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Wanna Read More Books?

January 16, 2012 in Product Reviews, Reading with 10 Comments

Of course you do. Even non-readers usually wish they were better at reading.

One of the greatest things for my personal learning has been a website called Audible. It’s a bookstore of audiobooks. Now I realize that I may have lost you with that last word. Real “readers” don’t listen to audiobooks, right? Wrong.

I’ve already won over a few skeptics (read: they made fun of me when I first told them about this) that have since turned into diehard audiobook fans. We are quick to forget the power of learning by listening. In fact, I recently read about the significance of listening versus reading when it comes to the courtroom.

“Testimony is expected to be given orally, on the assumption that the spoken, not the written, word is a truer reflection of the state of mind of a witness. Indeed, in many courtrooms jurors are not permitted to take notes, nor are they given written copies of the judge’s explanation of the law. Jurors are expected to hear the truth, or its opposite, not to read it.” Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death

Put the Internet to Work

December 7, 2011 in Links, Product Reviews with 1 Comment

This week I stumbled across something that has literally changed the internet for me. It is a free site called “If This Then That” or (ifttt). Using a simple logic equation, you can setup just about anything to happen for you automatically.

Here are a few examples:

Are You Using Twitter or is Twitter Using You?

September 6, 2011 in Product Reviews with 1 Comment

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My journey with Twitter has been interesting for me to reflect on. Like so many others, I held out for awhile because I didn’t want to join the group of vain people talking about what they had for lunch (like the rest of the world cared). Eventually, I saw a handful of people that were using it effectively and I got on board.

There are quite a few different “rules” when it comes to how you are supposed to manage Twitter. I’ve written before about what your Twitter usage tells me about you, but the most common is the social user. I follow you so you follow me. The end goal of this strategy is literally to amass as many Twitter followers as possible. In doing this, you’ve allowed Twitter to use you. Odds are, the people who are now “following” you are using Twitter the same way you do. Which means that neither you nor your followers are actually reading anybody’s tweets. How could you? There are even programs that people subscribe to that get them more followers by finding people to follow. If I see someone subscribed to this I automatically remove them from my list.

This strategy has even caused certain people to clear their follower list and start over, even this guy who unfollowed 131,000 people!

How I Use My iPad for Public Speaking

July 21, 2011 in Preaching, Product Reviews, Software with 5 Comments

I use my iPad when I preach instead of paper notes and I often get asked what software I use.

I was using a program called iAnnotate PDF, but I’ve sinced moved to a program called PDF Expert. I like this one more because it is far more user friendly without sacrificing the features that I need it for.

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