Tech-learning Opportunities at CSU2013


Mike and I were smiling after our near-panicky elevator ride on the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine tour (taken July 2011 in Cripple Creek, Colorado). If you’re claustrophobic, don’t take the tour. It was a cram-as-many-students-in-a-phonebooth-50s-style experience. Add total darkness and a descent of 100 stories and you get the picture.

Are you enjoying a little downtime before or after CSU2013? What are you recommending? We’re heading out Thursday for Colorado with a stop in Leadville before Staff Training. Continue reading Tech-learning Opportunities at CSU2013

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Why You Should Send eMail News


at sign for e-mailOf course you know that the more our donors hear from us (and in a variety of ways), the more connected they are with us and with our ministry. Your financial partners are either giving because they love you and/or because they click with your calling. Make sure your paper prayer letters and your eNewsletters speak to both types of partners.

Take A.I.M.

Long ago, someone offered a framework for what to communicate with our financial partners. I try to have a balance in these every year in all our communication:

  1. Appreciation
  2. Information
  3. Ministry (minister to them, get them involved in ministry, …)

I’d include “getting-to-know each other” in addition to A.I.M. Continue reading “Why You Should Send eMail News”

Twitter News and CSU2013


Have you subscribed to e4e: Best of CCC Tweets (published by this blog through paper.li)? Currently, the paper features blog posts from some of our staff and leadership, plus links to other articles that they share on Twitter. Twitter links are “translated” into a readable newspaper format. You don’t need to have a Twitter account to read the paper.

If you’re on staff with Campus Crusade for Christ and think your tweets would contribute to this paper, tweet me or send an eMail to sus.schmitt at CCC.org or comment below. (Only tweets with links are published in paper.li.)

Recent Additions

e4e’s online newspaper will be even better with two new additions.

Imagine my surprise when I realized that eQuipping for eMinistry (e4e) posts weren’t showing up in e4e’s own paper! I added e4e this morning. Continue reading “Twitter News and CSU2013”

Are You Interested in a Mentoring Opportunity at CSU2013?


Is it hard for you to find a friendly techie who can explain things in a way that you understand? (Often, a staff woman may prefer a woman to help her with her tech needs.) Are you interested in giving or receiving one-on-one tech help at CSU2013? Have I described you? If so, we’d love to connect you with a “mentor.” Continue reading Are You Interested in a Mentoring Opportunity at CSU2013?