One Body, Many Blogs [Kindle Edition]

TJ Burdick (Author), Deacon Greg Kandra (Author), Brandon Vogt (Author), Lisa Hendey (Author), Frank Weathers (Author), Devin Rose (Author), Marc Barnes (Author), Katrina Fernandez (Author), Susan Windley-Daoust (Author), Kevin Knight (Author)

Book Description

One Body, Many Blogs is a collection of answers from some of the giants of the Catholic blogosphere to the following question: In your opinion, what are the “ten commandments” that Christian bloggers should keep in mind while pressing on in their digital mission?
Their answers are diverse and extremely helpful for anyone who shares the charism of blogging. Each response was treated it as if it were a blogpost in length, voice, style and content. As you will see, each blogger has created a unique and informative response that will provide you with ideas on how to develop your own particular voice through the communal blogging charism by which you feel called to participate in.

Product Details

• File Size: 251 KB
• Print Length: 52 pages
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B009LBZI1K
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Not Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #499,762 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Resource for Catholic Bloggers (and wannabe's) October 9, 2012

By Ronald L. Moffat

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I only stumbled on this book, about a month ago by accident, but I'm very glad I did. As a struggling Catholic blogger, the great thing I learned from it is how much I didn't know. The book is filled with dos and don'ts that are aimed especially at those writing for a Catholic audience, but I think many of the various author's "10 Commandments" would be useful for anyone wanting to write for the web. Also, as one who seems to live a very sheltered life, it was a great resource for discovering new bloggers that I simply hadn't heard of before. Considering that TJ Burdick is donating the proceeds from the book to help kids at the school where he teaches, you can't go wrong.

So, buy the book!

4.0 out of 5 stars Good encouragement December 13, 2012

By pcav3473

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For anyone who is out there trying to build up a 'faith-based' blog, this book contains plenty of encouragement. The tips on how to deal with comment management are excellent. It is one of those little books that you could read once a year and gain more from each time. Coming through each contributor's thoughts is the common thread that 'Before you sit down to put fingers to key-pad .... PRAY'. Blogging is often a lonely enterprise, so reading the experiences of others is a huge encouragement to keep on going, and to get better at it.

5.0 out of 5 stars Helpful Resource for Christian Blogging November 20, 2012

By Joseph M. Reninger

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One Body, Many Blogs, A Guide for Christian Bloggers, is an e-book by TJ Burdick. He has compiled eleven Catholic bloggers' suggestions for the "ten commandments" of blogging. Each chapter has a short biography of the blogger and their recommended commandments. Several themes are repeated over and over:

Don't feed the trolls--Trolls are people who comment on a blog seemingly only to stir up controversy and heated (rather than enlightened) discussion. Typically their arguments are shallow, relying on emotionally-laden buzz words (possibly swearing too) rather than coherent arguments. This is good advice for most any blogger, Christian or not.
Pray before blogging--Motivation in blogging ranges all over the place. Some bloggers want to persuade, some to entertain, some to boost their egos. For a Christian blogger, helping others by witnessing should be the motivation, not the desire to zing an opponent or show how great you are.
Write on a regular schedule--This advice is good for all bloggers. The best way to build a readership is to let them know how often you will be posting, so they can keep up.
Give credit to others when it is due and share from other blogs--Another way to build readership is to know about and interact with other similar blogs or ones in which you have interest. Just don't steal what they wrote and pass it off as your own. Again, it's good advice for all bloggers.

The various authors (including Jeff Miller/Curt Jester, Marc Barnes/Bad Catholic, Lisa Hendey/Catholic Mom) are all engaging and the book is a fun, quick read as well as an inspiration to be a better blogger.

The book includes a glossary of blogging technical terms (like RSS feed, combox, troll, etc.) and a list of papal documents relating to communications (including hyperlinks to the full texts).

Money quote from the Vatican documents:

So often freedom is presented as a relentless search for pleasure or new experiences. Yet this is a condemnation not a liberation! True freedom could never condemn the individual - especially a child - to an insatiable quest for novelty. In the light of truth, authentic freedom is experienced as a definitive 'yes' to humanity, calling us to choose, not indiscriminately but deliberately, all that is good, true and beautiful.

More About the Author

Lisa M. Hendey is the Founder and Editor of CatholicMom.com, a web site focusing on the Catholic faith, Catholic parenting and family life, and Catholic cultural topics.

Launched in late 1999, CatholicMom.com welcomes visitors every month from around the world. The site features columns by over ninety contributing columnists who volunteer their expertise on everything from Catholic Breastfeeding and Natural Family Planning to parenting humor. Additionally, CatholicMom.com is home to a Catholic Book Club featuring monthly fiction, non-fiction and children's selections by Catholic authors. The site's Catholic Music Spotlights highlight the work of Catholic recording artists in an interview format designed to help promote Catholic music and aid parents in helping their children make uplifting listening decisions.

Each week, CatholicMom.com offers a variety of children's activities designed to help children learn from the Sunday Liturgy of the Word. These activities, based upon the Sunday Gospel, include age appropriate coloring pages, crossword and word search puzzles, and interactive Mass worksheets designed to help the child truly embrace the Mass. Weekly lesson plan aids are offered for Religious Education teachers, homeschoolers and families looking to teach the faith based upon the Church's liturgical calendar. Visitors from over 100 countries around the globe have come to rely upon these free and liturgically relevant catechetical materials.

Lisa and her husband Greg, an Emergency Physician, reside in Fresno, California with their two sons, Eric and Adam. Lisa and Greg met and married at the University of Notre Dame and share a passion for Irish football. Following her undergraduate work at Notre Dame, Lisa earned a Master's Degree in Human Resource Development from Vanderbilt University. She worked for several years in the field of Human Resources for non-profit entities including Kaiser Permanente and Vanderbilt University, specializing in recruitment and corporate training prior to "retiring" to care for her children in the home.

Today, Lisa heads a home based web design business, designing and maintaining sites for several clients. In addition to her work with CatholicMom.com, she is also employed by St. Anthony of Padua parish as webmaster for the parish web site. She has done pro bono web design for Samaritan Women, a prison ministry agency and is involved in numerous community service initiatives. The Hendey family members are active parishioners at St. Anthony of Padua Parish, where Lisa serves an Extraordinary Minister of the Eucharist.

As a freelance writer, Lisa is a regular contributor to Catholic Exchange, Catholic Online, The Integrated Catholic Life and Catholic.net and countless other Internet publishers. Additionally, Lisa writes the popular "Tech for You" column at the Catholic Women's Channel. Her articles have appeared in the National Catholic Register, Our Sunday Visitor, Faith and Family Magazine, Canticle Magazine, Grapevine Magazine and Kids' Ark Magazine.

Lisa recently released her best-selling first book, entitled The Handbook for Catholic Moms: Nurturing Your Heart, Mind, Body and Soul with publisher Ave Maria Press. The book encourages mothers to nurture themselves through healthy relationships, mentally, physically and employing the tools of the Catholic Church in order to better care for their families, communities, the Catholic Church and the world it is sent to serve.

Lisa's recent projects include Productivity @ Home (http://www.productivityathome.com), a blog site that examines the topic of personal productivity in the home and family environment, and the Catholic Moments Podcast (http://www.catholicmoments.com), a weekly interview format program that was recently selected to be an affiliate of the highly acclaimed Star Quest Production Network (SQPN), the home of the "Best in Catholic Podcasting". In addition, Lisa is currently filming "CatholicMom.com - Your Gateway to Faith and Family Resources on the Web", a television program produced by KNXT-TV and the Diocese of Fresno. The show features short video segments to be aired multiple times each week that will explore faith and family resources on the Internet. Lisa can also be found blogging each week as part of the team of writers at Faith and Family Live (http://www.faithandfamilylive.com), the new and very popular web site of Circle Media's Faith and Family magazine. Additionally, Lisa serves as a columnist for Central California Catholic Life, the diocesan newspaper of the Diocese of Fresno.

Lisa M. Hendey is available to speak to your group on Catholic faith, family, new media, personal productivity and healthy living topics. Lisa is domiciled in the Diocese of Fresno and has received authorization and permission from Bishop John T. Steinbock to speak both within and outside of the Diocese of Fresno.

Contact Information:

Lisa M. Hendey
2037 W. Bullard Ave. #247
Fresno, CA 93711

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View Samples of Lisa's Work at:

http://www.lisahendey.com
http://www.CatholicMom.com
http://www.productivityathome.com
http://www.catholicmoments.com
http://catholicmoments.sqpn.com
http://faithandfamilylive.com/author/Lisa/
http://woman.catholicexchange.com/category/columnists/lisa-hendey/

Lisa's speaking topics include the following:
* "Unity in the Eucharist: Becoming a Eucharistic Family"
* "Friendship, Dialogue and Respect - A Catholic Guide to Faith Filled Technology Choices" (can be presented for either adult, youth or child audiences)
* "Pastoral Ministry in a Digital World"
* "Digital and Internet Technologies for Clergy"
* "Fulfilling Our Promises in the Domestic Church"
* "Faith Formation of the Facebook Generation"
* "Catechizing Adults with New Media Technologies"
* "Self Care for Moms - Nurturing Your Heart, Mind, Body and Soul"
* "Nurturing Your Faith Life with 21st Century Resources"
* "Catholic Parenting: Fulfilling Our Baptismal Calling in The Domestic Church"
* "Raising Faith-Filled Children in Today's Technological Climate "
* "Your Catholic Faith as a key to Personal Productivity"
* "Personal Productivity and Prayer - Faithfully Getting Things Done"
* "Today's Catholic Mom (or Catholic Woman) - Faith filled Examples of Ordinary Women Doing Extraordinary Things to Share Our Faith"
* "Productivity at Home - Getting Things Done Where It Matters Most"
* "Catholic Mom (or Woman): Heart, Mind, Body and Soul - Caring for the One Who Takes Care of Everyone Else"

For a complete speaker's package, including a letter from Bishop John T. Steinbock and audio samples, contact Lisa at [e-mail] or 206-339-9272