I came across some fairly simple advice from Chris Brogan on making content sharable.
It’s pretty basic, but a good reminder to make sharability a priority:
(and look… it worked… I’m sharing it)
Someday My Ship Will Come In
…It will just be filled with limestone.
Watched 3 big ships come through Duluth last weekend.
Meet Your Church’s New Director of Social Media
I’d like to introduce you to Chris.
She manages social media interaction at your church.
Chris saw an exasperated mother’s posts on her Facebook feed, and offered to watch the kids last Friday night.
Chris uses her WordPress blog to keep a public journal of what she’s finding in her daily… ok semi-weekly… Bible reading.
Chris’ tweets got the word out about a new family that needs help unloading their moving van.
Chris live-blogged last week’s sermon on her iPad.
Here’s the thing… Chris isn’t on staff at the church. She isn’t even in an official volunteer role. She doesn’t have an account on your website CMS, and she doesn’t know the login for your church Twitter account. But, whether she knows it or not, she is leading your church’s social media interaction.
So while your office staff debates whether you should establish a Facebook page, or a group; As you pour over each carefully crafted 140 character sermon nugget; As you stand in the digital pulpit and preach to the virtual masses; don’t forget about Chris and what REAL ministry is.
Creating a Basic WordPress Plugin
This post includes some sample code, and web links for a presentation I put together for the Minneapolis/Saint Paul WordPress Users Group. The session is an introduction to creating a WordPress Plugin. This post is intended to be a place to find the resources and code used in the demonstration, but I will attempt to explain what it all means in this post. Continue reading “Creating a Basic WordPress Plugin”
Pic of the Day – Olympic Park
While in Atlanta, we walked through Centenial Olympic Park Plaza. It was kind of fun or us. 14 years ago, we watched the Atlanta Olympics while on our Honeymoon.
Birds Have Hatched
We’ve been avoiding doing any work on the north-east corner of our house, as we have been watching a mother-bird set up a nest this spring. A couple years ago, another nest had been abandoned in the same tree. We didn’t want the same thing to happen this year.
I looked out my bedroom window today and saw that we have 4 new robins in our tree.
Life’s simple pleasures.
Pic of the day – Target Field
I got out to Target Field last week.
I really want to plug a WII into that left field screen!!
A flight around town
A friend of mine took me flying last weekend. We were able to fly over the house. I saw 4 little dots jumping around on our front sidewalk to say “hi”.
Here is a view heading back into Stillwater.
The Journey Begins
Just registered for the Twin Cities Marathon. Training doesn’t really start until the summer, but I’ll keep you posted. It gives me a new goal for the summer!
Run!
On the other hand, this could add a whole new dimension to my training!
