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My kids are cute.

So take a look at them,

but also notice how amazing this web gallery is that I made with iPhoto.
I didn’t even try. I just put the photos in an iPhoto album and clicked “web gallery.”

It automatically synced with my .mac account and created the webpage and gave me a link to share. You can preview the photos in multiple ways, including in “CoverFlow” style ipodesque.

You can also download the high-res version to go make your own prints.

I just pushed one button.

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Leopard – Top ten tips

Guy Kawasaki posted a top ten leopard tips post from Take Control Books.

He added a few.

And i would add another.

#13 Stop opening files to see what’s in them.
Highlight just about any file, click the spacebar and let Leopard give you a preview without slowing down your computer by opening programs.

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Leopard – Feature Love – To Do List and Notes in Mail

I love how Mail in Leopard now has “To Do Lists” and “Notes.”  

Special Features of Mail/iCal’s To Do Lists: 

• Synced with iCal
• Categorized by iCal Calendar (home, work, soccer schedule, etc…)
• Deadlines on to do’s (pick up milk for the cake batter by Wednesday at 4pm)
• Alarms (Little reminders through email our alarm beeps that remind you to do what you told yourself you need to do. 
• All shared over .mac or your network so they sync on multiple systems.

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Leopard – Feature Love – RSS in Mail

One of my favorite new features in Leopard is the ability to have RSS Feeds in Mail. Mail is the mac equivalent of Outlook – Though both have features that the other should dream of and aren’t really equals…
When new items post on a blog I’m following, it will come into an inbox in my mail program just for RSS. Now, it’s almost like bloggers are sending me mail, even though they don’t know they are…. 
I love it.  

I barely have to hop into Safari.

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Leopard is running. fast. not like cheetah fast. but definitely faster than a tiger.

Leopard has been running on my mac for about 2 hours now.
It’s a beautiful thing. The first thing I noticed is that safari is screaming fast. The animation of everything is absolutely beautiful. Not sure about the new Finder yet.
Stacks are my new best friend.

Absolutely love the simplicity of them and the look doesn’t hurt either.

Safari all of a sudden has a fantastic RSS reader. No need for bloglines. 
I’m going to keep playing this weekend. 

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Patient Geeking…from a talented artist.

Check out this time-consumptive work from Caleb Coppock

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GEEKING OUT!

So I’m not a geek, but I play one on TV…
Ok, I am a geek in real life too…

Since January of ’07, I’ve been heading up our IT direction at Sanctuary in addition to communications, web and design. Some things are finally coming to fruition.

At the end of 4 days of Mac OS X Server Essentials training, I was able to configure 4 servers from installation, with 1 Open Directory Master, 2 File Servers with windows and apple file sharing, and 1 Netboot server all talking to each other with multiple users, multiple workgroups, multiple sharepoints, varying levels of directory access, application and file permissions, vpn access, multiple printers, ftp file access and much more, all in under an hour.

Beautiful, intuitive, APPLE.

With a bunch of new iMacs and iBooks to replace our dying Dell Desktops, we should be golden…

And when Leopard Server comes out in a month with new ical server, podcast producer, wikis, and time machine….well, this is what the simplified productivity is really about….!

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MinistryCom – My Day 1

Communications Revolution – Terry Storch
If you’re not there yet, it’s time to go to Web 2.0
Web 2.0 simply stated is The Participatory Web
(Enabling and Encouraging Participation, the relinquishment of communications control to viral methods and utilizing God’s people to deliver the message.)

Four C’s of Multicultural Marketing – Tracy Lewis
Cultural Awareness – eliminating fear, perception, criticism, preconceptions, doesn’t imply endorsement
Commitment – Long Term
Creativity – throw out the box
Christ-Centered – don’t sacrifice the message…but don’t limit the reach of it…

To accomplish this, you will need to have Multi-Cultural Awareness (Find Commonalities, Embrace Differences, Overcome the fear of honesty), Appropriate Application (Be Authentic, Know your Audience), and have a Strategy (Build conviction through scripture, Affirm diversity through identity and vision, Build a multi-cultural leadership and staff, Enjoy Progress and anticipate problems).

Writinng as an Act of Service – Jon Walker
Service Journalism answers two questions:
1. So What? (Why does this make any difference to me?)
2. What Now? (What should I do with this information?)

The goal is to leave the reader with a call to action.

Practical Outputs of Service Journalism:
- Timelines
- Headers and Subheaders
- Charts and Graphs
- Breakouts
- Q&A’s
- FAQ’s
- Captions

Branding 101 – Dawn Nichole Baldwin
Brand
the practice of delivering a promise that reflects the mission, uniqueness and personality of your organization…..

Positioning
Determining how you want to be defined by your audience.

A Matter of Message – Brad Abare
Matthew 5:13-16 – If you lose your saltiness what will you taste like>?
- Be Salty – Pursue God
- Be transparent – Pursue Your Own Story
- Think Local - Pursue Others
- Keep it Simple – Un-clutter the Message

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Runs in the family…

I plan on getting my hands on an ipod touch really zune.

Say see ya later to THE SOCIAL.
REMARKABLE INNOVATION is what keeps them coming back…