I just found this video site called The Work of the People. And thought I’d pass on these thoughts about worship for you this Sunday.
Entries from May 2007 ↓
Worship God in Truth
May 27th, 2007 — christianity, faith and work
Blog Like Einstein - Finally a Formula that Predicts Blog Traffic with a 0.8 Correlation
May 26th, 2007 — blogging, marketing, thehighcalling.org
So, what’s the best conclusion I can draw from all of this? I need more data. More importantly, I know that more data will be useful because even this small experiment showed that it is very possible to harness the power of blogs in a simple grass roots way. With a little bit of careful instruction, I hope to plan future experiments to target the relative importance of specific variables.
Here are some of the things I’m wondering:
WebLiquid Helps Me Think
May 25th, 2007 — blogtipping, inspiring, marketing
Yesterday, I asked readers to help me help you. The two comments surprised me completely.
6 Characteristics of Blogs That Move Serious Traffic
May 25th, 2007 — blogging, marketing, thehighcalling.org
The top five referring blogs sent us 64% of all the traffic from blogs. Although that’s a lot, our traffic flow was much more evenly distributed than the 80/20 rule you sometimes hear.
So I thought I would just describe some of the common things I noticed in these top 5 blogs.
What Happens When You Combine Aslan, Lawn Art, and Steam Shovels?
May 24th, 2007 — poetry, speculative fiction
You get a poem called “Garden of Stone and Flesh.” My attempt at blank verse for the time being.
Blog Tours - What Mattered and What Didn’t
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.
Help Me Help You
May 23rd, 2007 — marketing, readers
John Wesley over at Pick the Brain has 27 lessons he learned while growing his blog readership to 3000 in just six months. (That’s quite a bit higher than the conservative first run of medium-sized Christian Presses, by the way. Also, it’s higher than the subscription rate of many literary magazines.)
Blog Tours - 3 Things That Worked
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.
Avoiding the Copyright Armageddon
May 23rd, 2007 — CSFF, business, poetry
I’m not sure what the copyright armageddon is exactly, but it sounds bad, right? We should run screaming from it, right? We should be afraid, very afraid, right?
CSFF - The Sword Review and What Happens When Metaphors Aren’t Metaphors
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.
