Tag Archives: Blogging
Orange Week 2.0
Posted on 27. Sep, 2010 by Kenny.
So last January I was preparing to head up to Dallas for the Orange Tour and in my excitement I flippantly declared the following week “Orange Week.” The folks at ReThink thought it was a good idea, so the following week a rag-tag group of incredibly Kidmin Pastors blogged about the Orange Strategy. It was an incredible experience, an almost overwhelming source of information and ideas. Well, it’s getting ready to happen again. Why so soon?
Well, next week the 2011 Orange Conference opens for registration and that’s worth getting excited about. So, with some help from the ReThink team, we’ve organized another Orange Week (let’s call it Orange Week 2.0) and it’s going to be even better than before. Check out the blogging team this time around.… Read the rest
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Blog milestone: Post 1000!
Posted on 03. Apr, 2010 by Kenny.
This is it. My 1000th post. That’s really hard to pronounce.
It’s really hard to believe all that’s happened in the last three years becasue of this little blog. 1000 posts ago, or 1096 days ago, I installed wordpress and started typing this blog, wondering who if anyone would read it. I didn’t realize how much it would change me life. Venturing into the world of blogging has introduced me to several very close friends who’ve impacted me in a pretty significant way. This blog has allowed me to impact many people in very tangible ways as well. I also firmly believe that some of the things I’ve written will or have already impacted many people and I just might never know about it.… Read the rest
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Switch to Dreamhost: Save money and be happy
Posted on 30. Jan, 2010 by Kenny.
I switched hosting companies about 9 months ago.I’d been with GoDaddy for many years and was generally happy. I’d had my share of frustrations when things didn’t work quite the right way as GoDaddy did things differently than other hosting companies or when GoDaddy only offered IMAP email on premium accounts where other hosting companies offered it to all accounts. Although GoDaddy was one of the cheapest hosts around, I was paying for four separate hosting accounts for all my blogs/sites. Then I switched to Dreamhost and everything got exceptionally better!
Although hosting fees are a little more expensive than GoDaddy, I can host as many websites as I want on one hosting account. That alone was worth the switch. In addition, Dreamhost offers one click wordpress (among other popular web applications) installs, automatically integrates with google apps (if you want) and all kinds of other features.… Read the rest
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Orange 09 Bloggers Lounge
Posted on 29. Apr, 2009 by Kenny.
Hey, if you’re at the Orange Conference this year, come check out the Blogger’s Lounge! It’s on the second floor of the arena. Free internet and coffee, how perfect is that?
Orange Blogger’s Lounge from Kenny Conley on Vimeo.… Read the rest
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Orange Blogger Brown Bag Lunches
Posted on 23. Apr, 2009 by Kenny.
Hey people. Something you may not have known about yet.
On Thursday and Friday of next week, several bloggers will be hosting brown bag lunches. It’s an opportunity to network and learn more about blogging, social media and network collaboration. So if you’re interested, here are some details.
Stop by the upper level of the Arena to meet over twenty bloggers that write about their experience with children’s and student ministry. We’ll be having brown bag lunches on Thursday and Friday with a handful of the bloggers to discuss very specific topics in an informal setting. Space is limited and will be filled on a first come-first served basis. Meet at the specified time at the top of the escalators in the Arena to head to the lunch location.… Read the rest
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Blogging at Orange: Tools of the Trade
Posted on 22. Apr, 2009 by Kenny.
Several months ago I was asked to be a part of the Orange bloggers lounge in an official capacity. So I’ve been thinking about what I need to bring and planning out my time while at Orange. So here’s what I’m bringing and my overall blogging strategy.
My Equipment
Macbook Pro
This is my main tool. I’ll have a backup battery as I’ll have this thing running during all of the general sessions and plenty of other times in-between.
Flip Mino
I’m planning to do quite a bit of video blogging. I’ll do some from the cam in my MacBook, but the Flip allows for more flexibility as well as interviews… and there will be interviews.
HTC Touch
This is my new phone.… Read the rest
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The 2009 Orange Conference Bloggers Lounge
Posted on 21. Apr, 2009 by Kenny.
In case you haven’t heard, the 2009 Orange Conference will have a bloggers lounge. I’m lucky enough to have been invited to be a part of the Orange 09 blogging team. However, the bloggers lounge isn’t just for bloggers, but a place people to connect. Each blogger has his or own “network” of readers and contributers the bloggers lounge is simply a place for bloggers and readers to connect. Oh, and there will be all kinds of blogger to blogger networking going on. Expect to see a surge of video, live blogging and normal posts coming out of Orange. I expect that there will be amazing coverage spewed out on the web next week.
Chances are that you are either following a number of blogs out there on the inter-web OR you’ve at least checked into a few of them from time to time while doing a search online.
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Unleash your blogging potential
Posted on 21. Mar, 2009 by Kenny.
Okay, don’t laugh at me. This post was inspired from Tony Morgan’s breakout at the 2008 Unleash. Yeah, the 2008 conference. Yes the 2009 conference was last week… I’m just a little behind. No, I didn’t go, but I read Rich Butler’s notes from the breakout a year ago and I saved this as a draft and have been putting off writing this post. I’m not really sure why, but I’m glad I did.
Here are the main points:
1. Determine your primary audience.
2. Post regularly.
3. Keep your post short.
4. Don’t sell yourself.
5. Use Humor
6. Stop Attacking other people and ministries on your blog. (Hurt people, hurt people!)
7. Remember blogging isn’t private.
8. Be a thought leader.… Read the rest
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Updating my twitterfeed with hashtags
Posted on 10. Feb, 2009 by Kenny.
In case you missed the bus last week, the Children’s Minsitry community adopted a Twitter hashtag. It’s been a hit so far. So, if you’re blogging anything about children’s ministry, be sure to include #kidmin in your tweet.
Well, as a result, I had to update my twitterfeed. What is twitterfeed? I wrote about it many months ago here. Honestly, if you’re a blogger and you use twitter, why are you not using it? Basically it’s a third party service that scans your blog… or any blog for that matter. Whenever a new post is published, a pre-written tweet is sent out with a link to the new post. Honestly, when I do look at my stats, I’ve found that Twitter and Facebook are becoming a much more significant referrer to my blog.… Read the rest
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In case you’re wondering…
Posted on 18. Dec, 2008 by Kenny.
If you follow this blog at all, you may be thinking… “Dang, Kenny’s writting a bunch of blog posts.”
Yeah, I am. The last few months have been marked with 1-2 week vacations of me posting nothing. I had many great ideas, I just didn’t take the time to write them down.
In addition, I’m trying to hit a personal goal. The other day I wrote about my goal of hitting post 400 by the new year. It was a very attainable goal, but taking time off slowed me down from reaching this goal. However, I’m very goal-driven and I’ve got it stuck in my head that I want post #400 to publish at 11:59 PM on December 31st. It will be followed by post number #401 at 12:00 AM on January 1st.… Read the rest
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