Each of us has been captured by the call to turn lost students into Christ-centered laborers.
Whether it is creating a video to cast vision, building a website to equip students for ministry, or offering tech support to our field staff, each of us is making a unique contribution to help fulfill the Great Commission.
Aza Raskin is a designer who was most recently the Creative Lead for Firefox.
He recently wrote a blog post asking if you’re solving the wrong problem in which he tells the story of Paul MacCready’s quest to solve the problem of human flight.
It’s a short read and provocative in thought.
Our capacity is filled with work through this year. We will begin to look at new work in 2011 beginning January 10th. Please feel free to submit work that we can partner with you, and in January we will connect with you regarding next steps.
How do you start something with the LAB? That is a question I hear often. We now have a great way to start something with us. It is a questionnaire that asks the kind of questions that run through our minds as we seek to understand a design problem, and begin the creative journey of finding a solution. We added the questionnaire to our site here, and if you will observe in the upper right hand corner the menu shows a button called Let’s get started. This is the link to our questionnaire and is the perfect place to start something with us.
If you would allow us to partner with you on a project, strategy or some form of communication start with our questionnaire and lets get something started!
For our last meeting, until we reconvene in August, we tried a new day and a new time. After polling all our guild participants as to what would be a more favorable time to meet, it was clear that something in the middle of the week and in the early afternoon (EST) would work best. So we tried that. We met today, Wednesday, at 2p.
Today we covered
We closed out with tips. We looked at:
I missed posting notes from our meeting two weeks ago so I did not want to make a habit of that again this week. Our agenda this week included:
open (agenda, campus ministry stats motion video posted on our public and staff sites, report on Simple Bulldog’s film school in the east, Simple’s movie making this weekend in Austin, review of our summer assignments)
tutorial Greg showed us how to transform letters of a typeface we have chosen into a customized mark using Adobe Illustrator
design project Rachael updated us with the progress on the Summer Project bumper sticker project. Please sign up by this Friday to develop one or more designs (see wiki posting).
tips Dennis shared about 1password (a utility to store and automatically fill passwords , Sarah shared about her experience with Mail Chimp (an email marketing tool {think MPD}, David shared about shutting drives down from the Finder by not selecting the drive you want to close, but clicking on the eject icon next to the drive, which will keep the Finder open as opposed to closing Finder on eject if you have the drive your closing selected.
Our next and last meeting for this academic year will be May 26. We will take a break until August 18 where we will gear up for a new year. I have taken a survey about when a better time will be to meet and with that fresh data we will move our meetings to 2 pm EST Wednesday. We will block out 90 minutes for our meeting, however, we are not suggesting that all meetings will run 90 minutes. We will try that out for our last meeting on May 26th.
It is amazing that all this development went on without the CCC Mac community learning about it. This has been a wish and a dream, but most of us have not heard of any actual work being done on it. Well it has been announced that a tool is now in beta. See the announcement at the GCX web space.
For those of you working at our International Headquarters you have watched the building going on across from the entrance to our offices. Here is a video with a walk through and an explanation of the facilities.
Bill & Vonette Bright Global Training Center Walkthrough from Connect Ignite Transform on Vimeo.
To view in a larger screen click here.
Video put together by Ball State University
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