The Idea Camp

The Idea Camp- the hybrid, free unconference.  My friend and bossman posted the other day about how excited he was about The Idea Camp.  You can read his thoughts here… I am very excited about this as well.  It’s such a unique environment and I think the organizer, Charles Lee, has done a great job of capturing the minds of some brilliant people and organizing this thing with some major potential in mind.  I was trying to explain to my wife last night what kind of conference this was, and it was hard even to describe.  I may have confused myself (which is easy to do .  It really is an organized conversation of sorts.  A collection of passionate, creative, thinking people gathering to discuss important ideas and concepts that can impact culture and make an impact on people who need the Truth of Christ.  To be honest, I feel a little out of my league, and am going to try to keep my mouth shut unless I really have something important to say!  I’m excited that they are not printing out schedules (other than ones in strategic locations posted on the wall), but rather posting them online.  I think this is a brilliant stategy!  It’s GREEN and it’s pretty innovative!  They are also using the NING platform to help facilitate a sense of community and connections.  I’m very interested in exploring using something like this at The Orchard as well.

Thanks to Charles for organizing this, looking forward to hearing Erwin McManus and Eric Bryant, Keith & Dawn Nicole Baldwin (who are a part of The Orchard community- I can’t believe the amazing diversity and talent of the people at The Orchard!), and of course, Scott Hodge.  Looking forward to meeting a ton of others and seeing what God does with this thing.  I’ll give a full report next week on what went down.  Wish you all could be there!

By the way, last night I read that there is going to be some live streaming of some of the main sessions.  Block out some time the next couple of days and check this out!  You can check in live from anywhere with a (decent) internet connection here. Gotta get ready to fly to SoCal- see you later!

 

Test of the emergency blogging system

Hey all

I’m trying to find a tool that will allow me to organize my blog posts, save drafts, and post new blogs to my Blogger account, all within this software. Macjournal does this but I’m not too stoked about it’s interface/features, Journler seems like the perfect thing but it won’t post to Blogger, etc.

This is a test from Ecto. Does anyone have any other ideas of mac software to use for blogging to Blogger? Here are the things I’d like to be able to do…

• see a list of all of my blog posts
• be able to write a new blog and quickly and easily post it
• add pics or html code (like for YouTube) easily
• look cool

What do you use? What should I use? Will this even work??

 

I’m having an affair…

Okay, I have to admit it.  Those that know me know that I’m a mac user/tech geek.

Here are two new tools that I have found, have began using, and have fallen in love with…

1. Omnifocus- this tool is basically an organizer/project manager/task manager/sweet delight.  It’s designed for the GTD (getting things done) system, and I’ve been on it about two weeks (maybe three).  I’m learning to put all of my stuff in here and track projects/to-do’s, etc.  It simply works great.  It’ll take me awhile to fully utilize it but I really like it so far.  I started while it was in beta and got a good deal on it.  Check it out here.
2. Jott.  I don’t know where I ran across this but it’s a free (at least for now) tool where you register an account, enter your cell phone/e-mail contact info, and you can call a number and leave a note (say you’re on the way home and remember that you need to do something the next day but like me, have a horrible memory).  You leave whatever reminder/to-do/message you’d like and Jott transcribes it into text and shoots you an e-mail and/or a text message.

I’m in love!  How about you?  What cool tools do you use for productivity each day?