tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642801.post1397511808583908338..comments2024-01-07T09:34:44.086-05:00Comments on What Canst Thou Say?: Blogging as ministryRobin M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10336915224193704866noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642801.post-11792731979457342162015-05-28T15:16:24.052-04:002015-05-28T15:16:24.052-04:00I'm appreciating the archive at the moment. I...I'm appreciating the archive at the moment. I remembered the paragraph about the gentleness of comments and the use of real names. I've been looking for about an hour for it, first on the whole web, then at QuakerRanter, then here. <br /><br />My yearly meeting needs some comment on the Good Order Of Friends with digital media, so our Committee on the Discipline is drafting an appendix currently. This post should help. Jay T.http://jtblog.lindajohansen.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642801.post-8602183312557736782009-05-26T22:26:33.378-04:002009-05-26T22:26:33.378-04:00Emily, welcome! One benefit of blogging is that it...Emily, welcome! One benefit of blogging is that it is constantly updated, the other is that it is consistently archived.Robin M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10336915224193704866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642801.post-85419335200727917802009-05-26T21:08:56.010-04:002009-05-26T21:08:56.010-04:00Robin,
Thank you for this post. I'm a bit late fi...Robin,<br /><br />Thank you for this post. I'm a bit late finding it, but I really appreciate it. I keep thinking about our dinner conversation about blogging as ministry. I hope you are well. <br /><br />In peace, EmilyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642801.post-72153964015280261782009-03-30T23:43:00.000-04:002009-03-30T23:43:00.000-04:00Ah Martin, I'm just glad I figured it out before y...Ah Martin, I'm just glad I figured it out before you had to point it out to me. I have to get over my self-image as a Luddite, it's just not honest anymore.<BR/><BR/>And no, I would in no way know you, Wess, Gregg, Liz, or any of a hundred people or so who I have connected with via blogs. My life is much richer this way, and what I can offer to my local community is richer. The blogosphere hasn't replaced my monthly meeting; it has expanded our collective knowledge in useful ways. Thank God, seriously.Robin M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10336915224193704866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642801.post-14585970609682025182009-03-30T21:46:00.000-04:002009-03-30T21:46:00.000-04:00Sorry I'm late to this post. As I was reading the ...Sorry I'm late to this post. As I was reading the comments I was thinking "it's just that it's on the homepage and they're all reading an individual post." Common confusion that can happen on any kind of blogging platform using any browser.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for posting this Robin, great stuff. I've been recovering old emails lately and have had a blast looking up people to re-read the first correspondences. Pretty much everyone has found some old post via a Google search and wants to talk about it. Being publicly accessible and searchable has allowed this blogging to bring unlikely people together. Would you, me, Wess, Gregg, even know each other if it weren't for Google searches and follow-up correspondences and meetings? That's been one of the most amazing part of the Quaker blog experience for me!Martin Kelleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06999620933648327663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642801.post-44182539474754852232009-03-29T21:42:00.000-04:002009-03-29T21:42:00.000-04:00Cat, I'm glad you liked the post. Okay, I have a n...Cat, I'm glad you liked the post. <BR/><BR/>Okay, I have a new insight about the subscription box. It only appears on the homepage of my blog, not on the pages that are for a specific post. If you click on the header, or otherwise go to the <A HREF="http://robinmsf.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow">main page</A>, you will find the subscription option. If you come to the blog from a link to the specific page, you won't see it. This is true for all the elements that I have added to my sidebar beyond the basic Blogger features. I don't yet know how to fix that, but I hope this helps.Robin M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10336915224193704866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642801.post-42716937282448687742009-03-29T19:22:00.000-04:002009-03-29T19:22:00.000-04:00Hate to take up so much space with a technical ma...Hate to take up so much space with a technical matter, but the subscription box is not showing up for me, either, and I'm quite surprised as I have a similar subscription through email box configured, not for my Quaker blog, but for my classroom blogs. (So parents can stay up to date on assignments for their kids--a lot of families in the hilltowns where I teach only have dialup, and a classroom blog without a subscription option would be pretty inaccessible.)<BR/><BR/>I'm startled that I don't see your box; I do see mine in this browser when I visited it just now. So perhaps its an on again/off again Blogger technology issue?<BR/><BR/>I keep meaning to get up to speed with Wordpress, which I think has a little more of a learning curve, but seems to be a bit more stable and customizable as a platform. Like you, I sometimes encourage people to take up blogging, and I should really get a bit more conversant with all that's out there!<BR/><BR/>Oh, well, not until summer rolls around.<BR/><BR/>Let me just close with a "me too" on how much I enjoyed this post. I'd love to be in a workshop on Quaker blogging with you!Cat C-B (and/or Peter B)https://www.blogger.com/profile/10002916434676859262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642801.post-81947353387537596492009-03-29T19:10:00.000-04:002009-03-29T19:10:00.000-04:00Gil, I'm just sorry that I didn't manage to finish...Gil, I'm just sorry that I didn't manage to finish this post last year after the QUIP conference, when I started it. So this is a post that took 11 months to write. Fortunately, by now I had other things to add to it.<BR/><BR/>Bill, I don't know what the issue is between your computer and Blogger. The email sign up is not a Blogger feature, it's a specific element of my blog that I inserted in my own sidebar. I'm sorry to hear that it doesn't work for you. I hope your attempt to sign up via email will work better.Robin M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10336915224193704866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642801.post-71994729566960059362009-03-29T18:46:00.000-04:002009-03-29T18:46:00.000-04:00Furthermore, that seems to be a one-time, one blog...Furthermore, that seems to be a one-time, one blog option. Now that I've done it, the subscribe option has disappeared again.<BR/><BR/>I tried this same trick on another Blogger blog, and I didn't get a subscribe box but a message that "No posts match your query." So even this trick seems to be unique to your blog.Bill Samuelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00752443575410023776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642801.post-61347333004235742112009-03-29T18:43:00.000-04:002009-03-29T18:43:00.000-04:00I put "subscribe" in the search box in the Blogger...I put "subscribe" in the search box in the Blogger ribbon on top of the blog to see whether I could find a subscribe option. Nothing happened for a couple of minutes, then a subscribe section showed up on the blog where you said it should be and the Blogger ribbon disappeared.<BR/><BR/>How many people would know that they should do that? It's weird software. They need to fix it so the user doesn't need to go through those contortions, which are nowhere explained.Bill Samuelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00752443575410023776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642801.post-6228226690349705722009-03-29T18:31:00.000-04:002009-03-29T18:31:00.000-04:00Thanks so much for doing this Robin and for mentio...Thanks so much for doing this Robin and for mentioning QUIP too. I'm just about to come over to the US for this year's QUIP conference and the blogging conversation continues. <BR/><BR/>On a technical note I use Windows XP and Internet explorer on a notebook and I can see your email signup quite clearly just under your picture on the right hand sidebar.<BR/><BR/>I am quite happy using Blogger and have also found that I save a lot of time using Bloglines - thanks for introducing me to that!Gil Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09333053235167826429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642801.post-72550867381925234142009-03-29T18:01:00.000-04:002009-03-29T18:01:00.000-04:00Just to add that I use Windows XP, and no subscrib...Just to add that I use Windows XP, and no subscribe option shows up in the sidebar using either Firefox or Internet Explorer (which have 90% or more of the browser market between them). That's got to mean the majority of Web users don't have that option with Blogger.Bill Samuelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00752443575410023776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642801.post-1587968914463074452009-03-29T17:54:00.000-04:002009-03-29T17:54:00.000-04:00Robin, I guess that only shows up on certain confi...Robin, I guess that only shows up on certain configurations. I have a very common configuration, but that doesn't show up for me on your blog or any other Blogger blog. I guess it must be a bug in the Blogger software.Bill Samuelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00752443575410023776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642801.post-10532509084059651342009-03-29T17:49:00.000-04:002009-03-29T17:49:00.000-04:00Alyssa, I'm glad you were there. My blog posts tak...Alyssa, I'm glad you were there. My blog posts take anywhere from 15 minutes to six months to compose. More like an hour usually. I usually write on paper first, then I type into Word for editing and then paste into blogger to add the hyperlinks etc. <BR/><BR/>Bill, on the sidebar of my blog, near the top, is a section that says Subscribe to Robin's Blog. There's a box to type in your email address. It's processed through Feedburner, and it delivers my posts via email to anyone who wants them. There's a couple dozen people who have done that. I wouldn't lie to you about something like this.<BR/><BR/>Johan, I'm sorry we didn't get to do more than just wave and say hi in Canby. But it was a good meeting. Gregg Koskela, who also wrote about the session on his blog, also pointed to the discussion of the Atonement on my blog recently as an example of people expressing very different understandings in a helpful way. (It's in the comment stream of my review of the A New Kind of Christian trilogy.)Robin M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10336915224193704866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642801.post-33420870166967822112009-03-29T17:22:00.000-04:002009-03-29T17:22:00.000-04:00I wish I could have been there! I really appreciat...I wish I could have been there! I really appreciate that you've been willing to think out loud about this form of ministry over the years. And you're right about the general lack of contention and abrasiveness on our Quaker blogs. This makes us more willing to post tentative or unfinished ideas; those who follow up don't intend to trump us, they just add angles we might not have thought of or given enough weight to. The current discussion on my blog about "Are Quakers Protestant?" is a good example. (Right now I'm trying to think about whether there's a legitimate link between "salvation by faith" and "convincement," but I'm not responsible for proposing the final word, just my next word.)Johan Maurerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13771067774042071617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642801.post-2285851110131824182009-03-29T17:18:00.000-04:002009-03-29T17:18:00.000-04:00"I think all the members of my anchor committee su..."I think all the members of my anchor committee subscribe to my blog by email." I really don't understand that - it strains my credulity. There is no mechanism provided on your site or on other Blogger sites, to subscribe to posts by email (you can subscribe to comments on a particular post).<BR/><BR/>This is one of the things I don't like about Blogger blogs. The only evident way to keep up with them that I can find (other than Bloglines, which I find not very convenient) is to check back from time to time to see if anything new has been posted. This is very cumbersome, and results in many people who would like to read new posts not reading them.<BR/><BR/>I like WordPress, which does provide for email notification of new posts. The tech challenged can use it at WordPress.com, which is very simple, and the more Web sophisticated can get the software at WordPress.org, and put it on their own sites.Bill Samuelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00752443575410023776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642801.post-45796245956190848482009-03-29T17:07:00.000-04:002009-03-29T17:07:00.000-04:00Thanks, Robin. I enjoyed the workshop. Some questi...Thanks, Robin. I enjoyed the workshop. Some questions: how long does it usually take you to compose a blog post? Do you write it in another program (e.g., Word) and then paste it in? Just wondering about some of the logistical aspects of blogging....Alyssa N.noreply@blogger.com