Comments on: 12 Ways to Improve Your Blog by Serving Your Readers

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Caffeinated Thoughts - » Twenty Items of Interest (v. 16) — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:53:30 +0000

[...] HT: Abraham Piper – 22 Words [...]

By: Ray Li

Ray Li — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:28:01 +0000

Those thoughts were very helpful. I’m going to really rethink how I blog.

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Twenty Items of Interest (v. 16) « Caffeinated Thoughts — Thu, 01 May 2008 00:52:21 +0000

[...] HT: Abraham Piper – 22 Words [...]

By: Shane Vander Hart

Shane Vander Hart — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:09:21 +0000

Great advice… I’m changing my feed to include the entire post. You made a great point with that.

By: C.

C. — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:55:32 +0000

I liked the comment about making pastors/theological blogs more women friendly. But more than that, I would prefer that people make them PRACTICAL. As an MA myself, one thing I learned quickly is that knowing somehting is nice, but if you cant do anything with it, then its useless knowledge.

By: Zach Nielsen

Zach Nielsen — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:21:41 +0000

A -

It was good to meet and chat a bit at T4G – keep up the good and creative work. I dig it.

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:38:50 +0000

Lack of experience is not an indication of lack of wisdom. Personally I find Abraham to be a very insightful blogger and one who’s advice is not quickly thrown out but is well thought through.
Keep up the good work.

By: William

William — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:46:32 +0000

“That post is a good reason why I wish we had more than 35 seconds to meet and say hi. I agree with almost none of it (well, maybe almost half of it),”

I agree with Frank…

While there are some good things listed, maybe this should have been written by someone who has been blogging for a bit longer time.

Frank, so when is your post coming?

By: Abraham Piper

Abraham Piper — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:48:48 +0000

I’m curious now, Frank.

Maybe you should write a post, so I can know what you’re talking about.

But you’re right, it would’ve been better to get it all figured out over lunch.

By: Frank Turk

Frank Turk — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:13:07 +0000

That post is a good reason why I wish we had more than 35 seconds to meet and say hi. I agree with almost none of it (well, maybe almost half of it), but I this the discussion would be edifying and vigorous.

By: Matthew Ng

Matthew Ng — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:56:29 +0000

Great great reminder on the purpose of blogging. I really like your last point which is my motivation for blogging; to ultimately bring glory to God. :)

By: caljohnson

caljohnson — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:55:37 +0000

Extremely helpful, especially links and suggestions of others from which to learn. Thanks for your insight and for being practical. Sorry you didn’t win the bed from Prairie Home Companion!

By: Abraham Piper

Abraham Piper — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:29:18 +0000

Brauns, That was Seth Godin. I also recommend Problogger.

By: Abraham Piper

Abraham Piper — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:26:31 +0000

Denny,

You can select to syndicate your whole feed on your dashboard, go to Settings > Reading.

It’s the 4th or 5th thing down.

By: cdbrauns

cdbrauns — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:24:30 +0000

At the Band of Bloggers you mentioned someone you read about blogging – - – what was his name again?

By: shawnda

shawnda — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:24:05 +0000

I’m always challenged by your thoughts on blogging!! There were several more challenging points for me, and overall a very good challenge to all! Do you offer grace to those who weren’t brought up in the home of parents who happen to both be incredibly smart (and therefore produce very smart children!!)? ; ) I hope so!!! : )

By: Denny Burk

Denny Burk — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:59:22 +0000

By the way, how do you change syndication options to show full posts? Does anybody know? I use WordPress.

By: Denny Burk

Denny Burk — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:58:28 +0000

Great post, bro! Thanks!

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:48:56 +0000

good advice. I just changed my syndication options to allow full posts. Hadn’t thought about how self-serving that could be.
:)

By: Lance

Lance — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:48:05 +0000

I have a lot to learn about this ever-reforming part of me, so appreciate the tips.

Especially appreciated the “processing” tip, as I’ve likely posted too soon, too often, rather than giving self 24-48 hours to process more before publishing.

Liked also the tip on bite-sized posts. I’ve seen some posts that you have to scroll several screens down. Wish I had that kind of time to read, but few of us do.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:21:17 +0000

Quick! Add an apostrophe -m to your last comment!

;-)

By: Abraham Piper

Abraham Piper — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:58:54 +0000

Whew, Jake, that was close. Thanks!

I kinda off my game today.

By: gospelcenteredmusings

gospelcenteredmusings — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:52:26 +0000

can’t post your your own article, too many words, ha!

By: Chelsea

Chelsea — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:47:33 +0000

Very good advice. I must admit, I struggle to find the healthy tension (I think) a blog should have, somewhere between poignant and personal. Would it be more affective as either poignant or personal? Yours seems to have a good balance, but many that I read are strictly for teaching.

For me, it seems that the personal entries get more responses. This is most likely because my mother is my number one reader. I would love to be one of those bloggers who arouses great spiritual and theological and moral discussions.

I, too, love blogging, and I throughout the day I think of many things I’d love to write about. But how much is too much? Sometimes I fear that blogging too much could come across as self-absorbed.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:42:19 +0000

Add a period at the end of the first sentence before your mom sees this.