’s time again for the Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy blog tour! This month, we’re talking about The Sword Review, an online magazine project of Double-Edged Publishing, Inc.
May 9th, 2007 — blogtipping, faith and work
MEME TWO: The Ultimate Guide to Productivity
My secret is not martial arts, though I wish it was. Karin tagged me with this meme from Ben over at Instigator Blog.
May 8th, 2007 — blogtipping, responses
This week, I’m doing my meme homework.
May 7th, 2007 — blogging, blogtipping, responses
Over the next few days, I’m going to catch up on my meme homework by answering three memes. All three of them are something more than link farms. Like Dawud Miracle said, the best memes…
create engaging conversation that leads to dynamic and lasting relationships.Â
In fact, the best ones are creative games that get the juices flowing by answering composition questions for the writer.
1.They provide an occassion.
(I’ve been tagged.)2. They provide an audience.
(Every meme is read by the tagger at least.)3. They provide a simple purpose for a post.
(Answer the question.)
And they provide all kinds of questions. What makes you think? Why are you productive? Why do you blog?
The only thing a blogger has to do is come up with an answer. That’s the subject of your meme post. The trick is to make the subject fit with the content of your blog. I’ll do my best over the next few days.
If you’re like me, you have conflicting emotions about memes. When someone tags me, I think: “Cool! Someone thought of me. I’m not alone in this deep dark cyberworld after all!” then “Darn it! I have to participate in another stupid meme.”
What do you think of memes? When someone tags you, what is your honest first response?
April 23rd, 2007 — blogtipping, faith and work, speculative fiction, thehighcalling.org
Are you making a difference or are you earning a check? That’s the key question we ask readers at one of the sites I edit: TheHighCalling.org. And its something I’d like to think about philosophically for the next few days as part of the High Calling Blog Tour.
We just went live this weekend with our new design, and I have to say I am just pleased as punch that this thing is off the ground.
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