The Reynolds Family is 1 man trying to live with 4 beautiful girls who insist dolls are more fun than dirt.
// December 7th, 2006 // No Comments » // Career, Ministry, Writing
Everywhere and nowhere is the best answer. Truth is I haven’t had much to say. Been focusing a ton of my energy on finding a big whitetail to that will bring some temporal joy.
// September 22nd, 2006 // 1 Comment » // Design, Ministry, Web Ministry, Writing
This is idea #1 in my series on web ministry. Follow the trail to #2 here.
Much of what is required in web ministry is creating new channels with which to connect with people. I am of the opinion that you must go where the people are. Like the roots of a hardy plant should our projects in web ministry be.
One root I have discovered and predict will grow in popularity and traffic is the Squidoo lens. Squidoo’s own definition:
A lens is one person’s view on a topic that matters to her. It’s an easy-to-build, single web page that can point to blogs, favorite links, RSS feeds, Flickr photos, Google maps, eBay auctions, CafePress designs, Amazon books or music, and thousands of products from hundreds of other trusted merchants. You can pick whatever content you want to put in your lens to bring context to your topic. Then, when someone is looking for recommended information, fast, your lens gets him started and sends him off in the right direction. It’s a place to start, not finish.
This means you can leverage a platform that receives more traffic and has more credibility with the search engines than your own ministry site. It is a way for people to initially find your ministry distinctives (speaker, programs, beliefs, unique attributes) and become more familiar with your organization over time.
As an example, I created http://www.squidoo.com/chuckswindoll/ in order to promote Chuck Swindoll. The page was created on 07/12/2006. As of 09/22/2006,
// August 1st, 2006 // No Comments » // Business, Reading, Writing
Glenn Lucke at the Common Grounds Online Blog has an interesting summary of a Chris Anderson piece from publishers weekly:
Would-Be Writers:
- Statistics on Books Sales in the US 950,000 titles out of 1.2 million tracked by Nielsen Bookscan sold fewer than 99 copies
- Another 200,000 sold fewer than 1,000 copies
- Only 25,000 sold more than 5,000 copies
- The average book in America sells about 500 copies
- Only 10 books sold more than a million copies
// July 26th, 2006 // No Comments » // Business, Leadership, Management, Ministry, Programming, Writing
Tony Morgan has a great little list of 49 ways to blog better. In my view, these kinds of lists are great for newbies like me, as well as old hats who have been doing this for awhile.
// January 31st, 2006 // No Comments » // Business, Design, Management, Ministry, Miscellaneous, Venture Capital, Writing
I received an email yesterday today from Truewell which had my name and 536 others in the “To:” field, effectively exposing all their wouldbe leads to one another. I post it here as an example of the kind of simple mistake companies make before ever even getting the relationship off the ground. Also note the spelling and grammar mistakes throughout.
