Picasa for Your Photos
Organizing, editing and sharing your photos with Picasa and GIMP, free downloads. Continue reading Picasa for Your Photos
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ZOOMING in (and out)
A quick tip to help you read the tiny print on your monitor. Continue reading ZOOMING in (and out)
Clear Your Plate of Bacn and Spam
I’m sure I don’t need to explain about eMail spam, but did you know you probably have bacn in your inbox, too? Bacn is eMail you’ve subscribed to, but don’t want to read RIGHT NOW. (I’m re-creating the urgency you might feel when something shows up in your inbox.) You also receive bacn in the form of automatic payroll deposits, staff news announcements, and more. I’ll show you how to make a folder in Outlook for all your bacn subscriptions so you can focus on your inbox more efficiently. Continue reading Clear Your Plate of Bacn and Spam
Best Tags and Keywords for Your Blog
Choosing the tags or keywords for your blog will encourage more people to find your posts. I made a spreadsheet of some very good keywords that you can use. These words and phrases all have high search numbers with low competition. That means a lot of people use these words in searches while few blogs use them as tags, so a search will more likely find your post.
The first four columns make it easier to find words. I chose headings for: ministry, issues, personal, and technical. You may need to check more than one column. The form of a word MIGHT matter. For instance, I searched “recommended” versus “recommendation” and also “tsunami” versus tsunamis.” What is in the spreadsheet is the best choice to use. The difference in search results is sometimes significant between these variations.
The spreadsheet is easy for you to download or print. I’ll update it occasionally.
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Color Codes and HTML for Web Design
Are you designing your own blog or web site? Here’s some help for choosing colors. If you like a public website’s colors, you can find all the color codes used by any web page using the tool on I Like Your Colors. To use official colors, follow this link to the official Cru color palette. You’ll be using the colors for “web” not for RGB or CMYK. (I explained about Cru’s official fonts and colors in an earlier post.) Visit this HTML color codes page for a full listing of color codes if you want to choose your own colors. To … Continue reading Color Codes and HTML for Web Design
Plan Ahead to Publish Regular Prayer Letters
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
eQuipping for eMinistry 