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Meet Andre Yee the Wiki Moses

by Marcus on July 11, 2008

I met Andre Yee about two years ago when I was just getting into blogging. He still blogs over at Every Square Inch about “Conversations on the Glory of Christ in Business and Culture,” and he’s really good.
The Social Media Prophet
Andre was one of the first bloggers we hired to write for TheHighCalling.org. (You can [...]

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Happy 125 Years, Brooklyn Bridge. This Poem’s For You.

by Marcus on May 28, 2008

The Brooklyn Bridge in New York was 125 years old this past weekend. The New York Times has some good celebration pictures of the celebration.
Since I couldn’t go hang out in New York, I’m celebrating with this super exciting educational reading of Walt Whitman’s masterpiece, “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.” I know, I know. I’m a real [...]

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Bloggers Can’t Be Trusted

by Marcus on April 7, 2008

At least that’s the implication of a recent article from eMarketer called The Growing Influence of Online Social Shoppers. (You can buy the full report for only $700…)
According to this report, people trust financial analysts more than bloggers. Only 12% of of respondents said they would trust bloggers as a credible source for information about [...]

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I’m Not a Brand and Neither Is My Blog

by Marcus on January 17, 2008

I love Randy Ingermanson. Let me just start there. I’m very excited to be presenting at Mt. Hermon with L. L. Barkat in part because it means I also get to participate in Randy’s fiction workshop. In fact, I finally went and got Oxygen, a book I’ve been meaning to read for sometime.
That said, I [...]

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A Wog By Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet

by Marcus on December 14, 2007

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 [...]

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The Death of Blogs? Let’s Not Be Melodramatic.

by Marcus on October 3, 2007

Just before he presented on blogging at the Religion Newswriter’s Association, Ted Olsen posted “The Death of Blogs” over at Christianity Today.

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Real Simple Syndication Made Simple

by Marcus on September 27, 2007

Yesterday at the Religion Newswriter’s Association New Media preconference, Brian Peat created an RNAconference blog. He even gave us a homework assignment to login and write a post. (Sorry, Brian, my dog ate my password, but I left several comments and even a trackback.)
At some point, Brian started playing around to show everyone the neat tricks you can [...]

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Good Words from Religion Newswriters

by Marcus on September 26, 2007

Today, I went to the new media preconference for the Religion Newswriter’s Association conference in San Antonio at the Menger Hotel.
In the first session Kate Fox encouraged the journalists there to “Thrive in the new media environment.”
Here are a few good words from Kate:

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‘Browse Inside’ Is Much Ado About Nothing

by Marcus on February 28, 2007

Patrick Borders on Emdashery pointed out “Browse Inside” yesterday. It has the potential to be an interesting tool from HarperCollins for readers and bloggers. But it still has some problems.

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