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This past Sunday night, I watched the first installment of “The Bible” on the History Channel. As a Christian, I was very interested in how the stories would be portrayed.

I couldn’t watch the series live, because I was in church when it began. I really didn’t plan to watch it that night. Then, I checked Facebook and Twitter.

People were going crazy over it — in a good way. They were tagging @bibleseries on Twitter and posting play-by-play commentary on Facebook. As a result, I was compelled to start the playback on the DVR. Immediately, I was hooked.

Since then, we have learned the first installment of this mini-series was the most-wacthed show in its time slot. There are three reasons why I believe this series is so popular.

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For the past several weeks, I have been perusing the Internet for information about WordPress for newspapers. Currently, the publications I serve are on Joomla and I really would like to make the switch to a different CMS.

You can imagine my excitement when I ran across a video from Toronto WordCamp 2012 titled, “WordPress for Newspapers.”

I downloaded the video and scheduled some time to sit back and take in the knowledge that I so desperately wanted.

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(CC) Richard Riley Via Flickr. Modified by David Specht

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If I were to compare myself to Michael Hyatt, I would feel pretty inadequate. Michael’s “Intentional Leadership” blog has more than 305,000 total subscribers. I have 10 (as of this writing).

His blog averages more than 302,000 unique visitors per month. Mine averages 164.

Michael has nearly 167,000 Twitter followers. I have 167.

Sounds pretty depressing doesn’t it? Well, it isn’t depressing at all.

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