BabuLife

Was it Something I Said?

Woke up this morning to find that my Feedburner subscriber total went from 86 on Tuesday to 14 today.  Was it something I said?  Maybe folks don't like Rock and Roll churches?

Meet My New Computer

It came.  My replacement to an old friend.  No...it isn't a Mac.  Sorry Mac folks...thanks for the emails and comments, but we decided to stick with the Dell family.  And I'll admit...I'm pretty giddy.  Here's what awaited me when I came to the office.  Unpacking the box.  As you can see I added a little personality.  What better color scheme than the Grace blue and grey?

Today our IT man, Jim Williams (aka youth pastor/facility manager/ministry pastor...did I forget anything?) spent the day in my office installing software and prepping it for it's new life in my hands.  I'm back in business!

ATTENTION FEEDBURNER PROS

Back in June I set up a Feedburner account...yes after 2 years of blogging....I'm so with it.  After the trouble of doing it, I'm completely confused with what I see on my account.  There are apparently a few different feeds and people are using 2 of them to get BabuLife in their reader of choice.  Here's what I see on my Feedburner account:

So if I really have 86 people subscribing, why does the "readers by feedburner" icon on my right side bar only read from the "79" subscribers feed?  Can someone please tell me how I can get those 7 folks added into the 79?

Thanks for any help you can provide!

-Babu

Grace Church on Facebook

I've been on Facebook now for a month and am actually rather enjoying it.  Friday the new Grace Church Facebook group page launched and already there are 17 members.  I can see how this web tool can be a benefit for networking and community.

Check out Facebook and add me as a friend. I'm not very fickle about accepting, I'll take any friend I can get.  Go to my profile here.

If you'd like to be a part of the Grace Church group, click here and sign up.  You do have to have a Facebook account.  Come on...be a part of the community!  Look at those wonderful looking members!

See you on Facebook!

-Babu

Meet Me on Facebook

Over the weekend I logged on to Facebook and opened up an account.  As if I need another web thing to keep track of.  Join me on Facebook and you can get even more non-essential goofy stuff about me.

Facebook to me is a much cleaner answer to the cluttery (in my opinion) style of MySpace.  While I have a MySpace account, it does nothing but point to this blog.  With the MySpace I've been able to network with others, find old friends and reestablish connections with a relative.  I suppose Facebook will maybe give me the same opportunity with a much classier look and feel.  Anyone else out there using it?  If so...what do you think? 

For those of you already in the Facebook world out there, I can't figure out how to add you as a friend!  I can accept invitations but haven't been able to add friends.  Can anyone help?

Check out my Facebook public listing page here.

Blogging Church Promo Video

I'm halfway through The Blogging Church by Brian Bailey and Terry Storch.  Excellent foundational book for helping folks see the benefits of blogging within the church community.  Watch out Grace staff guys, I'm going to pass this along to you. I've got to get our Executive/Children's pastor to blog...he'd have some awesome stuff to share.  HT: Rick Watch this video about The Blogging Church:

Blogging Etiquette: The Hat Tip

Something I learned early in 2006 was the new and improved way of giving notice to a fellow blogger who posted something that you linked to on your blog.  The "Hat Tip" recognizes that blogger, giving your readers a chance to check out the origins of your "borrowed post". 

For instance, a video file that you thought was intriguing on my site here at BabuLife and you would like to share with your readers could be noted on your post as - HT: BabuLife along with the video or audio file you posted. It's a big internet, and I love clicking away from blogs I enjoy to others that I never would have seen or heard of.

Now I'm not a "numbers" kind of guy, believe me, my 25-30 subscribers are just fine for me. But if you're a fellow blogger, please consider giving a little Hat Tip to your blogging brethren,I've found that it's the friendly blogging thing to do.

Babu

Meet Lynda

A few months ago Grace revamped it's website and I needed to learn how to use "Macromedia Contribute".  We decided to go with that instead of Dreamweaver, being that I'm not a "webby kind of guy" we figured it'd be easier to use.  A friend recommended a nifty tool that I thought I'd pass along to you all.

Lynda.com is a great online tool that offers video training on MANY different software apps.  Photoshop, Illustrator, Macromedia, along with countless other training videos.  I could sit for hours watching the Photoshop training vids.  The great thing is you can enroll for a month at a time or for a year.  $25 a month or $250 a year. Perfect for the unkowledgeable worship leader who has fallen into the world of graphic design, web updating and all things techy.

Check out Lynda.com

Meet Sporty & Posh

Had a little fun with my two oldest kidlets today.  Meet Sporty Spice & Posh Spice.

Fix it Modwest!

My email is down.  So anyone who has sent me anything from about 7a.m. on...I'm NOT ignoring you!  I just can't get emails! 

Fix it Modwest!!!!