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Have you tried Yammer.com?   http:/www.yammer.com   Use it for free if all your users have the same ‘domain’ on the end of their email. For example, if your entire office has teamexpansion.org email addresses, ask them to log onto Yammer and you’re in business! Instant Intranet! Learn more at the site. No charge as [...]

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Two weeks ago, I had the good fortune to accompany a short-term mission team to Haiti. Prior to the trip, I attempted to collect some resources that would help facilitate a daily group processing time. My goal was to focus the debriefing time in four major areas:   a) brief worship and prayer   b) [...]

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One Brigada user recommends Virtual Filing Cabinet: http://www.carmelvision.com/vfc/wvfc.shtml It will support 200 concurrent users, all sharing files together. It lets them keep their emails, faxes, notes, meetings, appointments, document management, document collaboration with other Workgroup VFC users, on-demand PDF conversion, bulk email, document scanning, business card scanning, GPS enabled mapping, and import/export to outlook all [...]

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That’s what Next Step can help you do at their Multi-cultural Team Building Workshop, January 23-29, 2011, at the International Linguistics Center in Dallas, TX. It will only set you back $100… and the instruction you get will be deep and wide. Understand yourself better… and thereby understand your team better. Training Consultants from SIL [...]

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Beginning August, 2009, the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics (GIAL) in Dallas, Texas, will offer courses leading to a Graduate Certificate in Multicultural Teamwork. People working with other cultures and different organizations will learn how teams work across cultural boundaries, and how to handle the various cultural factors affecting their work together. The program includes [...]

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The 2009 COSIM Conference is June 15-17, 2009 at The Prince Center, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan. The theme is: “Sailing Together Through Changing Winds: Surviving and Thriving in Cross-Cultural Partnerships.” Participate in excellent plenary sessions and workshops that will deepen your understanding and equip you for healthy cross-cultural partnership. The conference is reasonably priced. [...]

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Looking for a secure, collaborative email solution for your organization, ministry, or team? Remember the missionaries that asked for recommendations (see the 2008/09/2 edition: http://www.brigada.org/2008/09/2-email-solution-needed.html They ended up choosing a solution called Email Center Pro http://www.emailcenterpro.com/ This solution is…*** Secure (https encryption)*** Allows collaboration among multiple user accounts*** Has a template system to help them [...]

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Here’s a mission team in a Muslim land with 6 local volunteers who are wanting to help answer 400 emails from seekers that are starting to rot in our inbox. After finding them, the team put together a pretty good plan for getting them access to computers/DSL/VPNs, etc. But now they need a secure way [...]

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I was just thinking today about the young man in northern Africa who first told me about Spot Messenger. He labors daily in a Muslim land, thankful for the chance to be at the front lines for the Lord. He had seen the effectiveness of this device and wanted to pass the word on to [...]

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Like many inhabitants of our planet (about 15% of the whole world), my wife and I watched as China threw a party to beat all parties at the Olympic Opening Ceremonies. I was amazed by all the wizardry, costumes, people hanging on wires, and the works. Granted, I would have loved a more telling commentary [...]

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In the Kingdom of God, there’s a place for everyone, but I suppose not all of us are comfortable in leadership positions. Lately I’ve been asking myself, how does one recognize leadership potential? This is coming up in my life this week because I have to oversee the process of appointing captains of the soccer [...]

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In this issue… NEWS SUMMARIES PUSHED TO YOUR INBOX NEED A RESOURCE TO TRAIN TEAMS GOING OUT FROM YOUR CHURCH? HOW TO FOLLOW UP YOUR SUMMER TRIPS MISSIONARY TRAINING CAMP PLACES AVAILABLE IN BI-LINGUAL DISCIPLESHIP SCHOOL CHECK OUT THE “HAPPINESS METER” FOR YOUR COUNTRY ORPHANAGE SEARCHING FOR CURRICULUM IS THERE A TENTMAKING GROUP FOR OIL [...]

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In this issue… THANKS FOR THE PARTNERSHIP VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR TALKING BIBLE SUNDAYS TRAINING IN CHRISTIAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GO TO THE NATIONS… AS AN ENGLISH TEACHER SYNERGY NEWSLETTER ALERT YOUR CHURCH: WYCLIFFE DINNER THEATRE IN CALIFORNIA LEARN CONVERSATIONAL ENGLISH CATCH THE ZWEMER INSTITUTE ON MUSLIMS LIES OF THE ENEMY: THE HERERO PEOPLE of NAMIBIA HIGH [...]

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