Notes - from breakout session at Relevant 2011
~ Upside Down Blogging & Blogging for Fame ~
1st Speaker: Courtney Joseph from WomenLivingWell.org
It’s wrong to make a tower
to ourselves. Courtney is struggling
with a few book deals and finding if it’s God’s will. If we are not filling ourselves with God’s
word, we will be frazzled. She wants
to walk so intimately with God that she knows his will.
2nd Speaker: Amy Lynn Andrews from BloggingWithAmy.com
Amy
started blogging in 2004. She has the
five points to make.
1. Blogging,
if you let it, will mirror your soul.
2. We
need each other.
3. Blogging
is a team sport. God owns everything and
he choose to divide it up the way he does.
Stop looking at what others are doing.
4. In
writing, describe the mundane things so that it’s interesting for the
reader. She referenced a story Ann Voskamp
writes about soap bubbles.
5. Blog
to change lives with Christ’s story.
3rd Speaker: Ann Voskamp from AHolyExperience.com
Ann
started blogging in 2003; seven of those years she was in a dark place. The reason she came to blogging is to allow
God to change her. She doesn’t have
comments or a site reader. Numbers are
like David taking a census. When you
step into the online world you cannot control where it goes, who reads it,
etc. It’s about giving yourself a way to
help your sisters.
What
does it look like to be a transparent mess that’s unfolding? It’s the tension of telling others involved
in your story, find out if they want to be included. This generation wants people to do this life
with them. The blog is a ministry. So people get to journey with you. Being transparent as it’s unfolding is important.
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