anablepo{blog} » e-mail http://blog.anablepomedia.com storytelling though communications, design, & family Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:30:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 sentenc.es http://blog.anablepomedia.com/2009/08/12/sentences/ http://blog.anablepomedia.com/2009/08/12/sentences/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:03:34 +0000 Robert http://blog.anablepomedia.com/?p=101

sentenc.es

I came across sentenc.es on a couple retweets on Twitter.

Simply put, It is a challenge to avoid extra words that we often put in messages and streamline it.

Between a text message and a status update on facebook or Twitter.

Think about the time saved by condensing it all down to four sentences just like this post.

]]> http://blog.anablepomedia.com/2009/08/12/sentences/feed/ 0 How to organize Photos http://blog.anablepomedia.com/2009/06/09/how-to-organize-photos/ http://blog.anablepomedia.com/2009/06/09/how-to-organize-photos/#comments Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:26:43 +0000 Robert http://blog.anablepomedia.com/?p=88 Photos are a huge blessing and curse. We have moved from a age of stacks of photos stuff in shoe boxes, to an age of photos scattered around our computer’s hard drive. I have done several slide shows and the main pain always comes down to 1) When was the photo taken? 2) Who is in the photo? 3) Where was the photo taken?

Some tips from my experience to help in organizing digital photos and scanned photos so that you don’t have multiple DSC0120, IMG5612, etc…

{STEPS}

  1. Create a NEW folder called YEAR. (i.e. “2009″)
  2. Create a NEW folder called TEMP within YEAR (i.e. “2009″ > “TEMP”
  3. Whenever you bring pictures off your camera, load them into your TEMP folder!
  4. Go through and delete bad, close to duplicates, etc…
  5. Using a program like Adobe Bridge, Google’s Picassa. Do a batch rename of all you files to the date created as YEARMONTHDATE (i.e. 20090609_001.jpg, 20090609_002.jpg or 20090609_robert heather in backyard.jpg, 20090609_grace abraham in the pool.jpg
  6. Tag each of your photos with keywords (i.e. name, place, etc…) Keywords can be whatever you want. The key is to use words that will help you in being able to do a search for photos later using the keywords assigned to each of the photos.
  7. Edit the photos as needed (i.e. crop, lighten, darken, etc…)
  8. Now you can move these photos to the “YEAR” folder or subfolder (i.e. “2009 > “01-03_Jan_Mar”, “2009 > “04-06_Apr_Jun”, or however you want to name you subfolders.)

The overall key is to first place the photos in a general TEMP folder so that you know these photos have not been looked through. They need to be renamed, tagged with keywords, edited, etc… Once they are in the overarching YEAR folder, you know that these are the photos you wanted to keep and importantly to find quickly and view the photos you were looking for.

Please comment if you have questions or other digital photo organization tips to share.

]]> http://blog.anablepomedia.com/2009/06/09/how-to-organize-photos/feed/ 0 BTW Easter Sunrise service in 9 hours! http://blog.anablepomedia.com/2009/04/12/btw-easter-sunrise-service-in-9-hours/ http://blog.anablepomedia.com/2009/04/12/btw-easter-sunrise-service-in-9-hours/#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:24:08 +0000 Robert http://s89672928.onlinehome.us/anablepo_blog/?p=1 Easter afternoon checking my e-mail and I have e-mails from five churches about their Easter sunrise gatherings that were sent 12-9 hours before the services. I got a feeling from each one of them that it was poor last minute planning as they did not include some of the most important details. Just Easter Sunrise Service at 6AM tomorrow. Is it at the church? Off-site somewhere else? Where is the directions incase I have only been there once? What can I expect?

Isn’t Easter an important enough of a day to celebrate and put some planning and forethought into? Especially with mail blast capabilities (like MailChimp) messages can be scheduled in advance for a timed release. That way no one has to be bothered with sending a last minute e-mail to the church’s e-mail system 12 hours before the sunrise service even begins because there is concern that people have forgotten when it is. Better yet, send multiple campiagns marketing the upcoming Easter Sunrise Gathering at 6AM including important information like directions, who to contact before the event with questions, a little blurb about what someone can expect the experience to be like.

May next year be planned a little more in advance to give people to invite friends, neighbors to these amazing Easter Sunrise services to experience Christ rising from the dead in a new way.

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