A group of New Zealand women who blog gathered at a luncheon yesterday in Takapuna to exchange ideas on lifting their blogs to the next level, and sharing goodness as they go.
“The world needs more wonderful individuals like these women,” said their luncheon host Linda Champlin, a public affairs missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
“It’s getting darker and darker in the world and more and more people are needed to share goodness and light.”
Janet Anderson, a law school graduate now dedicating herself to being a full-time mom, helped organize the event and travelled from her home in Tauranga to participate.
Next to her family, blogging is her passion. “Everyone has a purpose in their life and it takes a while to find it,” says the blogger behind motivatememommy.com.
“It took me some time to find the final focus of my blogging, but now I know it is to be invited into the homes of young mothers to help and encourage them. And to share what we have in common - both the good and the difficult.”
During their get-together the women learned more ways to share positive messages and how to access ideas from the many internet sites and social media platforms provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
“The Church’s websites are a great source for helping communicate your messages effectively. They are loaded with positive, uplifting messages to help in everyday life,” said Champlin.
“They can also help anyone share the gospel of Jesus Christ through their everyday blogging, and His gospel is the ultimate in goodness.”
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Others who participated in the noon-time exchange of ideas included littlemrslavelua.com blogger Caitlin Lavelua and pillingsworth.com blogger Kayne Pilling who blogs on a variety of topics. A recent post was on a friend’s Demons of Depression.
Ati Nemaia, whose most recent post on her blog at atinemaia.blogspot.com was on Post Natal Blues, also participated along with pacificldswomen@wordpress.com blogger Kaveinga Lisati.
Looking toward the future the “Sharing Goodness” bloggers are planning a seminar in a few months for all interested bloggers who want to learn about all aspects of blogging to include increasing followers, monetizing a blog, developing story ideas, finding the right "look” for a blog, staying motivated, starting a blog and being a light to others.