Brigada

Here’s a user that would like to improve the look of his emails to his prayer supporters and donors. He’d love to improve the graphics and the look with a hyperlink index, etc. Can you recommend a program that can help him with this that is not to difficult or costly? Also, what program and/or [...]

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Allan is a People Group Advocate looking for tips regarding software that might help him do a better job. The people group has experienced significant migration, with pockets of people now in scores of localities in about 30 states in Mexico and the US. He is looking for a more integrated way to keep track [...]

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Perhaps you’ve noticed the new way we’re converting email addresses for use in Brigada’s website. We first tried an online conversion program, but because several users feared that it was somehow going to keep track of the email addresses (and spam them), we switched to a new approach where we use a piece of software [...]

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Early in the life of assembling Brigada, we needed a way to handle all the little items and clips that come down the pike here. Clipmate came to the rescue — stripping out carriage returns, straightening out mixed case, removing leading or trailing spaces, etc. Now, years later, we still use it *daily* to assemble [...]

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I’m amazed at all the digital media our generation is producing. Yikes. If we don’t start teaching our peers to catalogue it, we’ll face the biggest maze of useless artwork in the history of the *world*. Learn to tag your photos by using a simple photo tagging program like iTag. Get it at: http://www.itagsoftware.com/

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It had been a while since I visited Joshua Project’s data downloads. I think last time, they had about 5 or 10 items. Yikes. Visit … http://www.joshuaproject.net/download.php You’ll be *shocked*. Now they have materials in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese and more. Get it in Access, Excel, Word, as a PDF, and more. Even get [...]

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Want to avoid spammers harvesting your email address on the web? Just feed your email address into the form at:http://www.converttojpg.com/(At present, you have to refresh the page sometimes to get the output to show up.) Once the chart produces the picture of your email address (which spam-harvesters would ignore, because it’s a graphic rather than [...]

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This is an ongoing challenge… how to deal with all these digital media we make today. Working with pictures can be so time-consuming — tagging, captioning, cleaning up the image, posting on a website, sharing the site with others, Yikes…. What are we thinking? :-) Sounds like we need some really good tools. Try… http://www.itagsoftware.com/ [...]

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If you run Windows XP, Windows 2000, or good ole NT, you can clock your network speed for free by picking up the QCheck tool athttp://www.ixiacom.com/products/display?skey=qcheckIt’s cool, it’s fun, and it’s efficient — and it installs no spyware on your system.

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Compu-Books of Glendale, AZ is offering their Church Missions 3.0 software free to Christian churches and Mission organizations. This solution tracks church mission projects with missionary information, contribution records, communication log and reports. They give you a free single-user version – a contribution receipt for the donation is requested in return ($99 value). It’s available [...]

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In this issue… SUPPORT RAISING CONFERENCE MORE ON DONOR MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE MOROCCO SUMMIT ’06 POST GRADUATE COURSE IN CHRISTIAN MANAGEMENT A NEW SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF RAISING SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL TURKEY NETWORK’S N. AM. CONFERENCE 2006 HEART FOR ASIA – VICTORIA, B.C. OPTIONS IN GHANA THANKS FOR SPURRING US ON TO GOOD WORKS THE BACKPAGE: [...]

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In this issue… GOOGLE FROM YOUR CELL PHONE OR PDA CHECK OUT YOUR PRIORITIES 24 MISSIONS LESSONS FOR CHILDREN CYBERMISSIONS TRAINING WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT HELP REPORT ON DONOR MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE BEST CAMCORDER ADVOCACY NEEDED? VOICE OVER IP STILL A GOOD DEAL DETERMINED TO EVANGELIZE TO STUDENTS THANKS TO OUR FAITHFUL DONORS… YOUR HELP MAKES BRIGADA GO [...]

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In this issue… MINISTER TO THE POOR WITHOUT CREATING DEPENDENCY UNDERSTAND THE WORLD OF ISLAM WATERS OF MERCY KONA, HAWAII CROSSROADS DTS BRIGADA READERS SLAM “CONNECTED” SITE, FORCE DISCONNECT GOOD RESPONSE ON SHIPPERS UK RADIO MISSION OFFERS UNIQUE TRAINING HOPE FOR AFRICA’S CHILDREN CONFERENCE WHAT DONOR MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE DO YOU USE? WHAT NON-ENGLISH CHURCH MANAGEMENT [...]

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