Blogs

Blogger
A Blog is an excellent tool to help build hype for Temple Hill! One of the best online blogs available is Blogger.com. Blogger allows you to log in through a Gmail account and is very straight forward and easy to use.

You may have some intial questions. Blogger has created an excellent tour to help you answer some of those questions!

Blogger Tour

Once you've had some of those questions answered, an excellent video tutorial has been provided by Blogger as well. This tutorial will walk you through the steps of setting up your very own blog:

Blogger Video Tutorial

If you have more questions, another helpful source for Blogger tutorials is this website. It contains a lot of information if you are looking to do some more customization on your blogs. Its a very helpful resource, check it out:

List of Tutorials for Blogger

Blog Ideas
 * 1) Review an event on Temple Hill
 * 2) Why are you passionate about Temple Hill? Why do you continue to volunteer here?
 * 3) Expand on a comment that someone has posted
 * 4) Do an interview with a participant/director
 * 5) Run a contest – give away tickets that have already been distributed
 * 6) Conduct a poll – what was your favorite moment/song in the production
 * 7) Use a guest blogger – audience, church members, choir members, Catholic Diocese
 * 8) List a few of your favorite websites – or articles about the Church
 * 9) Write about someone who inspires you in the Church – either local or a General Authority
 * 10) Discuss your feelings about a Church news headline
 * 11) Do a Q & A with participants in shows – why they do it, what they’re looking forward to
 * 12) Share your experience from a live event
 * 13) Recommend your new and improved social media us – encourage likes, follows, emails, etc
 * 14) List upcoming live events with dates, time, and place
 * 15) List your most popular blog posts (anyone noticing the theme of “lists?” )
 * 16) Review another blog – have someone review your blog – guest bloggers!
 * 17) Tell a story about yourself – how you became connected with Temple Hill or various funny things that took place at rehearsals
 * 18) List your favorite resources with links about the Church
 * 19) Explain why a certain quote has meaning to you from General Conference
 * 20) Your typical day at Temple Hill – what does it involve, who’s there

Feedburner
Feedburner is a tool to help your blog become more visible. Once your blog has been created, you can use Google's Feedburner service to make your blog more visible. Setting up your Blogger account with Feedburner can be a bit tricky, so we've scoured the web and found the best tutorials to help you do so:

First, is Feedburner's actual help website relating to Blogger.

Feedburner and Blogger

Second, is a tutorial by Raju

Feedburner Tutorial