This morning I was reading an appeal from a ministry. The crazy thing about this appeal was that it wasn’t clear what it was asking me to do. Will you join us? Will you help us?
I thought to myself… How can I join you when I live so far away? What is it that [...]
For a few weeks now (eternity in my library of ideas) Patti and I have talked about having a YMX blog so that our blogs weren’t quite so clogged up with stuff about the company and/or youth ministry stuff for others.
It’s not that we don’t love youth ministry or youth workers coming to our site, [...]
I know exactly how Chris Folmsbee feels. Chris is Chief Ministry officer at YouthFront and President of Sonlife. He’s a class act guy and is an excellent leader.
Part of being a leader is sticking your neck out. And Chris has done that. He put the nail the coffin of a great, but dying youth ministry [...]
For at 6 months I’ve been toying with an idea that launched today.
Networking youth ministry bloggers is nothing new to me. In fact, back in 2004-2005 this led to the creation of the “YS forum members blogring” which later morphed into what is today Youth Ministry Exchange.
As I’ve gotten to know much more about [...]
I start each day pretty much the same way. Here’s a list of things I try to do in the morning. The days of grabbing a cup of coffee and reading the morning paper are long, long gone.
Download e-mail. This usually takes just a couple of seconds as almost everything I get is spam. Even [...]
I have a mixture of blogs that I read. Some of them, I am their only subscriber and others have thousands of people who read their stuff every day. Seth Godin’s blog apparently has more readership than 95% of all magazines in the United States. In doing this every day I’ve made a couple of [...]
With the tremendous increase in feed reader users and mobile blog reading… I really have to insist on this. You must make sure your feed is sending out the full post and not an except. (Called summary in WordPress)
Why? The reality is that, as a blogger, you want your readers to actually read what you [...]
