Randy Elrod Inspired

// January 8th, 2007 // 3 Comments » // Blog

Randy Elrod (of Ethos) is an inspiration to me and countless others. I came up with the idea for a blogroll as a way to say thanks to Randy for sharing his vision of the importance of blogging. Randy began a mentoring group at Merridees in Franklin, TN long before I came to town. He welcomed me into the circle with guys like Mark Lee, Chad Jarnagin, Jeremy Thiessen, and several others. During the winter of 2004-2005, Randy got the blog bug from Mark Lee, a long time blogger. Since then, he’s encouraged many in our group who have since started our own blogs. And from Randy’s talks at seminars, conferences, and Peoples Church services, many of you have also been inspired to begin blogging.

Why a blogroll? Blogrolls help to provide visibility to popular as well as soon to be popular blogs by sharing some commonalities and by introducing friends of friends. Having others linked to you is a great way to improve your rankings within technorati and google. The promotion of the “tail”, as Hugh Hewitt discusses in his book “Blog: Understanding the Information Reformation That’s Changing Your World” (a great read by the way), is an added benefit as well.

If you have been impacted by Randy and would like to be included in the blog roll, send me an email at theron [at] theronhatch.com (personal anti-spam robot protection: you’ll want to replace the [at] with @). Include your Name, Blog URL, a brief narrative of your brush with fame (I mean Randy), and why you blog. Make sure its clean because I may end up using it as a promotional tool.

Here is the current list:

When adding this to your site, please include Randy Elrod Inspired as the blogroll name.

Method #1: Insert the following Javascript code into your blog template. This will probably be the most common method used. For Typepad, create a Notes TypeList and add a new item in the TypeList. Copy and paste the code into the Notes field of the TypeList item and save. For Wordpress and Blogger, you are on your own. Sorry!

Linkin love and missing Blog Day 06

// September 4th, 2006 // 1 Comment » // Blog

I found out today that I missed International Blog Day 2006, which was last Wednesday, August 30th. Well, there’s always next year.

I’ve added a few new links to the icon tact blogroll.

Most recently is Scott Hodge. Scott has a really neat and clean site with lots of stuff I like.

Just found Scott’s site this afternoon while visiting Ragamuffin Soul. Ragamuffin Soul has been battling it out for links with Ethos. Don’t tell Randy I’m linking to both you guys.

Sharon Cobb is a journalist from Tennessee. She is a proud member of the Nashville Is Talking elite.

Kari Slusser is my favorite behind the scenes leader of our TPC band for Sunday mornings. She is home now with a new little one which probably prompted the venture into blogging. That and she works closely with Randy.

Lastly is What if…, the brainchild of William Guice, the new pastor of all things not really old and not really young at TPC. William is grasping all thing new with blog technology. Great site.