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4 Reasons to Blog

June 14, 2009 in Technology with 0 Comments

Blog 3As part of my continued evaluation of the blog, after a month, I have thought of a few key reasons why blogging is valuable. So here are the reasons that I have come up with so far.

1. Reflection

Writing thoughts down is a great method of personal reflection, having a blog has made me write stuff down that I have been thinking of, I have especially enjoyed reflecting each week on one thing that I have learnt from the Bible that week.

2. Discussion

Blogs are an excellent form of 2 way communication. I have enjoyed some great discussion on this blog, especially through “Mafia: Game of Sin?”.

3. Witnessing

Through this blog I have sometimes written things that aren’t directly related to the Bible, such as “5 Reasons to Tweet” and “Why use RSS?“. This has at times driven some random people to view this site, and some have even read my Testimony. I think if Christians are out there engaging with online communities, God will work through them.

4. Fun

It’s fun to write things, it’s fun to share ideas, it’s fun to share fun stuff. I really enjoy the experience of blogging, and if I didn’t enjoy it, I wouldn’t do it.

Those are my reasons so far… I’m sure that they will change over time, and yes, I will share some reasons not to blog as well.

Do you have any reasons (to blog) to add?

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Top 5 posts to date

June 10, 2009 in Technology with 0 Comments

Weird flamesAbout a month after I started blogging, I’m doing a quick evaluation over the next week about how this blogging thing is going. This is the first step of evaluation. 5 months left of testing blogging…

As a start to the evaluation process. Here are the top 5 most viewed posts so far.

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This blog will be…

May 12, 2009 in Technology with 0 Comments

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Here are some things that I hope to keep too while writing this blog. Some thought has gone into this and a lot of it comes from my own ideas, as well as the ideas of Dave Miers and Chris Guillebeau and his manifesto titled “279 days to overnight success”. Having said that,

This blog will be…

  • Concise (short and sweet and easy to read)
  • Positive (although not always)
  • Regular (a few times a week)
  • Colourful (because pictures are pretty)
  • God focused (that’s what is important)

I think that’s a good base to build this blog off. And as you know, it will be about technology, education and life in general, all with a Christian perspective.

Here are some topics that I hope to cover in the near future

  • Public school vs Private school
  • Opportunities to use online social networks to serve God
  • iPhones serving God
  • The use of reflection in ministry
  • Mafia: Game of sin?
  • Easy ways to make great videos
  • Expertise in gifts

As well as some random stuff from around the web.

6 months to an evaluation of this whole blogging thing!

Why Blog?

May 11, 2009 in Technology with 7 Comments

Here is the first post by Calum Henderson, on a blog.Keyboard

In mid-semester break of semester 1 in 2009 I stumbled across an article about twitter and usernames. Basically saying that you should sign up for your name now while it is still available. Made sense to me, so I scored twitter.com/calumhenderson. Then I started using twitter, and got a bit excited by the possibilities to share ideas immediately with millions of other people (even 100s would do fine). I then talked to a guy at my church called Dave Miers, and he has thought a lot about this stuff (see his blog here), and he also encouraged me to get a blog.

So over the past month I have been considering it, and I will be testing out this site for about 6 months. Sharing ideas about education, technology and life, all with a Christian perspective. Doing this so that there can be a collaboration on these ideas, and also for personal reflection and collection of my own thoughts.

Hope you enjoy it…

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