When I started Nothing Wavering six months ago, I expected to make rapid progress on additional features. However, shortly after the launch, I was promoted to Director of Software Development over my division at work. Simultaneously, my development team suddenly became smaller, so in addition to new responsibilities, we were also picking up the slack left by those who were no longer working for us. So many of my plans for Nothing Wavering had to be pushed off.
I apologize to those who have applied for inclusion in the portal and have not been added yet. I will be evaluating the remaining blogs over the next couple of weeks, as well as publishing admission guidelines so that you will know what I am looking for.
Please feel free to leave comments with your questions, comments, or suggestions, as well as any bugs you have found.
In addition to announcing new features, and newly listed blogs, I will also be linking to other blogs here that may not qualify for inclusion in the portal, but are worth your while and looking for additional readers.
Nothing Wavering will be launching some exciting new features for the Orthodox LDS Community, including a Podcast, with cutting edge technology that will allow you to record comments, questions, and podcast topic suggestions over the phone, with the potential for your recording to be included in the next podcast episode. Feel free to test it out before the first episode.
Finally, a number of people have asked for a banner to place on their blogs to show that they are part of Nothing Wavering.
Here is the image:
You can add it to your blog using the following markup:
If your blog is listed on Nothing Wavering, or if you support the vision of Nothing Wavering and want to help promote it, please consider adding it to your blog. If you need personal help adding it, I would be happy to give more detailed instructions.
Thanks! And I look forward to working with you to promote the Church on the web.
JMax,
I know this is going to be a lot of work for you. I’m impressed by your determination to make it happen and to improve the already excellent features that are offered on this aggregator.
This is great JMax, thanks. Have you given any more thought to the possibility of a Nothing Wavering Blog carnival? With everything else on your plate, I’m sure it’s not on top of the list, but the good thing is that the host of each edition does most the work.
Thanks Doc and Danithew.
Actually I have given considerable consideration to a Blog Carnival suggestion. I’ve very excited about it and it is higher on my todo list than you might think. I have been trying to move things that take less technological effort (the facebook group, twitter integration, and the carnival) to the top of the list because they are things that I can do immediately as positive steps toward building a Nothing Wavering community.
We’re going to need a carnival name. We could use “Nothing Wavering Blog Carnival” or we could do something like “Carnival of the Saints” or something generic like “LDS Blog Carnival.” I don’t have a name that really grabs me and I’m completely open to brainstorming suggestions.
In the near future I’ll be sending an email out to bloggers who are listed at Nothing Wavering to draw their attention to the changes that are happening here, and I hope to also let them know about the Carnival Plans and how it can help them increase readership and build relationships. Hopefully I can get a number of them excited about it too.
Funny you should mention it. I did my own brainstorming session with some stream of conscious writing, coming up with some ideas for titles that were mostly horrible, but some not too bad.
A few I like are
Saint Speak, (As long as it doesn’t trample Orson Scott Card’s copyright
by dividing in two words)
LDS Linkfest
Best of Bloggernacle*- uses an appellation some don’t take kindly to
Mormon Bloggernacle Choir- oldschool
Here is the list of others in case they strike your fancy, or make you groan as the case may be;
Mormonalia, Cyberstake Conference, Mormonitoring, spiritual de lo habitual
meaningful musings, E-Ensign, Web Ward, curious workmanship, the Song of Redeeming Love, Mormon musings, Latter Day Letters, Of Good Report, Spiritual Feast, Spiritfest, LDS blog carnival, mormon minds, Envisioning Zion, Come to Zion, Carnival of Zion, Mormonics, Carnival of Saints, one heart, many voices, Celestial Carnival, Refiner’s fire, Minds and hearts, eyes of understanding, zion’s blogosphere, out of the best blogs, Redeeming reading, line upon line, All things LDS, internet inspiration, LDS considered, and Powerful posts
I just tried placing the banner on the M* sidebar, but no image displayed. Odd! I will try it again later. Thanks for letting me know about the new banner.
Brian,
Try it again. I’ve updated the code to display properly in my post so hopefully when you copy and paste it it wont use curly quotes. Let me know if it is still not working.
Wow, Doc, that’s quite a list. I like Of Good Report, Carnival of Saints (or Carnival of The Saints), Line Upon Line, and Out of the Best Blogs. However, part of the goal of Nothing Wavering is search engine optimization and attracting new readership for those blogs that participate, so I feel like we probably need to use LDS and Blog in the name so that people searching for LDS blogs using Google are more likely to find it.
How about:
Line Upon Line: Carnival of LDS Blogs
a monthly blog carnival organized by NothingWavering.org
What do you think? Other possibilities?
I think that title works just fine, except I might also put the periodicity in the title like-
Line upon line-
The monthly LDS blog carnival brought to you by Nothing wavering
Max, I just added the Nothing Wavering button to my Keepapitchinin sidebar. In the interest of obsessive compulsive neatness, is there a way for me to shrink the button ever so slightly so that it is the same size as the other two in my sidebar? or would that require your creating a whole new button? (I’ve got ten technological thumbs and am still dazed that I managed to get the button pasted in the right place.)
I don’t know what you-all are talking about re a carnival, but the title sounds fun. I’ll see if I can find your earlier discussion about it, in case it is something I can join in on.
Ardis, thanks for the feedback. I’ll create a few alternative banner sizes and email code for you to use.
The carnival doc refers to was proposed in an email. I’ll be posting about it in detail soon.