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Mining Your Social Web Relationships

by Brandon on Monday, August 9, 2010 in Social Media

TweetI’ve just written a post over at Fuel Your Blogging about some tools for digging into your social networking relationships. In that post, I talk briefly about how I believe we’re in the adolescence period of the internet. We’re still focused on the “cool” factor of the tools we use, but some of the tools [...]

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The Pastors.com Sideblog

Check out the Pastors.com Sideblog

by Brandon on Tuesday, July 20, 2010 in Leadership

TweetI love links, stories, news, resources, articles, blogs, etc. I also love videos, pictures, and other kinds of multimedia. I especially love all of these things when they’re helpful, inspirational, and encouraging to Pastors. So as part of my new role at Pastors.com, I’ve created a Tumblog as a Pastors.com Sideblog. I’ll be posting all [...]

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Coda Theme Tabs

Coda: Great New WordPress Theme for Bloggers from Woo Themes

by Brandon on Tuesday, June 22, 2010 in Creativity

TweetI often use space here to pass along good finds to bloggers, especially Pastors who blog. Woo Themes has just released their newest blog theme called Coda (aff), and it offers a sweet layout, a bunch of color schemes, and one very unique feature that highlights discussion and community – the comments are put on [...]

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I’m Deeply Honored to Be One of the 10 Drop-Dead Ugliest Bloggers!… I Think!

by Brandon on Saturday, June 19, 2010 in Social Media

TweetNicholas Cardot is an awesome blogger. He even wrote a great book on blogging (aff link), and let me throw in a chapter. So when I saw this list, I was compelled to read. Stinkin’ hilarious!! Of me, Nicholas said… Brandon Cox: Brandon can’t throw a boomerang like most people because it always refused to [...]

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Understanding Online Community

by Brandon on Tuesday, June 15, 2010 in Creativity, Social Media

TweetIn my new role at Saddleback Church, the biggest part of what I’ll be doing is fostering and managing a community of Pastors as they gather around Pastors.com with all of its resources. Online community management is often difficult to understand when you begin your thinking with the tools and technology. But if you start [...]

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Why Not Start Blogging Today?

by Brandon on Tuesday, May 18, 2010 in Social Media

TweetBlogging is an artform. It’s a powerful tool of influence for communicating ideas, and I think as social media changes and fluctuates, blogging will remain a consistently growing force as the source of most of the content people are sharing across the web. So why not jump in? There are a few people out there [...]

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Blogging to the Third Power Book Released

by Brandon on Thursday, May 6, 2010 in Books, Creativity

Tweet Nicholas Cardot has just released his new book, Blogging to the Third Power, and it’s an awesome, 204 page overview of the art of blogging covering every relevant topic from design to SEO to creative writing. And by the way, I contributed a chapter, so I know Nick and I would both greatly appreciate [...]

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A Quick Note About Subscribing by Email

by Brandon on Thursday, April 8, 2010 in Personal

TweetI wanted to post a little note about receiving Life Here and There by email. Up to this point, I’ve managed email subscribers using Feedburner, but have just switched over to using MailChimp for some new features and greater flexibility. If you’re already subscribed, I’ve kept you subscribed, but feel free to unsubscribe… I’ll try [...]

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The Art of Writing with Personality

Cool Stuff for the Weekend – Issue #2

by Brandon on Saturday, March 20, 2010 in Awesome Links

TweetHere are some of the posts and people from around the web who have inspired me, entertained me, or informed me this week. Enjoy!

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The Best-Coded WordPress Blogging Theme… Ever!

by Brandon on Monday, March 15, 2010 in Creativity

TweetIf you’re not familiar with the technical side of blogging, some of this may not make much sense, but I’ve just finished rolling out the newest re-design of this blog’s theme. If you’ve been here before, you’ll notice some differences. Most of the changes took place on the backend. This blog runs as a self-hosted [...]

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