In our quest to make the Facebook Timeline cover photos that we shared with you last week, we came across many great photos and think that it would be a waste for us to only use them for the Facebook Timeline cover photos and not share them all with you. We have twenty five of our favorite photos free for you to download. This includes themes of city, beach, and nature.
In my last article I talked about how you can often sync pretty much all of your documents online for free by using different services. However if you are putting your documents on several services indiscriminately, things can get messy. You may find yourself looking for a document for your work or ministry, and have to search in several locations for it.
I don’t know about you, but I like free stuff. I also like the convenience of having things stored in the could and kept in sync across multiple computers. Recent changes in cloud syncing services now make storing all of my smaller files like documents in the cloud easier, and for free. Let me tell you how I did it. In my next article I’ll talk about some ways that you can make multiple services work to your benefit and some general concepts so that it can work for you, but first here are some services I use and some of those recent changes I was talking about.
We love sharing the resources that we make or come across online and a huge thing that has been a benefit for myself is my RSS feed. This living and breathing list is always in flux, adding some websites and removing others at least every month if not more frequently. Below is our current list as of this month that we are subscribed with and categorized for your use.
This week, we have been discussing some of the new features with the timeline redesign for Facebook Pages and how that can impact ministries. We have had examples of great uses of these features and what practically should be looked at for your page.
What we have not done is shown you how to do several of these things and we recognize that the Internet is a busy, tangled, and confusing mess that makes it hard to find how to do most of these things. Below we have a quick video tutorial on how to do some of these things.
[This article is part of the Publishing Your Own eBook series to help people start up their very own blog.]
The document is now in its first draft and we have something tangible. Hopefully you are excited by the sweat and time you have put into this thing and the end is in sight. But before we get there, we have a bit of formatting and editing that needs to happen first. Today we will talk about how the eBook can/should look and tomorrow we will look at the editing process, but honestly, if we do it well, these two processes will actually run parallel to each other.
[This article is part of the Publishing Your Own eBook series to help people start up their very own blog.]
We are finally at that the stage of writing. We know what the book will cover, we know the chapters’ topics, and how to write the best posts we can. The next several days, weeks, or months are going to be intensive and we need to keep on task to get through this process. Below are a few helpful hints to make the process smoother and easier.
[This article is part of the Publishing Your Own eBook series to help people start up their very own blog.]
To simply start writing and go at a document of this size would be unreasonable and ineffective. Writing the document is up next, but we need to organize our thoughts without investing too much time into it. That way, if we do not like an idea, we do not feel invested in it and too tied to keep it. This will help us make the best eBook possible.
[This article is part of the Publishing Your Own eBook series to help people start up their very own blog.]
This process of writing needs to be efficient and measurable. As bloggers, you may not be the best at either of these things. I know I do not track how much time I put into each blog every single time (though I know the goal of only putting in one hour an article). At the same time, I find myself regularly distracted with emails and know that I only have to hit a good 600 words each day. For some people maybe hoping to write a hundred page document in a month, that means you have to be writing at least 1,000 words that flow from page to page. No easy task.
[This article is part of the Publishing Your Own eBook series to help people start up their very own blog.]
We are all passionate about something in our lives and that passion is probably what drove you to want to write this eBook. Yesterday, we already decided that it was worth writing something and today we are going to decide what that something is going to be. Instead of going into this blindly, we need to press forward with purpose and a strategy so that we make the most of our time when putting together this eBook.
