Entries from November 2007 ↓

Good Words from GodBlogCon at BlogWorld

I’m no stenographer, but for myself and anyone weird sicko who wants to read my notes, I’m posting them here. Two sessions so far while I’m sitting here next to Rhett Smith.

First, Al Mohler made me proud to go to a Southern Baptist church.

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HighCallingBlogs Meet AdaptiveBlue

b5media smartlinksIt’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.

Are Blog Tours Helpful or Just “Hype”-ful?

conversational marketing looks like thisI’ve been emailing Austin Boyd back and forth a bit this week about his blog tour, trying to get his impression of its value. He gave me permission to post his comments here on my blog.

To set the context, Austin Boyd’s book The Return was featured on the Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy Blog Tour two months ago. (Go here to read my blog’s Page One review of the book from the tour.) Austin has a little bit of perspective on the event, and I asked him the hard question:

Now that the dust has settled on the CSFF blog tour, I’d be curious to hear how you felt about it.

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