Tag: blogging

  • NT Wright on Blogging

    NT Wright on Blogging/Social Media from Bill Kinnon on Vimeo.

  • One Educator/Author’s Use of Blogging

    N. Gregory Mankiw is an economics professor at Harvard and author of leading economics textbooks. He has also been blogging for a few years now. What he has done is map his blog posts to his textbook. Students can read the book and then use the map to find blog posts he has written that…

  • Social Media Strategies: Blogging, Facebook, and Twitter (Webinar)

    Alban Institute: Social Media Strategies: Blogging, Facebook, and Twitter (Webinar) Wednesday, July 22, 2009 2:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -04:00, New York) Join popular blogger, Twitterer, and author Carol Howard Merritt and the Indianapolis Center for Congregations Technology Director Aaron Spiegel for a look at today’s most popular ways to forge online connections with…

  • America’s Newest Profession: Bloggers for Hire

    Wall Street Journal: America's Newest Profession: Bloggers for Hire In America today, there are almost as many people making their living as bloggers as there are lawyers. Already more Americans are making their primary income from posting their opinions than Americans working as computer programmers or firefighters. Paid bloggers fit just about every definition of…

  • Blogs: A Window to Our Souls

    Christianity Today: Blogs: A Window to Our Souls Nearly three years ago, Alan Jacobs wrote in Books and Culture, "Right now, and for the foreseeable future, the blogosphere is the friend of information but the enemy of thought." First drawn to blogs for news, Jacobs hoped the blogosphere could become a forum for developing and…

  • Six Apart CEO: Down Economy Boosts Blogging

    Wired: Six Apart CEO: Down Economy Boosts Blogging If you're looking for something — anything! — that might actually benefit from the present stinking rotting corpse of an economy, try blogging companies. I caught up with Six Apart CEO Chris Alden over a Belgian beer in downtown Washington, DC. The company is one of the…

  • Blogging: A New Approach to Exec Recruiting

    Business Week: Blogging: A New Approach to Exec Recruiting Yes, we tried the traditional approaches when looking for a CEO for Adaptive Path. But we realized that social networking was a better way to go. Like many small business owners, I didn't start a company in order to run a business—I started it to do…

  • Light Blogging Ahead

    I’m leaving for the Presbyterian Church USA General Assembly in San Jose tomorrow. It is all I can do to get things squared away here at home before I leave and participate in last-minute conference calls and emails. I don’t expect things to be much better in San Jose. I expect to keep linking stories…

  • Banned in China?

    Several days ago, I was surfing the net when I came across a post by Harvard economist Dani Rodrik called Can you read me in China? He writes: A former reader from China e-mails me saying that he can no longer access my blog. I wonder if that is a general problem. If you live…

  • “Jogging is Like Blogging” Mark Roberts

    Mark D. Roberts: Jogging is Like Blogging, Part 1 and Jogging is Like Blogging, Part 2. Last week, Mark Roberts did these two posts on why long-term bloggers stay with it. I thought he had some good insights. In part 2, he offers these four traits of long-term bloggers: First, enduring bloggers must have a…