Here is the shocking admission.
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The Glory Has Departed
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Missouri Shrinker Snuffs His Own Blog
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The CG leaders are so phony. The only reason that Rev Mark Schulz (near Naperville, IL) is switching to Facebook from TypePad blogging is his CG gurus convinced him to! They never seem to tell their parishioners (or whatever GGers call them) that they follow fads and gurus in order to keep hip. I wonder why?
For instance, at New Life in Rockford (Rev. Philip Henselin presiding) on Saturday, February 20th they had an evangelism seminar entitled "Reaching Out in a Digital World" from 9AM-1PM with lunch provided, and they were pushing the move from blogging and web pages to Facebook and Twitter, and connecting the two together somehow.
Here's how Rev Mark Schulz could have been more genuine and truthful, if not hip:
First, he should have changed the question "My last blog post ever?" into a statement, because he has no intention of blogging further, despite his saying someone on the off-chance might convince him otherwise.
Second, he said he came to grimace whenever it came time to blog, but he'd only continue if someone could come up with a "reason" to do so. However, with these folks, feelings always trump reason, so why even ask for a reason?
Third, he said it was a "fun experiment" when he started, and then surprise, surprise, there were folks who actually wanted to read it. In reality, he was just following CG studies and his gurus advice, and he would have been mightily disappointed in his CG guru if he didn't get any traffic. Not that he'd actually demand his money back--just as no one ever demanded their money back after taking speed-reading courses that never panned out, or demanded their money back from the hypnotist when they didn't quit smoking.
His increased traffic numbers are entirely explainable by the fact that he must have hit some incoming link threshold that Google sets, increasing his Google Ranking. Either that, or all the CG people are linking to each other more.
Fourth, he says that Facebook feels much more natural--there's that feeling word again. However, the switch has more to do with Facebook receiving more traffic now than even Google.com.
Fifth, for the fad-conscious CG movement, anything that "seems so...yesterday" is on its way out, like the "leisure suit and my hair brush." What CGer could argue with that?
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Here's Mark Schulz's admission in case he deletes his blog as he promised to. Also, I'm surprised you didn't copy his text into your blog as used to be your habit:
http://markschulz.typepad.com/just_mark/2010/03/my-last-blog-post-ever.html#comments
My last blog post ever?
I've been blogging here for almost three years now. At first it was just a fun experiment. Then I discovered there were some folks that actually wanted to hear what I had to say about stuff at church. I'd typically get a few hits a day - around a hundred in a normal month. Then last fall something happened (I'm still not sure what) and the hits on this blog jumped to over 1000 a month and then over 2000 a month. Last month was over 2300. Not in any way a "big time" blog - but not too bad at all.
So - if my blog has gotten so popular why might this be my last post? For a few of reasons...
* It used to be easy to find random and not so random stuff to write about. That's getting a lot harder. I find myself grimacing a little when my "post on the blog" todo pops up in my task manager.
* I discovered Facebook. It's easy, quick, and I don't have to feel like I have to write a lot of text. The communication feels so much more natural and immediate. And it's not just "Mark telling you stuff" but a community dialogue.
* Blogging seems so... yesterday.
Unless someone convinces me there's a good reason to keep this blog going, this will be my last post. I'll leave the blog up for a while so those who do visit here can find out what's up - and then I'll delete it, and it will go the way of my leisure suit and my hair brush...
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