Well it has been one and a half months since self hosting over at OurChurch. Very cool

• Self Host – Done, thank you Paul Steinbrueck and OurChurch.
• Non Template Theme – thank you human3rror
• 200 Subscribers – bouncing between 388 and 351. Thanks if you have subscribed,  if you have not I encourage you to. Maybe I need to readjust my goal to 500.
• 1000 comments – Very close to this, that is why I posted the competition post: Competition: 1000th Comment – Stuff Christians Like Book. So get cracking with those comments Actually I removed a number of trackbacks and spam comments that found there way in some time back, so I have fallen back somewhat. Please help me make up that ground.
• Community - Tough one to measure. I am not really seeing this on my blog other than connecting with a few cool people through the comments. Pretty much all the community is happening in Twitter and facebook. However I have signed up to postrank to measure this through their engagement points and also with ubervu for reations, both look very hot.

How are you doing with your goals? Got any tools/plans in place to achieve them?

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One of the major milestones of this blog is nearing Completion; that of 1000 comments. In celebration of achieving that particular milestone I will be sending a copy of the Stuff Christians Like Book. I feel that such a milestone is deserving of a prize because I value comments more that other statistics. I don’t expect that this will mean that I will get more comments but if I do achieve the milestone faster than expected then I will send out two prizes for comments 1000 and 1001.

Thanks you for your comments so far; each one is valued highly so please do not hesitate saying anything you like.

It has been almost two weeks that I have been using the Click Map wordpress plugin that I found over at ChurchCrunch in an article:  Easy and Effective ClickMap WordPress Plugin: WP-Clickmap. From my experience so far I have noticed that many of the people that visit Synaptic Light actually make use of the Navigation Bar. Originally I only had: (more…)

If there is one thing I have learned in almost two years of blogging – there is no fast track. There is nothing special that will make you popular, bring in the visits, bring in the comments, or attract subscribers. Nothing.

So with that in mind, what can be done, what should not? What do you think? Copy the experts? Do you own thing? Here are a couple of my thoughts on the matter – bearing in mind that I am not necessarily the best example or expect, bleh – just that this is as much a frustration for me: (more…)

The truth is that I do not need your comments. I just want them. Not to justify my ego or the existence of this blog.
But they are cool, and those that add them are even cooler.
woot

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I have not been too fond of FriendFeed, until now. Maybe it is too late, I don’t know. But FriendFeed is a great place to engage and listen. I kind of see it as Twitter on steroids where you can have pretty much anything streamed on your profile from twitter, comments, posts and video.
I tend to follow less people on FriendFeed than on Twitter or Facebook. But now with FriendFeed being part of FaceBook – who knows what will happen.

Sucked up and forgotten. I hope not. Facebook has too many types of expression, add another one – so what.

Anyway, how about you follow me on FriendFeed

Change is as good as a holiday, eh?

Well, there are a lot of changes coming to this website. I was privileged to make the cross over from wordpress.com to wordpress.org by being hosted over at ourchurch.com.

Making the move with a Thesis Theme from John Saddington (human3rror and ChurchChrunch) in  Commenting competition (Winners of the 3,000th Comment Contest).

You see it pays to comment (more…)

What is your choice of Analytics? Google/Bing/Yahoo?
Do you use any type of plugin to view the results on your blog? Or do you make use of a Desktop Analytics Application like Polaris or Trakkboard?

The tools are certainly informative but information is like a waterhole to a horse – can you drink it? I have a lot to learn being so early in the game and with so many options, charts and graphs I find myself all a whirl. (more…)

2009 was an interesting year.
I learned a lot, connected a lot.
It was the year that I really got into blogging – I gave it a good shot.
There were disappointments, there were surprises.
Most of all it was a time of finding my place, establishing myself – branding.
Looking back on what I wrote about; from church, to social media to filmmaking,
it was clear that the content that I thought was important and that would garner the most interest – didn’t.
Most of the time I would be shaking my head to what proved to be popular and what was not (but should of).
In in that vein; here were the top 10 posts of 2009:

So here is to 2009 – cheers.

In preparing for 2010 I had set out some goals. The most fundamental one being; to get self hosted. This would set me up to succeed in many of my plans for 2010.

Now here is my greatest Christmas Present of 2009, I am already self hosted.

Thanks for the community of bloggers that I find myself in.

Thanks to the relationships and connections that have been established in that community.

Most of all, Thanks to OurChurch.com and their CEO – Paul Steinbrueck, for setting me up on their servers. It has been a watershed experience.

I strongly suggest, that if you are looking to move over to a self hosted environment that you keep an eye on OurChurch.com (most definitely subscribe to them) – for I have it on good authority that there will be very interesting news coming out in January.

It’s time that, we who are Christian Bloggers, step up to the plate and show the world that we have great content to share and great community to offer.

OurChurch can help you out there.