I’ve been feeling overwhelmed by my emails, lately.
My first step in dealing with my email overload is by keeping my email accounts divided. Before, I had all my email pouring into one inbox. It was a great idea at first, but as a few of the accounts began to receive more and more email, the one inbox strategy didn’t work anymore. It was time to divide and conquer!
Now some of my inbox’s are conquering me.
Here are 7 things I’m doing to deal with my email overload:
Last week, the Facebook Friday poll question was: Does your church use a ChCMS? If so, which one? If not, why? (see results)
This week we’re going to focus on Church IT.
Since two of the greatest obstacles facing Church IT is funding and volunteers, I would like to focus on that. Here’s what Tyndale’s survey on Church and Technology reviled as Church IT’s greatest obstacles:
Helping the homeless sounds simple, but it can get really complicated. Just ask BBH New York!
The same goes for installing software, building websites and setting up Sunday morning sound. It sounds simple, but it really isn’t. Otherwise, any ol’ church member would be doing it.
Now, watch as Tom Mabe feeds the homeless in a very unique way:
As I try to shake a migraine, today, seeing the picture of this knife slicing through the infographic feels a lot like my head, right now.
Thankfully, the awesomeness of ChurchMag will continue carry on, due to the great guest writing (like our newest contributor — such a ridiculously awesome post) and support of the ChurchMag Authors Network.
Enough whining on my part, let’s get to the infographic:
I have never bought a product or read a book that was guaranteed to not only last forever, but to remain dominant forever. Even my video iPod (5th Generation), which has certainly served valiantly for over five and a half years, was designed to be replaced by future technology.
Yet, like my iPod, the best technology is designed to last longer than its market/technological dominance.
Let me explain.
Last week, my wife asked me about one of my tweets.
This normally isn’t a big deal, since it’s certainly not the first time she’s asked me about one of my tweets. What made this situation unique, was the fact that I hadn’t actually penned the tweet myself.
I was happy to find it wasn’t SPAM. No one wants to “be that guy,” but I still wasn’t comfortable with tweets going out that were not actually mine.
Why did it happen?
I had given permission on my Twitter account to an online app a number of months ago. I promptly revoked the permission and went through and cleaned up my Twitter account permissions.
Now, what about Facebook, LinkedIn and others?
Here is a handy tool to help you determine what apps have permissions to access your private information:
Google is cleaning house.
Google has spread itself across many different avenues and have begun bringing everything closer together.
Just as we have seen a tighter integration with Google+ Plus and YouTube, another “module” of Google will be moving itself to Google+ Plus, but this one is shutting down.
There are a few things that I wish I can do in my Gmail account.
I use my email inbox a little like a to-do list and too many times, I read a message and then have to mark it as unread, because I need to take care of it at a later date. You can see how this type of system can get out of hand really quick.
There has also been times I’ve needed to follow up on an email sent, and I either rely on my memory or have to set a task in Wunderlist to remind me to follow up.
Finally, there’s been a number of times I’ve wanted to schedule an email for various reasons.
Now I can do all of this in Gmail!
Having worked as an IT Director, I know the frustration of having to go through former employee email looking for important info. Also, there may have been great ideas being batted about between colleagues that never saw the light of day.
GrexIt offers a solution to those issues. GrexIt allows emails to be searched almost like a knowledge base to use for a number of different reasons. You can add selected emails to GrexIt or even forward an email to a GrexIt account to have it stored.
This video describes the tool:
Technology does make life easier at Church.
From paper songbooks to overhead slides, physical Bibles to YouVersion, podcasting to videocasting, physical notes to springpad, desktop to cloud, the list can go on and on depending on your Church’s needs and willingness to adopt tools like these.
On the flip side, there are such things like over-dependence and incorrect usage that can mutate worship services into sound & light concerts, distract people away from a sermon, alienate sections of people etc.
So I’m kinda curious to know…
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