Posts Tagged ‘Tools’
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Sometimes I have a problem slowing down. I feel like if I am not “busy” I am not being productive. But I think I have come to the realization that breaks are necessary. My family and I are heading out of town tomorrow for 2 days for a little vacation. We’re renting a condo up […]
Tags: Break, Pomodoro, Time Management, Tools, Vacation, work
Posted in Advice | No Comments »
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
Many companies (churches and ministries included) are anxious to build a great website, but have not thought about strategy. They have grandiose ideas about what their website will look like, but they have not thought about the purpose behind the website.
Tags: Blog, Church, Communications, Culture, Design, Ministry, Online, Social Media, Strategy, Tools, Web, Website, Websites
Posted in Strategy | 12 Comments »
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
There are dozens of great Twitter applications on the market today. Many of them have started to integrate support for other social media services. One of the new kids on the blog is a Mac application called Socialite. Socialite is fully featured social media app that gives the old school apps a run for their money.
Tags: Apps, Digg, Facebook, Flickr, Google, Reviews, RSS, Social Media, Socialite, Tools, Twitter
Posted in Reviews | 3 Comments »
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
WordPress is the application I use to power most of the websites I build. In fact, unless a client requires me to use another system, I use WordPress exclusively. There are a few great applications out there, but in my opinion WordPress is the best. Here’s why:
Tags: Applications, Design, Online, Reviews, Software, Tools, Web, Website, Websites, WordPress
Posted in Reviews, Tools | 7 Comments »
Friday, October 16th, 2009
I regularly use Time Machine to backup my files to an external hard drive. This is great if my laptop hard drive fails, but what happens if there is a fire and my external drive gets burned up along with my laptop? What happens if a thief breaks in and takes everything? I would lose […]
Tags: Applications, Backblaze, Cloud, Computers, Hard Drive, mozy, Online Backup, Reviews, Storage, Tools
Posted in Reviews | 7 Comments »
Monday, October 12th, 2009
In my efforts to become more minimalistic, I have removed all unnecessary applications from my dock. At first it seemed to be a little more of a burden than a help since I was often visiting the Application folder. But then I remembered about a little program for the Mac called Google Quick Search Box.
Tags: Applications, Google, google quick search box, Mac, Reviews, Time Management, Tools
Posted in Reviews | 3 Comments »
Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
If you have been following this series, by now you should have a pretty good grip on social life on the web. But maybe you want to step it up a notch and go for the Grand Daddy of life online and get a blog of your own. That’s great, but where do you start? […]
Tags: Blog, Blogging, Micro-Blogging, Social Media, Tools, Tumblr, WordPress
Posted in Tutorials | 2 Comments »
Thursday, September 24th, 2009
So now you have your Gravatar, and you’re plugged in to a social network or two. You will notice shortly that it is easy to get overwhelmed with the amount of information that is out there. Checking a dozen blogs each day can be taxing on your time and is not very productive. It gets […]
Tags: Blog, Blogging, Feed, Google, Google Reader, RSS, Subscription, Tools
Posted in Tutorials | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
Hopefully you went out and got yourself a Gravatar after reading the last post. Now we can move on to Social Networks. There are literally thousands of social networking services out there, so this can’t be a full-blown review of all of them — or any for that matter. What this post will do is […]
Tags: Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Online, Social Networking, Social Networks, Tools, Tutorials, Twitter
Posted in Social Media | 5 Comments »
