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Using Social Media For Campus Ministry

Check out this great article Brian Barela wrote for his blog about leveraging technology and social media for ministry on college campuses. Leveraging Technology for Campus Ministry I think he makes a great point by distinguishing between the different types of communication and when they might be appropriate in using Facebook Fan Pages vs. Group [...]

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5 New Year’s Resolutions for Bloggers

Check out this great post at Crublogging.com 5 New Year’s Resolutions for Bloggers I think it’s spot on, and it’s five quick points that every blogger should be thinking about to improve the level of audience engagement on their blog.

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Facebook Share Button: Let Others Share Your Blog Across Facebook

A really simple way to let others spread the word about your blog, and to integrate your blog into Facebook is with a Share button. With a Share button, anyone, including yourself, can instantly share your blog posts on their Face book profile page, news feed, and wall. Once they’re sharing, your content has the [...]

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Anti Spam and Security Plugins for Your WordPress Blog

Spam happens, and it can happen to your blog. Just like your email, your blog comments can get spammed. And just like your computer, blogs have security issues too. Here are a couple articles to help you deal with it. Top 5 WordPress AntiSpam Plugins Security and AntiSpam Plugins for WordPress Of the plugins listed [...]

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Removing the underline from links in the footer

Have you been troubled by the underline that shows up under any link that you place in the footer section of your WordPress blog when using Thesis 1.6? Well, here is a solution: When logged in to your dashboard select Custom File Editor from under the Thesis Options menu Add the following line of code [...]

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Creating a Facebook Fanpage Widget

Note: This guide assumes that you’re using Thesis 1.6. Also, since Facebook seems to change things around every month or so, this guide might be out of date by the time you’re done reading it. This guide is current to Facebook as of January 7th, 2010. A Facebook Fanpage, not to be confused with a [...]

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Thesis Openhook Plugin – Making the Thesis Theme Even Better

The Thesis theme from DIYthemes makes customizing your WordPress blog much simplier, and the Thesis Openhook plugin takes that easy customization to the next level. I highly recommend this plugin along with the Thesis theme. Many of the tutorials on Mediaforministry assume that you’re using both Thesis and Thesis Openhook. As implied by it’s name, [...]

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Thesis Theme for WordPress

The Thesis theme for WordPress, by DIYThemes, is a great tool for any WordPress blog. A lot of the tutorials we’ve been posting assume that you’re using Thesis. One of the things that makes Thesis so great is that Thesis makes it pretty easy to customize your blog. So now, you can spend more time [...]

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Adding Video to Your Blog Posts and the Youtuber Plugin

Here’s a step by step guide to adding videos from websites like Youtube to your blog posts. There’s a few different ways to do this. First we’ll show you how to embed videos using an embed code, and then we’ll show you an even easier way to do it using a plugin. Embedding a Video [...]

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