January 31, 2012

Guest Post: Eliminating Inner Team Email With Nozbe

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This post originally appeared on the Getting Things Done with Nozbe blog. I have reposted it here for those who are looking for a better way to manage and communicate on committee projects, elders, preachers, etc. Nozbe is a great project management tool.

Special Offer From Studio Press

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Here is a great deal for the Genesis Framework. This is what I use for all my websites. It offers a very easy to use and powerful design framework with a wide range of themes for WordPress. I used the Genesis Framework with the News child theme for PreacherNorm.net. I was going for a strait forward  [...]

How To Integrate Evernote, Email and Twitter with Nozbe

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These are all apps that I use regularly, every day. Evernote is my “catch-all” note taker. Email is my primary source of communication. Twitter is how I keep up with current events and interesting people. Nozbe is how I bring them all together into actionable tasks to get things done. This video will show you [...]

ZAGG Love

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As most of you know, The Productive Preacher blog is primarily for helping those of us who preach to apply the Getting Things Done (GTD) principles of productivity to our very busy work of ministry. Most of you probably also know how much I love finding ways to use my favorite GTD gadgets. There are a lot of great apps for iPhone, iPad and Mac that I use heavily. In his books, David Allen says that finding gadgets that you love using is helpful in sticking to the system. If you’re like me, you also have your favorite GTD gadgets and apps. But carrying gadgets comes with some concern over how to best protect them. No one wants to get a shiny new gadget just to see it get scratched up and worn out with use. So we buy cool cases and screen protectors and bags in the search for the best way to protect our devises. I know there are a lot of nightmare stories of buying cases and bags that only let our gadgets get scratched up and busted and, not only did we have to replace the gadget, we also had to continue our search for the perfect case. Well my search is over now that I’ve found ZAGG!

Productive Magazine Is Now An iPad App

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The latest issue of one of my favorite productivity magazines is out. I highly recommend it and now they have an iPad app that makes reading it even more enjoyable. Go over to Productive Firm and download the free PDF version or get the iPad app from the Apple App Store. The articles that I [...]

An Overview of GTD

The “Getting Things Done” productivity system is, by far, the best I’ve seen. It is a system that is easily integrated and highly effective. One of the keys to implementing the system is making the GTD workflow your “normal” way of working.

To Switch Or Not To Switch?

I’m seeing more and more preachers switching to the Mac as they upgrade their computer equipment. I made my switch nearly two years ago now. When people ask me my opinion on switching from PC to Mac all I can say is that it would take some major persuading to get me to switch back to PC.

When I moved to Danville, VA I was doing a live TV program. The graphics for the program were controlled by my computer. I would go into the studio and plug my Acer notebook into their control board and run the backdrop with PowerPoint. I was in front of green screen but what the audience saw was me standing in front of my PowerPoint presentation. I had not been doing the program long when my Acer crashed in the middle of a live broadcast. The next day I went to Office Depot and bought a Toshiba notebook. I had used a Toshiba before and really liked it so I thought this would be the answer to my TV production needs. WRONG! It didn’t take long until the presentation, graphics and video demands of doing the TV program were crashing my Toshiba. I had been thinking of switching to Mac for a while so when the Toshiba crashed in the middle of a live broadcast I decided I was done with PCs and would give Macs a try. I ordered the 13″ MacBook White that I’m writing on right now.

Eight Tips For Writing Effective Sermon Titles

These eight tips were first presented in “The Copywritter’s Handbook” by Bob Bly. I read them on one of my favorite blogs, CopyBlogger, and thought they related very strongly to what every preacher learns about the importance of effective sermon titles.

Here they are: