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Pastoral Blogging

So I’ve decided to be a blogger

Aug 24th, 2009 | By art rogers | Category: Blogging, Pastoral Blogging

For those of you still checking in faithfully over the last, what? Three weeks? You deserve to know what’s been going on.
I’ve been busy.
I know.  Life’s busy and if you’re going to be hosting your own site, then you owe it to the good folks who have come to depend on the sage advice, probing [...]



No more comment security code

Jun 10th, 2009 | By art rogers | Category: Blogging, Pastoral Blogging

I’ve had the comment security code in my comment field for a loooong time.  At one point it served to keep spam generating programs from commenting on my posts.  I think I can let other programs work behind the scenes to accomplish that now.
Why now?
Because I just had a brilliant piece of writing eaten by [...]



The fly by update

Nov 12th, 2008 | By art rogers | Category: Pastoral Blogging

Not avoiding you, dear reader.  Just busy as can be.
We are growing closer in our staffing search and this has taken a lot of time.
Of course, we have just hosted the BGCO in our fair city.  I went Tuesday for a while and had a couple of great conversations.
Since I usually blog at night and [...]



Wordpress 2.5 and plugins

Apr 8th, 2008 | By art rogers | Category: Blogging, Pastoral Blogging, Tech Stuff

If you are new to blogging or don’t know much about hosting a blog on your own site vs. blogspot or even wordpress free services, you can check out my rundown from last year that will give you the basics. There are a few changes of specific info from then, but just a few.
I [...]



Video Blogging

Jan 26th, 2008 | By art rogers | Category: Blogging, Live Blogging, Pastoral Blogging, Vietnam

How to create Video Blogs.

 
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Simple Blog

Dec 6th, 2007 | By art rogers | Category: Blogging, Pastoral Blogging

The plugin load on your WordPress blog.



Pastoral Blogging: Claiming feeds, switching readers and podcasting

Oct 20th, 2007 | By art rogers | Category: Blogging, Pastoral Blogging, Tech Stuff

I am considering switching from Bloglines to Google Reader as my primary rss feed reader. If you don’t know what that’s all about, read this post: Pastoral Blogging, Pt. 7 (I hereby stop numbering them and will name them from now on…)
Anyway, this is not really brought on by Bloglines at all. [...]



Art’s blogging (Pastoral Blogging 8 – this time it’s personal)

Jul 29th, 2007 | By art rogers | Category: Blogging, Pastoral Blogging

Let’s just get one more thing straight about my blogging, shall we?
I am not quitting, nor am I slowing down. I am shrugging off the political weight that I have carried and the public demands that such carries with it.
I actually am looking forward to blogging more in the near future. I am, [...]



Pastoral Blogging, Pt. 7

Jul 26th, 2007 | By art rogers | Category: Blogging, General Christian, Pastoral Blogging

I am cleaning out my feed reader. After a while, you just have to start pulling some of the things you don’t read all the time. Honestly, I track those blogs I really like in a folder of “live bookmarks” on the bookmark toolbar in Firefox. There are five there and I [...]



Pastoral Blogging, pt 6

Jul 9th, 2007 | By art rogers | Category: Blogging, General Christian, Pastoral Blogging

Or guidelines for blogging in the pastor’s world.

Make it easy on yourself. Go back and read the other posts in the pastoral blogging series and figure out how to set up a feedreader and what rss feeds are. Also, figure out how to set your articles to drop at preset times so you [...]