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Follow up on Tatango and Mass Text Messaging
I just received an e-mail from Tatango and found that they no longer offer the free texting option (as stated in the post). I received a comments from an ISMer in St. Louis about another options for mass text messaging. Here is his message. I have a friend that has a business that can do [...]
Facebook Stormed by a Trojan Horse (not a virus)
Just recently an ISI person was infected with a Trojan horse on Facebook that was sent to all the staff. Fortunately, the national office was able to send a note to stop people from opening the message averting major problems. A questions was asked about what types of viruses reside on Facebook and what can [...]
A Facebook URL to call Your Own to Share
Today on June 13, Facebook added the ability to define your own URL for your facebok page. From now on your facebook page can have the form, “facebook.com/thenameyouwant.” At first glance this may look like an attempt by facebook to capitalize on people’s narcissistic tendencies. Perhaps, but for us who do international student ministry it [...]
Using Text Messaging & Voicemail to Communicate with Many Students – Tatango
Imagine that you are managing a large event at the park with international students. Just as you arrive, a huge storm suddenly hits. It is too late to use e-mail or Facebook and many of yours students don’t even know what twitter is. Actually, they hardly every use e-mail anyway so that won’t help. You [...]
Twitter Tweet Cheat Sheet
It was great meeting many of you at ACMI this last weekend. I hope that we will be able to connect more in the future. During one of my workshops someone asked for a cheat sheet for Twitter. Here is one made by Jason Theodor on his blog, JasonTheodor.com.
ACMI 2009 Plenary & Workshop Presentations about Web 2.0 & Resource Notes
Welcome back all from ACMI 2009. It was a true pleasure meeting many of you. Here is a resource sheet from my workshop at ACMI 2009 at Azusa Pacific University, June 2009, which has a lot of links to important sites etc. related to ISM Ministry. Here is a link to the video that I [...]
Tracking What is Going On: RSS Feeds, Blogs and News Articles – HOW DO I FOLLOW THIS BLOG?
One of the blessings of the internet is the amount of information available, produced nearly daily. One of the banes of the internet is the large amount of information available and produced every day. It can be overwhelming. While google and other search engines are a great way to find things we often find sites [...]
How do I do something? – Sites That Show you How…
Growing up, when you needed to know how to do something. There were very few sources to find them. First, you probably went to your parents, and if they didn’t have some homespun advice, you went to the library to look for books like Ask Heloise or something like that. One of the blessing of [...]
Getting “Personalized” E-mails/Newsletter to Many People on a Regular Basis
One of the important roles in ministry is getting the story of ministry to our various constituents. Whether it is a newsletter to donors, a prayer alert to prayer partners, a event update to students, or follow-up report to the university, we often required to communicate with large numbers of people quickly and yet in [...]
What in the world is Twitter? and Why Should I care as a International Student Minister?
One question I am commonly asked is, “What is twitter and why should I care?” This is a very valid question.This is especially true of late as many famous people have recently migrated on to twitter including the likes of Oprah, Ashton Kutcher (1.6 million followers), Shaq, the local weather man, etc. Twitter often defy’s [...]
