Web Overload

Filtering the World of Information and Web-Technology for Those in Need in Ministry

YouVersion.com – Online and Mobile Bible Reader

Like many others, I’ve been checking out YouVersion.com. Ok – so I’ve been mostly checking out the BlackBerry edition, but that’s just detail. Read the rest of this entry »

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Highlighted Link – Faith Engineer

On the right sidebar I list a few links to other sites that might be helpful to you.  I only list 3 under “Extra Resources” right now and that’s intentional.   I’ve decided I’d like to highlight over time each of the links I list to let you know who these folks are and my purpose for sharing their site.  As I add more, I’ll explain who they are. Read the rest of this entry »

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Good Online Software Training

lynda.com

Generally speaking, most items on this site are DIY, free or virtually free because of purpose for the site.  But a primary goal is assisting with good tools:  those things that give you good bang-for-your-minutes so you can spend more time on ministry and less on technology frustrations.

In that vein, I want to mention a resource that is not free but can produce significant time and frustration savings.  Very little costs us more time and frustration than having the software we need, but not being able to get it to do what we want.  We’ve all been there and Lynda.com can help. Read the rest of this entry »

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Having Trouble Opening Office 2007 Documents? (.docx files)

If you are noticing an increase in the number of email attachments you have trouble opening, it may be because they were created within one of the newer version of Office or Office for Mac.  You’ll know the files because they end in .docx or .docm instead of the typical .doc with which we have become familiar. Read the rest of this entry »

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