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Easily show live/streaming video online to donors, former students, etc.
Got this from brigata. Looksa like a great way to live stream video to people. Especially useful for communicating with to your donors, parties with returned students with current students, etc. Start streaming your Service or Project to the Web/World November 22nd, 2009 · No Comments All you need to know is… http://livestream.com They’ll take [...]
Improving Firefox Speed When it Gets Slow
It has been a while since I last posted. God has placed quite a few time challenges the last month or so. Anyway, back on… Many of you use the Mozilla Firefox browser now. In many ways it is one of the best out there, but of late, I’ve noticed that my copy has really [...]
Google is more than Search
Over the years Google has become synonymous with search. The term “Google” has even become a verb. When my son recently had a question, I told him, ”‘Google’ it.” But interestingly enough for who work with many people and want to collaborate on things. Google has become a wonderful tool to work together on projects. [...]
Powerful Event Management Made Easy – eventbrite.com
As in international student minister, have you ever had a time when you were going to host an event. For your event, you want to send invitations, have a website about it and allow people to register for the event online, perhaps even pay a registration fee. Perhaps the event is so large that many [...]
How Do I Mail Merge using Microsoft Office?
Hi all who were a part of the ISI Rocky Mountain and Plains Retreat. We had a wonderful time of rest and fun. I am thankful for the opportunity to help out with some technology stuff. I will be posting some of the documents the next couple of weeks from the time. One thing that [...]
Hosting a Concert with S. Asian Band Aradhna
The ISI Dallas Fort Worth, Texas team recently hosted the Hindi/Nepali worship Aradhna for a concert as a gift for out S. Asian student community. It was a great experience for us, our partners and students. It really brought the S. Asian loving Christian community together and also was another way to show the S. [...]
Quick Travel Tip – Inexpensive Hotels
Last month my wife and I decided last minute to take our family on vacation. Funds were tight and we wanted to go to Houston. We did a search on http://www.kayak.com (great place to get the lowest retail price for airline, hotel, rental car etc. as it scans all the major web services including expedia, [...]
Articles About Meeting New People
You’ve set up a activity to help Americans meet international students. All the details are falling into place: food, drinks, music, location, time, place… Everyone is there… and then… the AMERICANS AREN’T TALKING TO THE INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS! EVERYONE IS STANDING AROUND IN CLUMPS. Most of us have been there before. We often question if the [...]
Taking notes, Texting & e-mailing while Driving… USING YOUR VOICE! – Dial2Do
The last few weeks my wife has been getting on my case about something… You see, there are many times when I feel like I HAVE TO send a text (especially about being late) or e-mail to someone while I am driving. Or an idea comes up and I need to remind myself… What better [...]
Using Outlook and Outlook Exchange E-Mail system for ISM
I recently did a presentation on using Outlook and Outlook Exchange to help in enhancing your international student ministry. Below are the handouts for that presentation. (Down load a pdf file, See and download the slide show) Introduction What is Outlook? How is it useful? What is the difference between Outlook and Exchange? What are [...]
