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Early this week I sent an e-mail to a co-worker at another office.
I waited a couple days for a response and after not receiving one, I called to see if they had gotten it.
“No – I only check my email every three or four weeks.”
HOW! How does someone working in a modern office, with e-mail not check it at least once a week?
Today I needed to send information to that same person and offered to send it via e-mail.
They told me “No. I don’t ever check my e-mail. Just send it with someone next time they come over here.”
Being that it was at least semi-urgent, I offered to fax the information to them.
And that was fine they said.
How do you encourage or get someone to check their e-mail more often than three to four weeks?
We have an 87 year-old-woman that works in the same office and she uses Microsoft Word and will type up responses to any e-mails I print for her.
I would imagine that if I actually networked her old Macintosh, she would learn to check her e-mail and respond to it daily.
My fear would be that she would get too many e-mails and respond to each of them.
She does have her own fan club (well sort of).
Any ideas on encouraging e-mail use within the office.
It just seems so time consuming and inefficient to do things any other way – especially when you’re working at different offices and neither person is in the office all day.

Lifeway.com has an article on how blogging can change your church

The April 5th issue of Business Week magazine had as their cover topic ‘Blogs will change your business.’ The article was both interesting and thought provoking. The article focused on the trend of blogging and how businesses will need to tap into this tread to stay current.

So what is your church or ministry doing?

Well, the press called – wait – no they didnt. I waited till 6:40 and finally called them, after they said they’d call me in 10 minutes at 6:03.
So I’ve caught up on some of my blog reading – then there’s the podcasting. I should really listen to those more often, but at work I need music to keep me going, not more gibber jabber.
I’m in a funny mood tonight. Maybe it has to do with my paper being belittled by my publisher and thinking I wasn’t concerned about the print costs and other things it takes to put a newspaper out. Anyways, I believe it’t time to head home.
I think I’ll bring my laptop home with me for a change. I think I’m in the mood for more blog reading, research and a glass of wine – or maybe scotch. Hmmm.
Oh – about my title. I use RSS Reader 1.0 to read my blogs. I like its cause its free. But one thing I’ve noticed is that it constantly grabs old blog entries, that I’ve already read and downloads them and then flags them as new. What gives?
Any ideas? Maybe I should just wise up and buy a reader rather than trust one that’s given away for free.
I’ll keep you posted – Maybe.
Until next time — I’ll see you on the flip side.

Common Sense writes:

We only asked them to do one thing this year, get school financing done. But they couldn’t do it. So they called a month-long special session. They still couldn’t do it. These have got to be the most useless people on the planet. I know we don’t pay them much, but still, they could do some actual work. The only thing they did accomplish was to make gay marriage illegal… again!

And to think they gave themselves a raise this year.

Is your ministry or organization blogging? Why the heck not? Church Marketing Sucks writes:

Some days I feel like I’m beating a dead horse, but in case you’ve missed our previous calls for pastors to blog, maybe you’ll listen to General Motors vice chairman Bob Lutz. For those who don’t know, he’s one of the most well-known corporate bloggers. Some days I feel like I’m beating a dead horse, but in case you’ve missed our previous calls for pastors to blog, maybe you’ll listen to General Motors vice chairman Bob Lutz. For those who don’t know, he’s one of the most well-known corporate bloggers.

Read it.

Be A Design Group writes:

“What if you could project an advertisement onto any surface? Imagine a 7000 watt projector that could bounce logos and images off of buildings, signs, or anything you pointed it at. You could put it in a van and drive around flashing images all over a city. Sound like science fiction? Well, believe it or not, the technology exists, and it is starting to catch on.”

How cool is that? What if churches travelled and rather than a simple “First Baptist Church of Timbucktoo” on the side of the van they were playing videos with simple gospel messages on the buildings they passed.
Anyone want to buy a portable projector and work on it with me?