3. WEBINAR GOALS
• Learn the basics of blogs and blogging culture
• Understand the potential strategic uses of blogs.
• Reflect on your role in your synagogue and how
blogging can help you achieve your goals.
• Understand what makes a blog post valuable.
• How to integrate blogging into your multi-channel
strategy.
4. Blogging’s Value
• Storytelling
• Conversation
• Learning
• Links
• Longer format
• Multiple authors
• Archive for
reference
5. Blog Types For Synagogues
• Rabbinic blog (within org or personal)
• Synagogue wide blog
• Community photo blog
• Education blog
• Early Childhood blog
• Blog for specific program
• Israel trip travel blog
• Capital Campaign blog
6. Features
Blog Roll
Tags – and tag clouds
Lots of links
16th St JCC, Washington DC http://16thstreetj.wordpress.com
7. TAGGING
Tags (or labels) allow you to describe your posts, make
them more easily searchable, and publish a tag cloud
which describes the range of topics you are addressing.
8. Features
Photos for storytelling
In posts, and full Picasa
gallery
Upcoming events
Quick links to
categories and
sorted views
Congregation Beth Israel Preschool
13. Name Your Blog
Give it Personality!
The Jew and the Carrot (Hazon)
Jlearn2.0 (Jewish Education and Technology)
The Fly Fishing Rabbi
Feed Me Bubbe
Bagel Blogger
Yid with a Lid
Judeosphere
Velveteen Rabbi
How does the name influence your interest/attraction?
24. Comments on Blogs
• End your posts in questions to invite
response!
• Invite sharing experience and tips
• Hold contests (photo caption, etc.)
• Listen, and respond – online and in person
• Market the conversation in other places
• Invite guest bloggers to share their voice
25. Get Social!
• Comment on other people’s blogs
• Include links to other blogs and content
• Talk it up and make it valuable
• Craft posts that are responsive to real
community interest and needs