While blogging is a great way to begin in the new media, new media technologies such as podcasts and vidcasts offer your ministry an opportunity to take pre-existing content, such as sermons, beyond the walls of your physical church. Jeff VanderGiessen of Mars Hill Church will give you an overview of the technologies available to your ministry and tell you how your ministry can begin employing these technologies for a world wide outreach.
Excellent site layout and design can be a great boon for a blog that hopes to build a regular readership and to have maximal impact. Design just is the marriage of form and function, content and layout. It can help you deliver your message more clearly and develop rapport with your readership. But, buyer beware! It can also be a gargantuan waste of time and resources. Kevin will share with you the essentials of good design: three principles, three Design Desiderata, that will position you perfectly to avoid design pitfalls and move you to entirely new levels of success.
Writing technique and style changes depending on the medium. Like writing a thought piece for a journal is unlike writing a thought piece for a newspaper, so also is writing a blog post different in style and technique as well as the expectation of the readers reading the piece. La Shawn will teach you some of the secrets to developing a clean, crisp, compelling writing technique for blogging.
Finding the Platform to Meet Your Needs
You have decided to enter the new media and become a Godblogger, but you do not know where to begin; no problem! This is the session designed especially for beginners. Dustin Steeve will teach you the difference between the various blogging platforms and offer your insights as to how you can identify which blogging platform, tools, and extra-features work best for you!
The case for Blog Euthanasia
There was a time when everyone had a blog. Now there are thousands of blogs abandoned on the internet. People have discovered that blogging is hard work, and most individuals don’t want to put in the effort. Since when did new media equal one’s malformed thoughts badly edited? A blog should be a product which grows out of the cultivation of the intellect. You should be concerned about the longevity and significance of your project if you think more about driving traffic to your site than you do about its content.