• Volunteers Have Higher Priority

• Recruiting Volunteers

• Targeting the Right Volunteers

• Interviewing Volunteers

• Integrating New Volunteers

There’s some great stuff in all these but I’ll start with Volunteers have higher priority in my to-do list for the remainder of this week. James makes some great points that I know I some time take for granted in the fact that while this is our job, this is normally above our volunteers jobs and is them giving of their free/self/family/sleep/etc-time that they can just as easily being doing something else with. My main group of volunteers that are here each and every week actually thank me for allowing them to help and minister to the church, WOW that’s awesome! I want to work towards allowing all of my volunteers to be able to realize this amazing part and feeling serving. One of my goals is make my volunteers my highest priority when they are serving because without them my days would be much longer, but even more importantly I want them to realize the joy of sevice. That means above other staff, lunch, projects, etc if they need me I’m here to serve them to allow them to better serve our Lord.

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• Google Earth
• Picassa
• Google Screensaver, Desktop, Talk, and Toolbar
• Firefox
• Norton AV 05
• Ad-aware SE Personal
• Adober Reader 7
• Gallery Player
• Real Player
• Trillian
• and keep everything up-to-date with Google Updater

Again we should all be afraid Google will take over the world, but at least they’re giving us free stuff

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iBW is a site dedicated to giving you the opportunity to win FREE business related prizes. Each day (Monday – Friday) brings a new contest with new prizes for you to win. All prizes are business related whether it’s the latest set of business books, nifty office supplies or advice from a business book author.

Their give aways usually lean towards leadership that can easily be applied to our dealings with the church. So give it a try, it’s free! Plus it really does come in bubble wrap, again they say it the best:

Did we mention that everything is sent in Bubble Wrap? What could be better than free prizes and an afternoon of bubble popping entertainment? Just a note, when in an office cube, try to save all bubble popping until after office hours. Or wait until your coworker falls asleep on his desk as it would make for a good wake-up call (please, for the sake of your career, do not try this with your boss in hearing range).

For those of you playing along at home I won Persuasion: The Art of Getting What You Want, I guess next I’ll be doing a book review.

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• Let your yes be yes from Mark Batterson who quotes his coffehouse manager who said, “I don’t want to say yes just because it’s hard to say no.”
• Then there was Our default answer is yes over on The Appian Way blog where Clif guy states “Our job is to find a way to say ‘yes’.” “No” is easy.”
• Clif then references Dave Ferguson on his blog and his Want Innovation? Lead with a “Yes!” post where he says we need to “Develop a ‘yes’ reflex” and then goes on to say “‘Yes’ gives you time to figure it out.”
• In another post Dave references Katherine Hudson, the President and CEO of W.H. Brady Co. who is quoted saying, “When someone offers you a challenge, don’t think of all the reasons why you can’t do it. Instead, say, “Yes!” Then figure out how you’ll get it done.”

Well, after all that I don’t really have anything profound to say but my thoughts are that I’m still going to answer “Yes”, “No”, and more than likely I’ll even throw in a “Maybe” now and then.

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Are you having difficulty finding the time to manage it all?

• Installation and Implementation
• Help Desk Administration
• Asset Control and Management
• Remote Control

While I’ve only installed and implemented on a few machines our entire network and I’ve found it easily and quickly completed. The Help Desk interface is easily customized with drop downs and even allows the addition of your church/company logo. Cool thing with the helpdesk is the easily included screenshot that is supplied with the ticket, the interface that attaches the user and their computer automaticcaly to the service request. The part that caught my attention was the asset control/management which worked like a charm. After installing on the computers I went back as admin and ran some of the predefined reports. These can export out as excel, rtf, and pdf that I can remember and included the computer type, OS info, software loaded, memory, how connected to the system, etc, POWERFUL! You can also set it up to on a scheduled basis poll your network so you can any software/hardware updates. And on top of that it easily sets-up Remote Control access for those computers that you have loaded. All this and I only looked at very briefly, looking forward to digging deeper. Oh yeah, did I mention all this is FREE!

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