Belief, Blogging, and Beyond Resources
Workshop
- Slides + Audio [10 MB quicktime; 35 minutes; the ABC News piece on bloggers as the 2004 people of the year increased the filesize significantly; therefore, I left it out. please view the piece from the above link.]
- Slides [1 MB pdf]
- Audio [10 MB mp3; 32 minutes]
- Handout [pdf]
Basics
History
- Wikipedia entry on “blog”
- Into the Blogosphere–The New Information Revolution
- 2004 Word of the Year: Blog
- 2004 People of the Year: Bloggers
- State of the Blogosphere
Why Blog?
- Authenticity
- Blogging Between Sundays (pdf) – Author describes “the best pastor blog I have seen” (similar idea given by Ray Pritchard (see #2))
- Accountability
- Holistic Evangelism
- Jordan Cooper speaks about splitting up his site.
- C.S. Lewis quote
- 56% of Xanga users are Asian; 18 is the average age
- 90% of bloggers are age 13-29. More than half of those are teens.
- Edification
- We Know More Than Our Pastors (pdf)
- Pastor Tod Bolsinger advocates blogging
- Justin Taylor’s Blog – Many helpful resources.
- Case Study: Blogs & Apologetics
Why Not
- Anonymity as a license to sin
- Myopic mentality
- The Unberable Lightness of Blogs [response | response to the response (scroll to the bottom)]
- Blogging to Worship God 2 – Attitudes – Carl Trueman quote
- Shallow dialogue
- Prop of pride
- Blogging to Worship God 3 – Motives – Signs of blogging to glorify yourself
- Blogging to Worship God 3 – Motives – Signs of blogging to glorify yourself
How To
- Blogging to Worship God
- Biblical advice for bloggers
- Truth and blogging
- Christian blog evangelism
- How To Start a Blog
- Blogging Starter Checklist
- Weblong Usability: Top Ten Design Mistakes in Blogs [counterpoint]
- How to Write a Better Weblog
- Increase Pages Views on Your Blog
- Five Blog Reading Hacks
Tools
- Bloglines – Read blog feeds (RSS) efficiently [primer]
- Talk Digger – What are others saying about a certain URL?
- MyBlogLog – Track your readers
- FeedBlitz – Email Blog and RSS Subscriptions Service
- coComment – Track comments
- co.mments – Track comments
- Other ways to track comments
Other
- The Spirituality of Blogging
- Would the Apostle Paul Blog?
- Adventures of a Web Evangelist: “Myspace” & Paul
- Blog Responsibly
[update: more resources here.]
thinking critically about blogging
Justin Young has recorded his recent workshop on blogging, and made it (essentially) into a free webinar as: Belief, Blogging, and Beyond. It covers the Whys, Pros and Cons about blogging in 35 minutes, an excellent introduction and a perspective on th…
djchuang.com
July 10, 2006 at 4:29 pm
Great presentation, thoroughly enjoyed it. I’ve been doing some thinking about my own blogging habits recently and this has been formative in helping me think through some of it. Thanks again.
David Park
July 11, 2006 at 7:57 am
Thanks for taking the time to post all this. I think the quicktime video bugged out near the end, but it was a great presentation.
rob
July 17, 2006 at 1:21 pm
[...] Thanks to DJ, I just finished a presentation called Belief, Blogging, and Beyond Resources by Justin Long. [...]
Belief, Blogging, and Beyond Resources at effective web ministry notes
July 18, 2006 at 9:37 am
[...] A while back, DJ wrote in reference to my webinar of my MCCA workshop on blogging, “Perhaps he’ll make a future post on how he recorded the presentation and audio together so neatly in a QuickTime package.” [...]
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