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Day 15 — 31 Days of Social Media {Simplify}

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Every­where you look online it’s all about big­ger and bet­ter. Face­book apps that help you stand out above all the other Face­book pro­files.  Word­Press plu­g­ins that mar­ket your blog every­where you can’t be at once. It goes on and on…

Even my other “self” will say this to her clients: You can wow the socks off of any­one you want, but if you have noth­ing to say, then it’s all worthless.

What hap­pened to just com­mu­ni­cat­ing your heart…your pas­sion? Let’s bring the hoopla down a bit. Do you remem­ber why you started that blog? Was it really about rub­bing elbows with the right blog­gers? Or was it just to get your thoughts and ideas out of your head on to vir­tual paper?

What about Face­book? If you feel like you have to update your sta­tus morn­ing, noon and night, you’ve prob­a­bly lost sight of your orig­i­nal rea­son for start­ing it in the first place.

Sim­plify
to make less com­pli­cated, clearer, or eas­ier
–dictionary.com

I want to encour­age you to clear up the clut­ter online. Let’s uncom­pli­cate the issue. Write it down. Put it on a Post It note and stick it to your mon­i­tor. Tape it to your vanity…whatever you need to do to get Ms. Human “Drama” Nature out of the picture.

Ok?

K.

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Be sure to check out the other blog­gers of 31 Days of Min­istry Online:

Amy B — 31 Days of Heart Matters

Karin — 31 Days of Inten­tional Par­ent­ing

Lisa Boyd — 31 Days of WordPress

Karen Lewis — 31 Days of Praise

Dawn — 31 Days of Encouragement

A Martha Heart — 31 Days of Prayer

Tags: Facebook, Online, Simplify, Social Media

2 Responses to “Day 15 — 31 Days of Social Media {Simplify}”

1. Bryan Thompson says:

   January 15, 2011 at 10:01 am

   Jenny, I have had some of the exact same thoughts you men­tion here lately.

   4 years ago, I began blog­ging per­sonal thoughts and inspi­ra­tional tid­bits I had learned as a pas­tor — some were hard lessons. I was a ter­ri­ble blog­ger in the sense that I never really under­stood how to net­work all that well. But then, I started get­ting some peo­ple who were able to find some solu­tions for what they were going through on my blog. Even­tu­ally, it sort of turned into a per­sonal devel­op­ment blog.

   All fine and good, right? Well, for me, I began writ­ing what I thought would make peo­ple happy. I recently came to have to look at myself and ask why I had started the blog in the first place. To make it as authen­tic and real is what attracted read­ers in the first place.

   The 31 days of sim­pli­fied social media (i will see what this is all about) sounds inter­est­ing. Thanks for posting!

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2. weelittlesoul says:

   January 15, 2011 at 3:55 pm

   Very strong post!

   Your famous bro brought home an audio book(let) the other day by Stephen Covey, he of “Seven Habits of Highly Effec­tive Peo­ple” fame. It was on cre­at­ing a per­sonal mis­sion statement.

   In work­ing on my own PMS , I real­ized that it’s basi­cally ren­der­ing what can be a crazy, over­loaded life down to its base metal and then look­ing closely at what that core of you is made of. You can lose it in the chaos that is the mod­ern world. Too much of our time is spent try­ing to get things done and too lit­tle ask­ing our­selves why we are doing them.

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