Peter Krough has written an excellent article on backup in which he suggests the 321 system. It says that you should have three copies (one primary and two backups) on two different media with one off-site. Not only is this incredibly easy to remember, it really...
I, like many in our field, have ADD. That makes assigning, completing and following up on tasks an adventure with our team. It is common for us to be in a car on the way to Starbucks or walking down the hall when we remember an essential task we need to do, or we need...
It seems that although everyone makes their forms downloadable online as a PDF, almost no one formats the files as editable forms that can be filled out within acrobat reader. This means I have to download the form, print it out, fill it out by hand, and then either...
I will be honest. Today I took a longer than normal lunch so that I could watch live coverage of the Apple event on TWiT. As a self-proclaimed fanboi, I was excited and intrigued by the latest thing I didn't know I needed until Steve Jobs told me I did. All joking...
I have had an idea/problem that I have been percolating on for a while now. The basic idea was that I wanted to have copies of several specific folders on specific, different external storage solutions so that I could have them with me when I needed them....
If you are anything like me, every time you go on a camp or retreat, you come back with tons of photos (about ten of which are usually any good) and maybe even some video. Of course you want to do something cool with them, and every once in a while, you take the time...
I am constantly amazed at the tools that lifechurch.tv produces. This morning I found out about what is quite possibly the most useful of them all: Open. What is it? It's thousands of top-quality resources for churches available for free download. It's not just...
I don't know if you have ever been to a large youth ministry training conference, but they are awesome. I have been to quite a few over the years, and it's always a great time coming together with a bunch of other people that totally understand what you do, and why...
Have you ever needed to get something accomplished, known the application you needed, but been short of the cash needed to buy said necessary app? Lament no longer, AlternativeTo is here! A quick surf over to the simple website gives you more options than you need....
A friend of mine sent me this video... Hilarious. Thought we might do a quick survey to see how close this one hits to home. Which Youth Minister Rap Qualities do You Posses?(survey)
