Within the Christian blogging communities, there are three things that need to get attention by the bloggers: quality and unique content, networking instead of spamming on social media, and legitimate, high-quality images that compliment posts. Of these three things, the images issue has been least addressed but may speak the most into the ethics of the Christian faith as well as bring in the greatest amount of traffic.
Each week, we scour the web for great articles on youth ministry, social media, and blogging and offer the best of them to you. Here is what we have found to be good reads this week. If you find something you like, let us know what and leave them a comment on their blog.
Nearly every week, we look for hilarious things on the Internet and try to bring you a little bit of humor to set you up right for the weekend. This week is one of those fun Christmas light displays set to Gangnum Style by Psy. Enjoy!
Each week, we scour the web for great articles on youth ministry, social media, and blogging and offer the best of them to you. Here is what we have found to be good reads this week. If you find something you like, let us know what and leave them a comment on their blog.
We did a little pull across all of our social network platforms asking you which eBook you wanted to see come out first and you guys voted for 10 Tech Gadgets Your Church Needs For Christmas. Now, it should be noted that it literally came down to one vote that made the different and so we will be making an eBook for 10 Things NOT To Do On Social Media in the near future.
For now, enjoy our latest eBook for you to download after the jump. Also, if you love it, leave a comment below or send out a tweet, Facebook share, or post on your Google+ wall and share the love!
If you are not using images with most of the posts on your blog, let me encourage you to change this routine. The focus of a post should always be on great content, but a photo can take your post from good to great. People are visually oriented with advertisements, television, and Pinterest, so you need to adhere to this culture shift.
Below, we have a couple of tips to find and make great images for your blog posts.
I have come to recognize that we need a bit more visibility for my youth ministry in front of our congregation, so I put together this little promotional video with After Effects CS 4, a green screen, and my Canon T3i. Would love to here what you think of it.
