Ministry 2.0 | John Saddington Break-Out
October 12th, 2009 by matt
4 Ingredients for a Good Blog
- Have a schedule
- Less about passion & more about discipline
- Have goals
- Team effort
10 Types of Blog Posts
- Date specific | ex. every 1st of the month
- Interviews
- Super Simple Posts (SSP) | Brainless but provocative
- Series | ex. anything over 200 words break-out into a series
- Dissertation | 1000-3000 words ex. walkthrough of a service or product
- Guest Post | Have someone else write a post for your blog
- Stats & Updates | How the blog is doing
- Give-Away | giving back to the community through prizes
- Change-Up | Something completely different from your usual posts
- Humor | Funny videos, images, etc.
Look at your blog as your story, it has to be something that’s compelling and worth the read. Think about your audience when taking the length of a blog post into consideration. Example. people that have more of a techy brain tend to be more ADD and jump around a lot. It would be good to have very short blog posts when they are your target audience.
Being Christians, we should set an example for other bloggers. Use best practices when it comes not only to language and content but also with copyright material. It’s best to use Creative Commons or Flickr when using images.
“Grace is giving things away for free without expecting anything in return.”
John Saddington
