SBC Voices
Mar 24th, 2008 | By art rogers | Category: UncategorizedOne of the interesting blogs that I have found – in my constant evaluation of what I spend my time reading – is the blog SBC Voices. Tony Kummer (Said at Southern & Proto Kummeropolis among others) has become quite prolific in his blogging. SBC Voices now tracks 289 blogs that are the words and thoughts of Southern Baptists across the blogosphere.
At the top of the page is a reader of what Tony calls “the best” of the articles from the SBC blogosphere and below that is a box that simply runs the latest offerings.
Below that, apparently, is a mock up of March Madness, called Blog Madness, in which you might vote for your favorite SBC Blogs. Believe it or not, yours truly is still considered worthy of a vote or two. You can find me in the Midwest Region, along with some friends: Timmy Brister, Micah Fries, Kevin Bussey, Les Puryear and others.
What impresses me about the set up is the voting mechanism that Tony has set up within the post itself. You can vote in each of the four regions and it will reveal the results without reloading the page or taking you to another page.
Tony: Consider this an invitation to tell us about this polling mechanism. We like it.
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Thanks for the mention.
I’ve been developing SBC Voices for several months trying to provide a central place to hear what Southern baptists are blogging about. I’ve the blogs listed out by several categories (by state, by denominational employees, by pastors, by women, by internationals) so readers can easily get a sense of the SBC chatter. The nearly 300 feeds update automatically.
The “Baptist Buzz” feature is just my attempt to narrow down the top handful of posts each day with convention wide interest. I try to scan the feeds once a day.
The polls run on the Word Press plugin “WP Polls.” I just created multiple polls and inserted them into the post. You can define the number of selections and several other features. It even tracks the voters so I can tell who’s cheating and who’s not.
The tournament has been fun to watch!