Catholic Promotion

This is a 12 part Teleclass series with Jeffrey Hedquist. The class is free and open to anyone who wants to learn how to produce Catholic commericials for radio. The classes are held once a month by phone.

Here at last is the link to the recording of the first class. Right click on audio box to save.

Optional Radio Class Assignment

1. Get a sheet of paper and create two columns. In one column list as many negative emotions that you can think of and in the second column as many positive ones.Write what your topic is about that you want to write a commercial for.Set a timer or stopwatch for two minutes and starting with the first emotion… write whatever comes to mind.Select the next emotion and do the same. Continue down the list -Using a stop watch or timer - set it for two minutes and write about your topic using the first emotion on the list. When the time is up - continue with the next emotion.2.  Make a list of the fives senses - touch, smell, etc and write for two minutes using each sense as the basis for your topic.

Finding Blog Treasure

This is a posting in progress. I am trying to add at least one good link a day for awhile.  I’m actually doing this for me… but if anyone else makes their way to my little corner of the world… perhaps they will find it helpful as well.

1.) So here is my first.  Chris Brogran’s 50 Ways to Take your Blog to the Next Level

This is a great article. Succint… with enough fuel to truly take you to the next level.

2.) Do you have a blog but don’t know how to put the feed graphic with its proper rss url so people can click on it to sign up? How to even find what your silly feed url is? I was stumped.. until I found this posting.

Syndication for WordPress and Drupal by Alfred Armstrong. Yeah.  It is written clearly - simply - and provides this valuable piece of information.

Your WordPress site generates feeds automatically: enter your homepage URL and add “?feed=rss”,

So for instance - my domain name for this site is catholicpromotion.com  I just add the ?feed=rss to that link and presto.. magic.. and I have the link.   http://catholicpromotion.com?feed=rss

The whole code I used to put up the graphic was this.

<a href=”http://poorclare.org?feed=rss”><img
src=”http://poorclare.org/i/rss.jpg” width=35 height=35 border=0> Subscribe</a></p>

which made it look like this:

(I also had to find the rss image.. save it … upload it (ftp) to my server in order for the page to show it.) that’s all for another tutorial.

You will want to read his whole article for this though.. this was just a tidbit - to let you know its worth going to!

3.) Here are a few pages with RSS icons….  you might have to resize using a graphic program.

GTMCKnight

4. This just in.  A great post on Mistakes by Leo Babauta ! A good look before you leap posting. 10 Mistakes that could be killing your blog.    These are the points that stood out the most for me.

1. Less-than-useful posts.  Leo Babauta talks about how people find your blog  through a search engine and then leave because there is nothing there.  Or perhaps he says there is something there .. but who can find it?

4. Not displaying your best posts.  I’ve been noticing this feature on the top sites. They have a listing of their top posts in a prominent place on the sidebar. I just have to figure out how to do that.  When I find that out - I’ll come back and let you know.

10. Boring or uninformative headlines - I am sort of hooked into advertising - so I can really vouch for this one.  The top copywriters will spend 90% of their time coming up with powerful headlilnes.

5.   66 Successful Bloggers and What they can teach you

This post is awesome! This one will keep you reading and growing and figuring stuff out for a lifetime I expect. You can just go down the list and check one out a day.

6. And.. I found the above link from this great page.   It looks like I won’t have time to do anything else with my life but read and study about blogging. Uh-oh! I wonder if I’ll need a 12 step program for this?

Best Internet Marketing Blog Posts of 2007

7. Here’s a new one. This will keep you checking out new blogs for a while. Top 100 Social Media & Internet Marketing Bloggers

Here is a good site for finding out what you can and can’t do - when creating a post for your blog. I haven’t read it yet myself… but…. it was STRONGLY recommended by Don Smith at Seattle PI as a must read for bloggers. At least a must know where to go for help.

It’s free. It’s online for easy reference. What more do you need?

EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers

It’s Thursday morning a little after 7:30. I got up this morning… took the dog out with Sr. Colleen and then snuck into my office to do a few minutes of early morning work. I had about 20 minutes - enough to decide it was time to get started with this blog. I already had the domain.. so it was just a matter of going to Wordpress.org… download the latest blog program.  Create a database on my server… make a few changes on the config.php file, upload the blog.. and we’re ready to go.

Now we have had Adoratation, morning prayer, breakfast.. and I have 7 minutes to write my first post. I’m over the time.. got to zip to Morning prayer…