How are you getting information to your students? Years ago you had to stick a piece of paper to a bulletin board and send home a newsletter. Remember having to actually cut clip-art out of a book? That used to be incredibly effective at getting information across to...
A while back I began an interview-style youth ministry podcast called 10-Minute Training. Now that I have published about a dozen, I feel ready to share the process here. Keep in mind that there are many ways to do this. Mine is focused on making the least amount...
It is frustrating to have to allow some app to compress you video or image files before you can upload them to your intended destination. Also frustrating is the cap on "over the air" uploading from your iPhone even when it is connected to WIFI. To top it all off, I...
Last weekend was the Simply Youth Ministry Conference, and there was lots of great training. One of the speakers, Tim Schmoyer videoed his seminar on Communicating Youth Group News with Teens and Parents and dropped it on YouTube. You can watch it here (it was really...
I finally received my invite from Google for the Google Voice service, and like a huge retreat coming down to the wire, it is getting me excited and frustrated all at the same time. The exciting part revolves around the concept that you can have one local phone number...
Here's another video from Tim Schmoyer for a session he did in the media center at the National Youth Ministry Conference last week. He talks about the tools he uses to keep the lines of communication open between him and the students and parents in his ministry....
This is for all you twitter users out there. I saw this over on CNET today, it's a listing of Six "Social Secretaries for Twitter." I thought it was a pretty good list. I use some of them and some of them I haven't heard of but are worth taking a look at (like the...
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...
