Blog Housekeeping Stuff
I manage several blogs, aka web logs, aka journals, aka whatever terminology you prefer to use. 33-50% of them are personal and the others belong to organizations I work with. I use verious blogging tools, mainly livejournal and blogger. Looking to switch some to "Wordpress", yet that is month off if all goes well. Blah, blah, blah... (Details only a web monkey would be interested in).

Redefining my blog called "Silent Eagle"

I wanted to start a seperate devotional blog, journaling my devotional thoughts and some devotional/sermonettes. But why generate too many blogs? I know "Silent Eagle" was started to chronical and journal my ventures in Royal Rangers and all related things. There ended up being a generic mix of ministry related stuff in there. And now with God handing me a "leave-of-absense" in Royal Rangers for a couple years, I figure it is time to redefine this public blog of mine.

What will be in "Silent Eagle"?

1. Recaps and looks back of experiences and such from my past 22 years in Royal Rangers
2. Usual mix of Royal Rangers rant: activities, RR development, RR ideas, etc...
3. Minstry rant: culture, administration, development, philosphy, church stuff, etc...
4. Servant leadership rant
5. Devotional, scripture, and worship thoughts
6. Devotionals & Sermonettes
7. Photos and other media from the archives
8. Etc... (Sorry, old school Royal Ranger motto, with too much use of "etc".)

Of course anything a bit too much for public eyes will get redirected to my private lj blog...

My main blog/journal is still shevdog.livejournal.com

Maybe one day I'll just transpose my "Silent Eagle" blog to lj or Word Press, since they offer more publishing options, plus better privacy settings. Regardless, I blog pretty much daily over at livejournal. I have that blog set by default to "friends-only". I hate to ask my friends to have yet another login to a website, yet you can sign up and not blog there at all, if you want to friend me there.

I know facebook let's users link to their blog. For now, I am linking "Silent Eagle" to my news feed. Any public posts from my livejournal will show up too in my news feed, plus on my livejournal app on facebook. As for myspace, I'm going more with the minimalistic approach, since myspace ain't of much value to me these days, outside of keeping track of people who refuse to convert to facebook. Also, I can't stand how cluttered and bulky myspace can get. Then again, facebook profiles can get full of clutter.

Lastly privacy in world were privacy is rare...

Personally, I like being transparent, even in moments were it ain't so pretty. Unfortunately, transparency for me only lasted 10-12 years, before I started locking things down. Main reason I started locking down most my online profiles is because of work/career. I know when I worked at VFCC, I had a handful of anonimous viewers, a lot people I worked with or who were in authority over me. Can't say for sure that this is why my days ended there 2 years ago. Regardless, it is too easy to Google a screenname or full name and get linked to profiles, services, and site that are available to the public. You never know if you can lose a job or a job opportunity???

Outside of career concerns, I rather leave it to the security settings of social networking sites to control friend access and level of access that different friends have. And reason is that in the past 2 years I've been burned a couple times in a couple different situations were trust has been betrayed and different groups of individuals have twisted things I've said/shown and used it as a weapon against me.

So I've made big changes in the past year to my policy on transparency and have done a lot of flipping, which I have hated to do. I still will be transparent, yet I've added a lot of tint to my interweb windows. Guess you'll need one of those interweb proxy cards to get through to the lobby, and then will need further access to get further inside the building. Yes, it sucks, but then again, I'm boring most the time with my rant or just talk in circles about stuff that get most people lost. So in short, most of you just want access to the lobby.

Rant Freely. Rant On.

Thanks pals and see ya on the interweb!

Shawn

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