Tag Archives: Blogging
Goals
Posted on 15. Dec, 2008 by Kenny.
I’ve discovered that I’m a very goal oriented person. I can easily live life spinning my wheels and going no where. However, when I have clear goals, I progress. Even when I dont’ quite reach all of my goals, it’s usually still okay. Here are two simple goals I have right now.
Losing weight: If you follow my posts you know I’ve been working to lose some weight. After 6 months out of work, I put on some weight. When moving to Austin, I was the heaviest I’ve ever been. I was very sad about this. I changed my eating habits and decided that I wanted to lose 20 pounds by 2009. Last weekend I weighed in and I was only 2 pounds away from that goal.… Read the rest
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Maybe blogging isn’t quite dead yet
Posted on 15. Nov, 2008 by Kenny.
I just found this blog post that was linked from ProBlogger’s twitter feed.
A few weeks ago I wrote this post in response to “the death of blogging.”
I enjoyed the article. Although I believe that the social networking has changed the web since blogging made it’s debut many years ago, I’m not convinced we’ve seen the end of blogging. The article made some good points. Personally I get a lot out of reading blogs written by other church leaders as I know many other do as well. I follow their tweets as well, but it’s not the same as the blog posts. I really don’t think the next platform has arrived that is going to usher blogging out. We’ll just have to see.… Read the rest
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Blogging dead? Say it aint so.
Posted on 28. Oct, 2008 by Kenny.
This has been bugging me for a many days now. The fact that I haven’t just let it go or forgotten about it is the part of what bugs me. Steven Dilla, the Preschool Pastor at Fellowship Church, Grapvine (and an incredibly great guy, he gave me a fantastic tour a few months ago… thanks Matt for introducing me to Steven) deleted his blog. He read this article and then deleted it.
Now I’m a big fan of Wired magazine and really appreciate the insight on technology and culture. After reading the article myself I would have to say that I agree. Blogging is so 2004.
However, the true question is, “am I ready for change?”
I don’t know that I am… yet.… Read the rest
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Valuable lesson: I’m no good at managing multiple blogs
Posted on 27. Oct, 2008 by Kenny.
I’m just not very good at it. I have three blogs right now. This blog, a personal family blog and a church blog that we use to communicate to parents. Probably in the next few weeks, I’ll be launching another blog for volunteers. It’s less about regular updates and more about a place where they can get lesson plans, documents and view training resources. Man do we need that soon.
But, I’ve found that I’m just no good at doing all of these… at the same time. I’ve not written a word in two weeks on this blog, but in the mean time I’ve been making many updates to my other blogs. Sorry to neglect, I’ve got some things to discuss this week, so I should be regular week again.… Read the rest
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Sorry to waste your time with this post
Posted on 17. Sep, 2008 by Kenny.
No really, there’s nothing important here. I had a few minutes before a meeting and simply came across this. Apparently I’m 91% addicted to blogging. Just one more thing for me to give over to Jesus… 
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Theme Upgrade… can you help a brother out?
Posted on 06. Jul, 2008 by Kenny.
Okay, this weekend I’ve been upgrading my blogs and doing various maintenance. I upgraded to the most recent wordpress build for my personal blog and I actually don’t mind it at all. Karl Bastian had some pretty mean things to say about it as it seems to have caused a lot of frustrations for his blog. So, I decided to leave this blog alone… for now. Instead, I found a REALLY COOL plugin that make the admin page TONS better, so it’s like I got a new build anyway.
However (I’m getting to the point), I did find an upgrade to my theme I’ve been using. I love it becasuse it gives me an extra side bar. That’s HUGE for me.… Read the rest
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Final Twitter Post… for now :)
Posted on 14. Jun, 2008 by Kenny.
Okay, I’m going to wrap up my series of Twitter posts with this one, sharing one more resource and a cool story.
I noticed that a lot of the bloggers I follow on twitter have installed and application that sends a twitter feed when they write a blog. It’s a great add-on. Now for most of these people, I already subscribe to their blog feed, so I’m going to read their post at some point. This application though provided another way for me to get to their post. However, there are many people on Twitter that I don’t subscribe to their feed. Through this little application, I’ve found some new blogs that I now follow. So it’s a great tool. Using Google I found this great post here.… Read the rest
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My Twitter experience
Posted on 08. Jun, 2008 by Kenny.
I said in my previous post that I’m not quite the early adopter that I’d like to be. Matt McKee had been talking about it for well over a year before I finally decided to try it. The biggest reason I didn’t twitter was because I don’t text. Well, I didn’t. I had a data plan, so I paid out the nose to be able to email people… which would irritate me when they would text me instead. So for me, twitter was a cool idea but without text, it wasn’t as convenient.
When I was between jobs this last year, I didn’t have a data plan. I found myself sending text messages more often. I fount that text messages was actually the best way to stay in touch with some family and friends.… Read the rest
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ScribeFire: A blogging tool add-on for Firefox
Posted on 01. Jun, 2008 by Kenny.
Are you a blogger? Do you use Firefox?
May I recommend a pretty cool blogging tool?
I have a WordPress blog. Initially I would log into my WordPress admin page to write posts. I don’t any longer.
For the past 5-6 months, I’ve been using Windows Live Writer. It’s a great little program. It has some bells and whistles that make is stand out from the rest. However, the other day I came across Tony Morgan’s list of favorite Firefox add-ons. One of them was the ScribeFire add-on. It’s so cool! I’ve now written 6 or 7 new blog posts using it. It manages multiple blogs and is still much better than the WordPress admin editor. I still think Live Writer is a better program with more options (a lot of great photo effects and scalers).… Read the rest
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Show some love: Blog comments
Posted on 28. May, 2008 by Kenny.
A few months ago I helped my wife set up her own blog. Once it was up, she immediately wrote four or five posts. She added her website to her facebook profile and within hours the traffic started coming.
After a day or two, she came to me with a scowl on her face. She asked, “why are all these people visiting my site (I set her up with analytics), but no one is leaving any comments?”
I smiled and said, “join the club! Everyone who blogs wants more comments on their posts.”
It’s kinda just the way it is. Lots of people read, few respond. My question is simple. Why? Why is the percentage of readers who comment so small?… Read the rest
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