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Leaders are Learners

I am always on the prowl for good leadership resources: books, dvd's, mp3's, etc.  When I attend a conference I often buy sessions and workshops that I could not attend at sites like these ($3.50-$30): National Youth Ministry Conference (Now the Simply Youth Ministry...

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Leadership Development in Youth Ministry

Tim, over at TimSchmoyer.com just posted a great interview with Rick Lawrence from Group Magazine about Leadership Development.  It's worth the watch. Visit YouthMinistry.com/conference for more info about the National Youth Ministry Conference.  Me and some of the...

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My Best of 2008

2008 was a big year for me and tech. It seems like a lot of the tools that I use everyday were not part of my workflow a year ago. Not all of them were new in 2008, but they became part of my everyday life this year. Maybe they can help you too. Twitter - Love it or...

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ChurchMetrics.com

I saw this on the twitter stream this morning, and thought I would pass it along. The folks over at LifeChurch.tv launched a new free service this morning called ChurchMetrics.com to help track attendance, giving, and other key indicators of how things are going.  It...

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Backup

I know this isn't one of those exciting topics.  Listening to people talk about backing up your data is about exciting as listening to your mom tell you to eat your vegetables, but recently I was reminded about how important it is. My wife had planned a night out to...

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Illustration Gone Bad

We've all had illustrations that didn't quite work how we thought, but I've never ended up at the doctor because of one. Do you have an illustration gone bad story? Share it in the comments, and our favorite wins a download of RaceThis 2 from Simply Youth Ministry....

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Email is for old people

Every time I ask students if they got my email, they tell me they never check it. They might check their facebook or myspace, but even that is it or miss trying to communicate with them. The one thing they all seem to do is txt message, and they do it a lot. If you've...

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Delicious Library

Delicious Library

Have you ever been looking for a resource and couldn’t remember who you lent it to? That is the task set out to be remedied by Delicious Library. All your resources are entered by holding the product’s bar code up to the camera on your computer, and Delicious Library then downloads all the information including an image of the Book, DVD or CD Cover or product image of the drill, microwave, or toy from Amazon’s product database and then places them on the shelf in your virtual library.

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It’s all about SPAM

It’s all about SPAM

I ran across a few items today that made me think about SPAM, one was useful, one was funny. First the useful one: YouthMinistry.com posted this article with some tips to deal with it: 6 Tips for Managing Spam If you use e-mail much, you’ve probably received messages...

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