Technology
Place to make easy but beautiful websites for ministries
I saw this on Brigada the other day. I haven’t used it yet. Have any of you? Share what you think in the comments… 1) The #1 Flashiest Website Around: Clover is Easy, Snazzy, Fast — Yesterday I asked my two sons what they thought about the new Team Expansion website, now staged at CloverSites: [...]
Microsoft Live! Products are Alive and Well! and really Useful
I don’t know how many of you google docs or apps or any of the office live products… but I found this blog post at winvistclub about all the Microsoft LIVE! websites. I never knew how many things there were and most if not all of this is free and handy for what we do… [...]
Cool new deal, apps on the iphone
I use WordPress, iContact and eventbrite a lot. It is a significant part of my ministry tool kit. Just recently I found that all three have apps on the iPhone. This allows me to make changes, send e-mails, write blog posts, enter people for an event… all sorts of things remotely using my iPhone. So, [...]
Sticky Notes that you can work with
StickySorter – http://www.officelabs.com/projects/stickysorter/Pages/default.aspx – Cool new app from Microsoft Office Labs that allows you to create sortable, groupable, moveable sticky notes on your computer that exports to and imports form excel. Great for brainstorming and Strategic Planning using a data projector and saving the results.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Safety of Skype Overseas
Let me preface this post with the following caveat. I am not an expert in internet security and what I present is my impressions of what I’ve read on the internet. Just recently I received an e-mail from a colleague asking if it is safe to use Skype to communicate with people in China. She [...]
A Nonprofit’s Guide to Building Simple, Low-Cost Websites (from techsoup)
Affordable solutions for planning, creating, and maintaining your organization’s online presence By: Chris Peters from techsoup, July 13, 2009 Editor’s note: We recommend reading this article in conjunction with Tips for Designing (or Redesigning) a Nonprofit Website to get a more complete picture of options to create a well-designed, affordable, website and the process you [...]
