My 25th wedding anniversary is next summer, so Laura and I have been giving some thought to how we should celebrate. She loves tropical places and I love the mountains. The big island of Hawaii comes to mind as a place that would fit both of those. Image my dismay when Laura came to me [...]
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TechRepublic points us to a British study which concluded that workplace profanity can boost morale. Huh? For me, a completely profanity-free workplace is a huge benefit of working on a church staff, although we do allow the occasional minced oath for comic effect. We even sang a song in staff chapel with the word “freaking” [...]
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Has anyone out there checked out Foldera? Does this technology address in any way Tony’s series of posts about document management? For this to be useful, would it have to be integrated with Google Docs and Gmail?
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Earlier this week Matt Carlisle of Big Heart Design did a phone interview with Chuck Russell, Resurrection’s Director of Internet Communications, and edited it into a podcast. If you want to know more of the thinking behind our recent website redesign, you’ll find this 41-minute podcast fascinating.
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Resurrection is in the middle of the annual campaign to get pledges for the next year’s operating fund. I’ve personally been involved in a lot of data analysis and list generation for the different segments in our target. Since I have fund raising on the brain right now, Katya Andresen’s post yesterday about convincing people [...]
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Monday through Wednesday this week the senior staff of Resurrection took a bus trip to visit Willow Creek and Granger. Andrew Conard, one of our pastors, blogged the trip well. He began with a post about the Willow Creek visit, then a post about the Granger visit, and finally a post explaining the purpose of [...]
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Some time ago I stumbled across TechRepublic’s 13 questions to help you evaluate how you’re doing as an IT manager. It’s challenging and helpful for me to review every month or two. Here they are: Technology changes everyday. Can you list three examples of things you’re doing to keep your technical knowledge current? Your boss [...]
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I waited a few weeks to see if anyone else would post more about the RoundTable. Just two more have appeared. I’m linking them here so I have all of them in one place. (I still have a huge smile on my face from the event. Thanks everyone, it was really, really cool!) Tony Dye:http://tonydye.typepad.com/main/2007/10/fall-citrt-pers.htmlhttp://tonydye.typepad.com/main/2007/10/roundtable-phot.html
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I’m with the senior staff of Resurrection on a bus trip to visit Willow Creek and Granger. My phone has EVDO and will work as a modem. But being the geek that I am, I just had to give my fellow staff way for them to also have Internet access during the 9-hour bus rides [...]
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Tonight I’m thinking a lot about Kansas State University’s “Digital Ethnography” program and the light it sheds on our Internet Campus strategy. If you haven’t see them, check out these videos: Information R/evolution The Machine is Us/ing Us A Vision of Students Today
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