Adam McLane

Tag: blogging

  • The Blog Snap: Sometimes You Can’t Hold It In

    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…

  • Ad network launches

    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…

  • First Things First, How Most Mornings Start

    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.…

  • 3 Things Big Name Bloggers Need to Learn from the Little Guy

     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…

  • Bloggers: Turn off post excerpt

    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…