I have a confession to make. My life is out of control. OK, that may be a little dramatic, but over the last 6 months I've allowed myself to become more and more disorganized. A lot of it has to do with the number of projects and things I've needed to get done have...
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...
I've started using this service a little while ago to organize the different trips that I take, and with summer coming up travel season will be in full swing. The service is call Tripit, and it's an easy way to keep different trip information in one place, and...
A few weeks ago I let me MobileMe account expire. I was a decision that I've been contemplating for awhile. I had mentioned it over Twitter and someone asked what I decided, so I thought I would share my reasoning why I decided I no longer needed to spend $99 a year...
Summer's coming, and we are all gearing up for traveling with busloads (or church vanloads) of teens to random places throughout the country for camps, mission trips and all around fun. But how do you know where to stop for lunch? How can you find the exit or town...
This may not be super geeky, but it's a super great deal. You can pick up Youth Leader Training on the Go for only $7.99 (Retail $29.99). It's a great resource from Doug Fields for keeping your volunteers trained and encouraged. It contains 52 training sessions...
I written about SimplyTxt before, but I wanted to highlight a new feature: Reply. Now when you send out a text to an individual or a group they can reply back and you get the message in your "Message Stream." It always was a great tool to blast out messages to your...
I've got some questions lately about the teaching series that you can get at SimplyYouthMinistry.com, so I thought I would talk about how they've helped me save time as a teacher. First, thing that sets them apart is that they are almost all downloadable. I love that....
This may not be very geeky, but I thought it was funny. I had many conversations lately about getting out of debt and watching family budgets that I thought this was timely also. It seems we as Americans could be in a better place if we would have followed this simple...
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....
