In the spirit of football season starting, it seems fitting to kick things off with this high school football fail. There's no audio here but you can imagine what the fans were shouting while this play fell apart. Flash player required to view this content. Please install flash player. Read Entire Post: Video of the Week: High School Football Fail [Link]

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Generally speaking, technical people are a somewhat unsocial lot. Most of us are introverts, and typically we’d prefer to work alone rather than be around a big bunch of people. That’s not to say we don’t love to talk with other people (most of us can go on for hours when we start “talkin’ tech…”), but being around a large group tends to drain us. I recognize that in my own life and try to intentionally find time to be alone to recharge. However, that doesn’t mean we don’t need community. I would go so far to say that we ... [Link]

Continuing on ideas for the "Perfect" SOHO Backup System.Previously:1. Local Backup2. 3-2-1 Rule3. Off-Site doesn't have to be instant4. Reporting 5. Backup Set Selection6. Cloud Resources7. Delete and Overwrite Protection8. Archiving9. Dedupe Today:9. Search AwarenessAt first, this may seem to have nothing to do with backup, so let me try to explain. We back files up because they're important (or we think they might be), right? And if they're important, that means we might want to look at them again someday, right? Well, to look at them again, we have to be able to find them, and over time, most ... [Link]

How do you manage your ministry? Do you ask people how they feel, take a deep look inside yourself and check in with your “intuition?” Well, this is a discussion that is gaining relevance in the day-to-day lives of pastors, ministry leaders, and volunteers all over the world. How do we measure the success of ministry? [...] [Link]

I had the chance to write an article for The Social Media Examiner a few weeks ago about employees who become social media celebrities while fulfilling their duties for the company. It got a lot of great discussion going. I also did a podcast talking more in depth about the five opportunities and five threats with employee celebrities. The podcast just went live yesterday... Read Entire Post: Social Media Is Creating Employee Celebrities: 5 Threats and Opportunities [Link]

Last week, Dave, Jason and I had a lively discussion of the relative pros and cons of the two most prominent types of loudspeaker systems on the market today; Line Arrays and Point Source speakers. A lot was up for grabs, and you’ll find out quite early that we all have some pretty strong opinions on the matter. It was a great discussion and I’m sure you’ll enjoy it. As always, you can listen to the audio here using the player below, download the file from the link or subscribe to the iTunes podcast feed. Thanks for listening! Right click ... [Link]

This weekend our church embarks on a very, very exciting ministry. Jesters is a drama group for teens and adults with special needs. The group starts meeting this Saturday, and will meet during September – February, with a break during December. This program is inclusive of all who wish to participate. Staffing will include a director, assistant director, and a music therapist. This program is modeled after a very successful one in Indiana. Here’s what our website says about Jesters: Do you have a heart for theater and for people with special needs? Then learn about JESTERS! HPUMC is developing ... [Link]

Continuing on ideas for the "Perfect" SOHO Backup System.Previously:1. Local Backup2. 3-2-1 Rule3. Off-Site doesn't have to be instant4. Reporting 5. Backup Set Selection6. Cloud Resources7. Delete and Overwrite Protection8. ArchivingToday:9. Dedupe?Dedupe probably means different things, and I want to address at least two of them.First, saving space on the backup media.This is probably the most common form of dedupe, and in it's simplest form, it means not backing up the same file twice. If the backup system can detect that the same file exists more than once, it only backs it up once and keeps pointers to the additional ... [Link]

This video from Countryman is slightly different than the E6 Fitting instructions I received with the last E6′s i bought. this is much simpler. [Link]

Wow – this could be a great help to a lot of people struggling with email overload! It looks like Google is just rolling this out and it’s not active on all accounts yet (including mine) but I can’t wait to see it in action. For a sneak peak, check out the video below or read more about it here. [Link]

After realizing recently that I'm hearing from more and more companies looking to hire a full time social media person, I want to help them get the best person possible. With that in mind I have five questions that I'll need answers to before I'm going to make introductions to my clients. The questions are... Read Entire Post: Social Media Marketing Jobs: I Can Connect You [Link]

In case you weren’t aware, the numbers of people who access the internet from their mobile phones is skyrocketing on a daily basis. Mobile phones users now total well over 3 billion, while 2 billion access the Web regularly. With nearly 7 billion people on earth, it’s pretty amazing that almost half have mobile phones and [...] [Link]

Today’s episode is brought to you by Clorox wipes and stupid human tricks. In addition, find out an easy way to download Youtube videos, Steve talks about the Southeast student ministries mascot and new series “Crash,” and FREE pool party background loops giveaway. [Link]

I was at a [people] networking event a few days ago, and there was the general expected sharing of business cards. One of the guys in the group, Donald, a web designer, also put out some small notepads. Now let me be clear, I don't know Donald [yet] other than to say hi, I don't know his work [yet],  but I sure like the line on his notepad:"You don't have to take notes to remember how to use a smallbuck website." That's exactly what I want to see in software, or in products or services of any type. "No training ... [Link]

Continuing on ideas for the "Perfect" SOHO Backup System.Previously:1. Local Backup2. 3-2-1 Rule3. Off-Site doesn't have to be instant4. Reporting 5. Backup Set Selection6. Cloud Resources7. Delete and Overwrite ProtectionToday:8. ArchivingI know Dell received a lot of flak recently for saying that 90% of data on a disk, once created, is never used again. OK, that was probably an overstatement, but it also probably has a lot of truth in it. The backup industry, and especially the dedupe companies, have made statements inferring that most (or at least "a lot") of the data we back up is the same old ... [Link]

Several mailing lists I'm on often have requests along the lines of "does anybody have a contact at XYZ company?" Usually these are job seekers trying to make an inside connection, but sometimes they're sales and business development people trying to do the same. Mark Warren is a job search coach I've had the pleasure of speaking with a number of times, and he has a method that is quite simple. He recently went public with it (posted below), so now I feel OK in sharing what he teaches.My summary: Build your own LinkedIn network. Keep on reaching out and ... [Link]

We’re covering a couple of new plug-ins called CE light wrap & Lens Care. Also, updates and things we learned at the Willow Creek Leadership Summit, Lift and Collide services make a time change, and FREE “Born Again” .psd give away. Born Again .PSD file. [Link]

I’m really excited to share with you (in case you missed it a few days ago) that ChurchLeaders.com has officially launched! I was contacted by the site’s editor about six months ago regarding the site including my blog posts. I was thrilled and am very grateful to be a part of this project. More than 200 [...] [Link]

This video is simultaneously one of the most fascinating and disturbing videos I have seen. If there ever was a fine balance of awe and gagging this may very well be it. I'll let you be the judge. Here's the pole acrobatics video by some of India's premier athletes/performers/???. Flash player required to view this content. Please install flash player. Read Entire Post: Video of the Week: Indian Pole Acrobatics [Link]