Cheap Technology and the Ordinary Pastor–Week 3-No More Outlook For Me

Cheap Technology and the Ordinary Pastor–Week 3-No More Outlook For Me

by | Apr 20, 2009 | Featured Articles, Ordinary Pastor, Pastoral Ministry, Technology

In my quest to live off of the world of free applications for a month, I’ve shed my addiction to Microsoft’s Outlook and have completely moved to Google. I’m not sure I’ll ever go back to Outlook. Some of this I have reported on in my previous post regarding Gmail. But to be more specific in regard to Outlook: First, here’s many of the ways I used MS Outlook: Grabbing mail from multiple e-mail addresses Rules that pulled mail into particular folders. I.e., my inbox was restricted to only priority mail from church members, pastors, my wife, and a few others I needed to hear from quickly. All other mail went into the “Other” folder. MS Exchange Server. Through a tech company we have been using, they set us up with Exchange, which has allowed instant synchronizing of calendars, tasks, e-mail, and contacts. Organizing mail into folders for quick reference. I had only four folders: Inbox, Kel (my wife), Pastors, Members, Other. I could search a folder for finding an e-mail. I relied on search folders to keep up with mail that I needed to respond to but did not have the time to handle in two minutes or less. Calendar. I used a personal and a church/public folder. My public folder was available to staff and our receptionist. Tasks. I heavily used the Franklin Covey overlay for Outlook. If you know anything about the Covey system, this overlay organized Outlook to look like the Covey paper planner, and also brought e-mail in. I actually loathed to use Outlook without this overlay ““ Outlook, without this element is a...
A Week’s Worth of Tweets for 2009-04-17

A Week’s Worth of Tweets for 2009-04-17

by | Apr 17, 2009 | Twitter

So the coffee at 10:00 has me wired-I think I’ll have a little more and stay up a while. Then again … # Seems like it was a short night-maybe we’ll have a restful day. # Headed out for a haircut-well overdue-then a quick test for a video call for tomorrow in Sunday School. # Just did a skype call to Kel and the girls from church while projecting it onto a screen-we should be set for our class call to Columbia! # RT @tomascol: “The victim of Calvary is now “¦ loose and at large.”-J.I. Packer. The resurrection of Jesus changes everything. # Great morning at church-now for a quick nap. # Finishing up some work before church this evening and vacation this week! # Lee Booth about to share her testimony before being baptized http://twitpic.com/38s1o # Home from a great evening of fellowship. Getting the girls ready for bed and then packing for vacation. # Impressionistic art by Brie: http://twitpic.com/39iat # Ahhhhhhh! [?] # Enjoying a spectacular mountain sunset, a cool evening, a warm fire and a wonderful family. I love this place! (phone down-no pics yet). # Reading a Patrick Lencioni book in front of a blazing fire, while the rest of the crew naps. http://twitpic.com/3bjhy # It’s snowing! # From our loft-if only I had an @chadmartin kind if camera & skill-beautiful: http://twitpic.com/3c4oj # 22 degrees where we are-light dusting of snow everywhere. Beautiful scenery as daylight begins. # Phenomenal dinner of steak and shrimp-fun play time with the girls-great chocolate chip cookies-now listening to big band music-girls in bed # Powered by Twitter...
The Cap is Back!

The Cap is Back!

by | Apr 14, 2009 | Blogging, Personal

The Capranica has successfully moved. Thanks to the help and expertise of one excellent, Chad Martin (who you should look at using for professional photography!), we are now located at a domain name all our own. What has changed? Umm, well, not much really. I hope to be posting more (although I’m on vacation right now and really should be relaxing and not blogging ““ just ask Kel). The entire site with all the thrilling articles of the past are still located here for your enjoyment. One thing that HAS changed are the FEEDS. If you feed THE CAPRANICA, you will need to change to the following: Click HERE for RSS feeds. Subscribe to THE CAPRANICA by Email Thanks to all 10 of you who regularly read (that’s really up from some time ago). I appreciate you dropping by. Now, back to vacation . ....
The Capranica is Headed to a New Land

The Capranica is Headed to a New Land

by | Apr 12, 2009 | Blogging

The Capranica has been hosted at its present address for about three years now.  In the next week, I’ll be moving the blog to its own domain address:  thecapranica.com. That means that we’ll be suspending activity around here for a few days.  You’ll see an update here once the move is...