Today, I’ll share some tips to keep your camera, phone, tablet, and laptop batteries running longer and at “full capacity,” saving you money. (To understand batteries better, read this entire post and the recommended reading at the end.) Continue reading Baby Your Batteries… and Save Money
College students spend an average of five hours a day online. So, when it comes to building spiritual movements with students, everyone knows that online is important.
Our student-led leader for West Africa created training in how to use EveryStudent.com, how to respond to emails and how to use EveryStudent.com on campus, on Facebook, etc. If my math is right, he’s trained about 450 students throughout Ghana and Nigeria in the last nine months, then in Ethiopia and Kenya. Liberia is next.
You can use the same simple ideas to enhance, and even accelerate, your individual or team ministry using the internet. Sign up to receive “How to Talk about God,” a special weekly email series from EveryStudent.com to help you confidently use the internet in your ministry.
Use the great articles on EveryStudent.com and the free email series. Try these ideas for yourself and with your ministry team and then comment here to encourage others to try internet ministry! Continue reading How to Use Facebook and the Internet to Reach People for Christ (Guest Post)
Do you have a plan for publishing your newsletters? Here’s my plan and what we actually did last year.
We plan for a prayer letter every six weeks, totaling eight letters. We also send two fund appeals per year. In-between the prayer letters we send eNewsletters with some family and ministry news for the financial and prayer partners that have given us eMail addresses. This group of people hear from us every three weeks. (I also print and mail some of our eNewsletters throughout the year for top donors who don’t have eMail addresses.) We also have a handful of people who receive our letters quarterly. They’ve either told us not to spend money on writing to them or we’ve put them in this group for some other reason.
Follow these steps… Continue reading Plan Ahead to Publish Regular Prayer Letters
Do you make resolutions every January 1st? No matter what you think of resolutions, we know it takes repeated effort to form a new habit. Here’s some ideas and links for you to try for the new year.
Read the Bible through.
Do reimbursements online.
If you’ve been planning to sign up to help with EveryStudent.com, Jesus for Women, or Global Media Outreach. Why not start today?
Try my ideas to start regular correspondence with your ministry partners.
• Download and start using TntMPD
• Gather eMail addresses, birth and anniversary dates.
• Make a permanent plan for when prayer letters go out and mark it on your calendar. I’ll give you my dates in the next post.
• Write thank you notes as promptly as possible.
• Try my system to start sending birthday and anniversary cards
• Follow the links for LOTS more ideas. Continue reading Your New Year’s Resolutions
Taking a sample of ten million pairs of friends, an engineering intern at Facebook created this data map to show which cities had a lot of friendships between them. (Read how he did it.)
Not surprisingly, you can even detect some political borders in the data. Logically, many people would have most friends within their country. I also noticed a lot of connections between North and South America and also between Europe and North Africa, roughly from the Strait of Gibraltar to the Gulf of Tunis. Iceland, Russia, and other countries don’t appear (as a country shape) in the data map, but it’s possible to see where Reykjavik, Iceland, and Moscow, Russia, are located.
I’m a visual learner and love data, so I found this data map fascinating. What does this image tell you? Continue reading Facebook Friends around the World
If you have a mobile phone, you might be interested in downloading the free Google Goggles app, especially (but not necessarily) if you do a lot of traveling. This mobile app allows you to do searches with images. You take a photo of something and then search: in order to locate information about a book on the internet to identify a landmark to translate an item on a menu to identify products and artwork You can also take a photo of a business card and move the information to the contact list on your phone. How are you using Google … Continue reading Google Goggles
eQuipping for eMinistry 