Tom Jamieson

My take on blogging, social media, ministry, and leadership

Category Archives: Blogging/Social Media

August 31st, 2011

According to the Google Chrome Blog:

Gmail Offline is a Chrome Web Store app that helps you read, respond to, organize and archive email when you don’t have an internet connection.

Google also says they’ll be rolling out Google Calendar and Google Docs offline within the next week.

You can read more about it here.

I like that Google is adding these options as it makes Gmail more user friendly and allows for reading and writing offline.

How does this impact you and your email use?  Are you a Gmail user?

Timeless Blog Posts That Generate Blog Traffic

January 18th, 2011

I’ve heard it said before that the key to generating blog traffic is to write blog posts that are timeless.  Apparently writing about topics that are universally searched for and interesting will send more traffic to my blog.

However, it never ceases to amaze me (although it should) to see one or two of my blog posts continue to generate traffic in spite of when they were written.

For example, the last post I wrote was nearly two weeks ago (my apologies for that) and it was on the topic of Keeping the Faith in 2011.

Since that time, I have continued to watch my blog traffic with great interest and overwhelmingly the one post that has received the most traffic, hits, views, and clicks has been the post I wrote about getting more free space on DropBox.  And right now, the post that is following in at a close second is the end of the year post that ranked that post at #2.

Seth Godin even included timeless blog posts on his list of “How to get traffic for your blog.”

What do you think about timeless blog posts?  What trends have you noticed on your own blog?

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Top Post #2: Get More Free Space with DropBox

January 1st, 2011

Leading up to January 1, 2011, I will be counting down the top 10 posts of 2010, as recorded by the WordPress site stats here on Footsteps of Faith.  The 2nd most popular post was Get More Free Space with DropBox and was originally published November 22, 2010.

There is a post today over at ChurchCrunch outlining how to get nearly 1GB of extra free space on DropBox.  It’s actually very simple, and if you follow their six simple steps, you can earn 768MB of extra free space (6 steps, 128MB per step).

However, what I think is even way cooler about DropBox, is that for each person you refer that signs up, you each get an extra 250MB of free space.  This happened to me right after I completed the tasks above!

Click here to read “Get More Free Space with DropBox”

Top Post #3: National Unfriend Day: Why and How to Cut the “Friend Fat”

December 31st, 2010

Leading up to January 1, 2011, I will be counting down the top 10 posts of 2010, as recorded by the WordPress site stats here on Footsteps of Faith.  The 3rd most popular post was National Unfriend Day: Why and How to Cut the “Friend Fat” and was originally published November 17, 2010.

In reading through the Google Trends today, I learned for the first time that Jimmy Kimmel has declared November 17 “National Unfriend Day.” Jimmy wants you to make the time and take the opportunity to go to your Facebook page and pare down your friend list.

Click here to read “National Unfriend Day: Why and How to Cut the ‘Friend Fat’”

Top Post #8: Cash Giveaway Contest at We Blog Better

December 29th, 2010

Leading up to January 1, 2011, I will be counting down the top 10 posts of 2010, as recorded by the WordPress site stats here on Footsteps of Faith.  The 8th most popular post was Cash Giveaway Contest at We Blog Better and was originally published October 20, 2010.

I haven’t entered a lot of contests or giveaways in the year-plus that I have been blogging, but this contest being offered by We Blog Better seemed to good to pass up.  By writing this post and linking to the sponsors, I have a double entry to win $100!  There are other ways to win as well:

Click here to read “Cash Giveaway Contest at We Blog Better”