February 15th, 2008 — blogging, blogtour, highcallingblogs.com, marketing, networking
Lately, L. L. Barkat and I have been pretty busy trying organize everything we know about social media for a presentation at Mt. Hermon. Yesterday, I presented some of what I’ve learned about social media to the San Antonio Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals.
I promised the AFP people to share the slideshow online. Here it is…
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January 28th, 2008 — blogtour, christianity, faith and work, highcallingblogs.com, marketing, networking
At FastCompany this month, Clive Thompson asks, “Is the Tipping Point Toast?” He makes a good point that “your average slob is just as likely as a well-connected person to start a huge new trend.”
Why should any readers of GoodWordEditing.com care?
December 14th, 2007 — blogging, marketing, networking
My good friend, L.L., is coining a new term and using Blogger in an interesting way to build community for her upcoming book: Stone Crossings. I haven’t read the book yet (because it doesn’t come out until April 2008), but I’m excited about the premise.
L.L. first posted about her wog concept at Seedlings In Stone a few weeks ago.
Pretty quickly, several friends pointed out a problem with the word she coined.
November 17th, 2007 — marketing, parenting, reading
I’m not sure how I feel about book publishers trying to use video to promote books, but this book looks pretty cool for my six-year-old daughter.
November 7th, 2007 — highcallingblogs.com, marketing, networking
It’s late. My kids are in bed. My wife is still in a corset pretending to be Gwendolyn from The Importance of Being Earnest.
And I wanted to play around with an interesting little widget I saw on ProBlogger this morning. AdaptiveBlue’s SmartLinks. They’re apparently using it or experimenting using it to promote their b5media blog network. Since that network is one of the models I’m following for HighCallingBlogs.com, I took note. At this point only 10 out of nearly 300 b5media blogs are showing up in the smartlink badge. I’ll be curious to see where they go with it.
So that’s the thing in my sidebar that may or may not become a community tool for HighCallingBlogs.com.
HighCallingBlogs, meet AdaptiveBlue. AdaptiveBlue, meet us. Maybe we’ll be fast friends. Maybe we’ll chat about the weather and move on. Who knows.
October 8th, 2007 — blogging, blogtour, marketing, networking
Who knows where blog tours came from? They seem to be especially prevalent in the CBA, and I’ve been trying to figure out ways to make them work. It tain’t easy, folks.
If you are a writer looking to help the publisher sell your book, you need to read this post. If you are a blogger looking to see what social media can do, you need to read this post. If you are a publisher, looking to see how social media can help you sell books, you need to read this post.
THEN after you read the post, take the amazing TRUE FALSE TEST ABOUT BLOG TOURS!
July 20th, 2007 — blogtipping, marketing
If you’re like me, you’re tired of being told to grow kids God’s way and dare to discipline. I mentioned Mary DeMuth’s book Authentic Parenting earlier this week in an review. And the ideas in her book have really stuck with me. You know how some books do that, right? I know not every reader here is a parent, but if you are, definitely consider purchasing that book. It’s got some great stuff in it. And it’s only $13.00. That’s a good deal for a new book.
… And if you do decide to purchase it, please do so by clicking through to Mary’s site (that way we can track the effectiveness of this little social media experiment).
July 17th, 2007 — blogtipping, marketing, publishing
I’ve been needing to start reviewing books here. My friend, Mary DeMuth (aka Relevant Girl), finally pushed me into it by giving me an ARC of her newest book, Authentic Parenting in a Postmodern Culture.
(ARC is publisher’s jargon for Advanced Reading Copy.)
This book is really good. No kidding. It approaches parenting on four fronts. I’ll share the four fronts over the next few weeks so as to participate in her blog tour with several successive wave of folks. And to keep this post to a bloggy length.
First, Mary teaches about parenting with…
July 1st, 2007 — blogging, marketing
I’m getting a little tired of the ridiculous expectations and social media hype bloggers are setting for businesses.Â
June 8th, 2007 — faith, marketing, podcast, responses
Yesterday, Mark D. Robert’s comment section exploded, and he wisely chose to remain above the fray, popping in every so often to remind people to be civil.
Why? Mark D. Roberts—I think I can call him my friend, Mark D. Roberts—has done something wonderfully gutsy. He debated Christopher Hitchens on Hugh Hewitt’s Townhall, and now he’s blogging a more thoughtful, less interrupted response.Â
I finished listening to the debate this morning while I rode my bike to work. (Life is good.) And here is my primary thought.
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