5 Benefits of Blogging for Pastors

Today’s guest post is by Paul Peterson, lead pastor at Northgate Free Methodist Church, located in Batavia, New York. If you’d like to be a guest contributor to CCP, use the contact form to let me know. –CM

I’ve been bloggging since November 2006 and, as a pastor, I have discovered some GREAT benefits as a result of blogging.

Here are my 5 benefits of blogging for pastors: Read more

February 28, 2007 · Filed Under Blogging, Church Marketing

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RockinBlue: My First Free, Public WordPress Theme

wordpress theme rockinblue I’m thrilled to announce that I just released my first free and public WordPress theme called RockinBlue.

We’ll see how this week goes but I’m probably going to be blogging on my experience of creating the theme soon. Up until now, I’ve really only tweaked and tinkered with others’ themes. But this one’s mine. :-)

I’d like to say a BIG thank you to Brian Gardner for his awesome help and patience.

If you’d like to see a demo of the theme, click here. [Also, at CoryMiller.com]
If you’d like to download the theme to use on your blog, click here [zip].

For support and questions about the theme, please address them here.

Update: Thanks for Shawn Wallace for his help “widgetizing” my theme. Also, check out his Worshippl.us site.

February 13, 2007 · Filed Under Blogging, Church Marketing, WordPress

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Blogging Tip: Best Blogging Quote of The Year

One of my regular blog reads is Daniel’s Daily Blog Tips … he recently posted a great interview with a wildly popular blogger named Liz Strauss of Successful-Blog and one quote just blared out to me with wisdom.

Giving her advice to fellow bloggers, she said: “Breathe. Know that the Internet has no eraser.”

I nominate it for the best blogging advice of the year … and it’ll probably not be unseated for me all year long.

As she appropriately continues in her quote, “Your children, your grandchildren, your future spouse, your future boss, and your future enemy will see what you write eventually.”

Watch what you say. Even though the web is “virtual,” it’s really not. It’s quite permanent. The web has a memory. It gets indexed in search engines, your stuff gets posted on other sites and blogs … and people will find it.

Good advice, great advice, actually, for Christ-followers seeking to make a difference by using blogs … Thanks, Liz!

February 11, 2007 · Filed Under Blogging, Blogging Tips, Church Marketing

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The Blogging Church Book Promo Video

I’m excited to eventually read The Blogging Church written by Brian Bailey and Terry Storch, but frankly, I’d really love a review copy! (Hint, hint, cough, cough: Jossey-Bass, Brian, Terry, Leadership, whoever.)

Anyway, check out this promo video on the book with Brian and Terry.

February 6, 2007 · Filed Under Blogging, Books

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Blogging Tip: Hand Google Your Blog’s Sitemap on a Platter

Google likes me …

I’ve finally gotten into the good graces of Mr. Google (I’m out of the “sandbox”) … now more than half of my traffic is coming from Google search keywords. Amazing. I love it.

THANK YOU GOOGLE!

Anyway, one of the best ways to get listed in Google is to create and submit a sitemap through their Google Webmaster Tools.

January 16, 2007 · Filed Under Blogging, Blogging Tips, Church Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, WordPress

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