Blog Changes are Here

As we prepare for the upcoming national broadcasts, it occurred to me that after nearly two years of blogging on Women Praying Boldly, it was time for a blog face lift. You know, if blogs had faces. And as with a real face lift, I'm working to make this as seamless as possible!

(If you're new to the site, welcome! You can safely ignore the next few paragraphs. If you're a returning reader and wondering why things look so different, please read on.)

The biggest part of the change is that we moved from Ning to Typepad. Though most of this change is behind the scenes, changing our hosting service means a big change for our community.

A Central Gathering Place—Rather than having lots of small groups and individual blogs like we did on Ning, we've shifted into one large WPB group on Facebook. This gives everyone a central place to gather and connect, hopefully making our conversations more engaging for more women and thereby, more fruitful.

More Integrated—Get Married is one of several projects I'm focusing on now. By moving this site to Typepad, I'm able to more easily move between our several projects including my other book (co-authored with my husband Steve): Start Your Family: Inspiration for Having Babies, and the Boundless Line blog (and Boundless.org webzine). I'm hopeful this will make it easier to blog more often and cover more topics, as well as make it easier for you to be involved in our other ministry efforts.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the changes as they roll out over the next two weeks leading up to the first broadcast on August 31. Feel free to email me.

Comments

[Rachel V]

It seems as though there are two groups on Facebook....which one is yours,or the official one?

[Candice Watters]

Hey Rachel, thanks for asking. The official group is here:
http://bit.ly/ZfDnm
You can get to it using the URL above or the FB icon in the right hand column on my blog.

The other group was started by Marlys Allard after she read Get Married. She wanted a place for like-minded women to connect on FB. Seeing as she started her group nearly 2 years ago, she was the forward-looking one! ;)

[Andrea H.]

w00t on the blog changes, Candice! Looks great! And this format is probably more conducive to the group members conversing more fully and more quickly. (Which is one of the objectives you were changing for.)

Great work! And thank you!!!

~ Andrea-Elena ~

[Candice Watters]

How was the office event? I hope you had fun even on a "bad hair day"-- and good for you for pressing through. I know how hard that is; still experience it!

Thanks for coming to the new site. Glad you like it!

[Andrea H.]

Seriously?! YOU have bad hair days? Naw. ;o)

Went well as far as the ministry aspect goes. Threads and Operation Christmas Child are partnering to encourage young adults to participate. I was the only person from my dept. to go, so I get to be the cheerleader to get our folks to make up boxes. (We'll have an internal collection point, corporationwide.)

But my ol' paranoia raised its ugly head at one point. Was afraid some people were talking about me. I HATE that feeling. And I hate that I still allow those feelings to dictate my behaviors sometimes.

Didn't meet any single dude prospects. But it was good practice. Every time I make myself go to one of these things, it makes it easier to go the next time.

It was worth it to have inspiration about OCC and to chat with other employees.

[Candice Watters]

Yeah! So glad you went through with it. And what better place than a ministry opportunity. I think it's best when we shine because we're being Christ-like! May God make you fruitful as you minister. -C