(Editor’s note: This post is about tweaking Gmail’s new “Priority Inbox” feature. If you haven’t used it yet, or if it’s confusing or new for you, Google has a great intro video to Priority Inbox that’s short and sweet.) Many times of the day I’m living out of Gmail. I’m always looking for ways to… Read more
One of my greatest weekly productivity challenges is minimizing time spent on short-term, low return activities. The Strong Week Plan, developed by Marcus Buckingham (author of Now Discover Your Strengths and many others), significantly helped me in this area. It’s founded on four questions: What percentage of last week did you spend doing things you… Read more
Every conversation about technology and productivity–especially in ministry contexts–needs to consider the effects of technology and productivity mismanagement and addiction. If you’re anything like me, you can waste the best hours of your morning dealing with email and with requests and tasks that arrive via email–despite the fact that there are plenty of probably more… Read more
If you’re not using Dropbox, you should be. It’s one of the most useful applications I use, I use it every single day, and — best of all — it’s free. What is Dropbox? From the Dropbox website: Dropbox allows you to sync your files online and across your computers automatically. What does that mean?… Read more
Sometimes it can seem that the amount of excellent content created and presented for weekly meetings can go to waste when it’s only accessible once. Podcasts are a great way to record and make available audio and video content from your ministry. Podcasts can include either video or audio, but since I’m most familiar with… Read more
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Brian Barela, Brian Chang, Gordon Govier, Micheal Hickerson, Adam Jeske, Barney Lin, Berry Long, Dave Paladino, Brian Sun, Steve Tamayo