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Perhaps Twitter will not revolutionize how we communicate after all.  From a Harvard study…
On a typical online social network, he said, the top 10% of users accounted for 30% of all production.
“This implies that Twitter’s resembles more of a one-way, one-to-many publishing service more than a two-way, peer-to-peer communication network,” the team wrote in a [...]

Read this today and thought it was full of good recommendations.  Check it out.
Lifehacker – Lifehacker Pack 2009: Our List of Essential Free Windows Downloads
I use many of them including Mozy, Itunes, Foxit, Firefox, Revo, Picassa, VLC, Spybot, and Dropbox.

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I gotta be honest…I am still not convinced about Twitter, but this article gave me a little bit more of a glimpse as to what it may mean.  Here is one part of it…
Put those three elements together — social networks, live searching and link-sharing — and you have a cocktail that poses [...]

Texting is in and I think, in some variety, is here to stay.  From Textually.org…
Nationally, more than 75 billion text messages are sent a month, and the most avid texters are 13 to 17, say researchers. Teens with cellphones average 2,272 text messages a month, compared with 203 calls, according to the Nielsen Co.  (Source)
I [...]

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In spite of the fact that a few people are giving it up an opportunity to idendify with the suffering of Jesus during Lent, Facebook is taking the computing world by storm.
If you are like I was a few months ago, you may we wondering how you can use it to your ministries [...]

My computing world has been thrown a few curve balls the past few months.  First, I lost IwantSandy.com.  I am still smarting from that one.  Last week I learned I am losing a second tool I love, The Google Notebook.
The Google notebook is not going away, Google is simply going to stop developing it so, [...]

Is your church looking to start using or change church management software?  If so, you need to check out this chart.

It is from Christian Computing Magazine and allows you to compare features side by side.
Also, if you have one you really love or our disappointed with, please leave a comment.  We use Servant Keeper for [...]

A while back I made mention of how bummed I was at losing Sandy, my virtual email assistant.  I have been on the search for a replacement and think I have settled on one for the short term, ReQall.
ReQall has as its mantra, “the best way to remember what is important to you.” It [...]

I was in a funk all of yesterday when I learned this news.  Sandy, the email reminder service I use daily, is closing its door.
If you click on over to the closing our door announcment, you can see a number of people are disaponted.  Count me as one of those.
I will be on the lookout [...]

In the past I have shared about a few tools I use to make my computing life easier and faster – Gmail (though I no longer use POP access) and the Foxit Reader.  One thing I have been doing for quite some time is taking advantage of a tool in Gmail that makes large files [...]