A couple of days ago I added a Google Search to my blog.
Here are a couple of helpful links on how to do it:
I ended up using #2.
This was one of the biggest things I missed at Blogger. (At the top of Blogspot.com blogs, you can search that blog which is great).
If you are
new to reading blogs, I will tell you more about why you might want to use a RSS_aggregator like NewsGator Online (Free version).
[Update: March 2008, I use Google Reader now].
Summary of what NewsGator does for me:
In the previous post I placed all the 44 church leadership blogs that I am currently "subscribed to." You can scroll through them and see what’s of interest to you. But there is an easier way. I check my NewsGator Online (Free version) website each day and it gives me the headlines of all the new posts. You can save stuff to read later in your "clippings." After scanning them, I click "read all posts" so that only new ones show up next time. Newsgator works well. I recommend it. It takes a few minutes to get set up but it is worth it once you start using it.
Story of how I came to use NewsGator:
When I was first blogging, I went through and searched for like-minded blogs. I looked on other people’s blog rolls, etc. I saved them all in a folder in my favorites. Then I would browse through them once a month and see if there was anything of interest. But I would end up re-reading things that I had already read. And some people would not have posted anything new. And sometimes the conversation was already over by the time I read the post. A couple times, authors offered free books to the first people who would email so-and-so. Well, I always missed that.
That is the great thing about having something like NewsGator. (I’m happy to have other people recommend their newsreader if they recommend it). Here is Wikipedia’s explanation of what an aggregator is and here is a list of all of them available.
Basically, with NewsGator, you just go and search for the blogs that you want to subscribe to. So you put in "Jesus Creed" and Scot McKnight’s Jesus Creed blog appears and you click "Subscribe." Or you can simply paste in the URL (web address) of the blog and NewsGator finds the feed for it and subscribes you. You can always unsubscribe. Then whenever you open your NewsGator webpage, it will tell you the headlines of all the posts since you last checked it.
I recommend picking a few blogs and trying it.
Note: I had subscribed to a bunch of news sites like CNN, NY Times, Fortune Magazine, etc. but they have too many posts each day so I decided not to subscribe to them.
Below I have put the church lea
dership blogs that I currently "subscribe to." I check my NewsGator Online (Free version) website each day and it gives me the headlines of all the new posts.
If you are new to reading blogs, I will tell you more about why you might want to use a RSS_aggregator like NewsGator in the next post.
I have not put many blogs on my permanent blogroll on the side of this page (only the firmly established Andrew Jones, Scot McKnight, and Out of Ur) because the blogs vary so much in quality and frequency but I thought I would share all of them here. Some of the people I know personally, some I don’t. I have put a few quick notes below.
I would be happy to hear your recommendations on others I/we should check out.
Aaron Flores – theVoiz
Andrew Jones – TallSkinnyKiwi – emerging church leading blogger in New Zealand I think
Andy Rowell – Church Leadership Conversations – Me!
B.J. Woodworth – what’s your wood worth? – I know BJ from Pittsburgh with Senior Capstone Trip. He is a church planting pastor of an emerging church.
Ben Witherington – NT Scholar at Asbury.
Bill Arnold- Poet in Motion; image sound theology
Bill Kinnon – achievable leadership
Bob Robinson – Vanguard Church
Brian McLaren – well known author of a New Kind of Christian and A Generous Orthodoxy and an emerging church movement spokesman
Byron K. Borger – Hearts & Minds BookNotes – I know Byron from Senior Capstone Trip. He is the owner of a great bookstore. This is a great blog about books.
C. Wes Daniels – gathering in light – Ph.D. student at Fuller under Ryan Bolger. See Ryan’s blog below.
Chris Monroe – Paradoxology
Christianity Today at the Movies: Reviews
Christianity Today Magazine
Church Marketing Sucks – trying to improve church marketing but pointing out that much of it is typically not good.
Dan Kimball – Vintage Faith – author of Emerging Church and Emerging Worship
David Fitch – the great giveaway – author of new book The Great Giveaway
Doug Pagitt’s Blog – Emerging Church movement high profile person and author of Preaching Re-Imagined.
Ed Cyzewski – inamirrordimly
Ed Young resources – CreativePastors – influential gigachurch pastor from Texas
emergent-us
emergingchurch.info
Gavin Richardson – Hit the Back Button to Move Fwd
Generous Orthodoxy ThinkTank
Harvard Business School Working Knowledge
J.R. Briggs – brokenstainedglass – friend from Taylor University who is a young adult pastor at a megachurch in the Philadelphia area. He has also written a book.
Jim Plueddemann – The Missionary Iconoclast – professor of missions at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
John Mark Rutter – Theological Ruminator – new pastor
Kem Meyer on Less Clutter & Noise – she has Granger Community Church connections. I think she is an employee there.
Kirk Bartha – from theocity to lovelocity – friend from Regent College who is a prophet, pray-er and preacher.
Lauren Winner – superb author and infrequent blogger
Leadership Blog: Out of Ur
Leadership journal and resources for church leaders
Mark Waltz | …because People Matter – author and a pastor at Granger Community Church
Michael Bird and Joel Willitts- Euangelion – New Testament scholar in Scotland and NT scholar at North Park University in Chicago
nextwave News
Rick Warren – wrote a couple of books
Ryan Bolger – TheBolgBlog – professor at Fuller Theological Seminary and author of Emerging Churches
Scot McKnight – Jesus Creed – professor of New Testament at North Park and prolific author
Scott Collins-Jones – SCJToday – I know Scot from Senior Capstone Trip in Philadelphia. He is a Ph.D. student at Princeton Theological Seminary in theology and a PCUSA pastor in Philadelphia.
Steve Taylor – e~mergent kiwi – author of Out of Bounds Church and lives in New Zealand
Tim Stevens – LeadingSmart – author and a pastor at Granger Community Church
Tony Jones – Theoblogy – author and Emergent Village coordinator
Tony Morgan | one of the simply strategic guys – author and a pastor at Granger Community Church
