Blogging

These are resources I use in various workshops I present on blogging, and which I contextualize during those workshops. Don’t assume I endorse them all.

Digital tools

• Wordpress
• Google reader
• MarsEdit
• NewsGator
• LiveJournal
• Blogger
• Creative Commons .

Blogging background

• Will Richardson on Blogs, Wikis and Podcasts
• Rebecca Blood’s Weblog Handbook
• Palloff and Pratt’s Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace
• Heidi Campbell’s Exploring Religious Community Online
• Amy Jo Kim on Community Building on the Web
• Joe Clark on Building Accessible Websites
•  Blogs in Plain English
• RSS in Plain English
• Social Media in Plain English
• Twitter in Plain English
• wikipedia on blogs
• wikipedia on RSS

Blogs on pastoral leadership

• Faith as a Way of Life
• Theology for the Church
• Young Clergy Women Project
• Norma Cook Everist
• Church Innovations
• ProdigalKiwi
• Greenflame
• johnnybaker
• Peter Rollins
• Ministry with Children
• The Sarcastic Lutheran
• Next GenerAsian
• The Kitchen Table
• ISAAC blog
• Ministry with Children

Blogs from churches

• Humble Walk
• Rooted
• Redeemer Center for Life
• The Mad Preacher
• A Wee Blether
• Sunflower Chalice
• Living Word by Word
• Whybloom

Blogs on teaching/learning

• Stephen Downes
• Weblogg-ed

Multiple author/aggregating blogs

• REA/APPRE09
• REA/APPRRE10 
• Children’s literature
• Global Voices
• The Immanent Frame
• dailyKos
• TheNextRight
• ScienceBlogs
• Faith&Leadership
• Duke ScholComm
• BC ScholComm
• Seminarian’s Sojourn

Blogs on media and religion

• The Scoop
• Stewart Hoover 
• Heidi Campbell
• Rock and Theology
• Religion Dispatches 
• Spiritual Politics

Other blogs that I enjoy

• DailyDish
• Joho
• A Nun’s Life
• Pogue at the NYT

Professional/ethical issues

• A “blogger’s code of ethics” and related comments
• Chron of Higher Ed’s “Can blogging derail your career?”