Author Archives: Lisa B.

What in the World is RSS?

{Thanks to Copyblogger for a helping hand with this tutorial.}
What is RSS?
And why should I care?
Good questions. First, here’s why you should care.
Unlike getting website updates or ezines by email, RSS feeds give you absolute, 100% complete control over the situation.
You don’t have to reveal your email address. If you want to stop [...]

Organization and Blogging?

Alyssa Avant recently started Organized Life by Design website and network. She is doing a blog tour, answering questions about organization.
sHb: Do you have any tips for how to organize your blog posts? How (or when) do you make the time to write them?
Alyssa: Like many other things that I do to organize I created [...]

WordPress vs TypePad

Many of you are already familiar with Blogger and any limitations that may be there. If you are frustrated with those options or just want to be able to do more with your blog, you have probably started looking at WordPress and TypePad. I’m going to compare some of the features and cost of both [...]

What are your questions?

I am cooking up some bloggy interviews with some bloggers who share their faith and wanted to get some feedback from you. What kinds of things would you like to know? Are you more interested in the technical aspects of it (like what do they use to blog?)? Or are you more interested in how [...]

Pieces of a Blog

Before we get into some nitty gritty blogging tips and techniques, there are a few things you should understand. If you have a blog on a free service like Blogger, you will not be able to see these pieces but they are there.
1. The first piece is a database. A database contains the actual text [...]

We have 2 winners!

It’s my birthday and I decided to change a few of the rules. Well, one actually. I divided everyone up into “already has a blog” and “no blog.” So there are 2 winners.
Lynn was comment #42 but does not have a blog. She will as soon as she emails me back! In the event I [...]

Holy Mama!

I was trying to decide what information to share with you today. I prayed about it and God led me to “Holy Mama!” Her tag line is “True confessions from the everyday life of a sorta shallow Christian mom.” You can read Kelsey’s story and how she thought she was too shy to reach out [...]

She Speaks Conference

Some of you may have heard of the She Speaks Conference before. It’s put on by Proverbs 31 Ministries for speakers, authors, and women’s ministry leaders. This year they are even adding two very special sessions for bloggers given by Rocks in my Dryer, BooMama and Big Mama. If you don’t read them, you should.
I [...]

Choosing which software to use

When you are starting out, you may not understand all the choices available to you in blogging software. Here are some basics about each service to give you a broad overview.

Finding Your Bloggy Purpose

I am thrilled and humbled that so many of you have found your way here. Don’t forget to enter the Launch Week Giveaway!
Many people start a blog with the intentions of making money. I should probably tell you right now, I’m not the person to get advice from for making money on your blog. While [...]