Judy wants to encourage our women at Staff Training to take advantage of mentoring at CSU.  I explained our program in the previous post, but thought you might appreciate knowing who can help you  get started as a mentor or mentee.  I thought a picture of me would help if you see me on campus (minus the hardhat from a mine tour–ask me about it!)  I’d love to help you, so just introduce yourself and we’ll chat.

I’m Sus Schmitt, the webmaster of eQuipping for eMinistry.   I’m working with Judy to help you find and share easily-understood, transferable resources and best practices to assist you in your ministry through the use of technology.  (That mouthful is from my  mission statement.   I hope it helps you understand more what we hope to do through mentoring.)

Let us know if you’d like to be a mentor or mentee. I’ll connect you with someone asap. If you can’t phone or text, contact me at GlobalStaffWomen at gmail dot com​ or comment here.

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Does your laptop battery die out halfway through a meeting?  (I just spent over $100 to replace a laptop battery that was only good for twenty minutes!)

Today, I’ll share some tips to keep your camera, phone, and laptop batteries running longer and at “full capacity,” saving you money.  (To understand batteries better, you might want to read this entire post and the recommended reading at the end.)

The “low” indicator doesn’t mean low power.  It’s more of a “time left” indicator. You probably should avoid draining your battery ALL the way down EVERY time, just go to a low level.

If your charger doesn’t shut off when it’s done, charge your battery during the day so you don’t overcharge it.  Otherwise, leaving the battery on your charger overnight is okay.

If you know you’ll be taking a lot of pictures, or are really depending on your camera to make it through the whole event, or the whole day, be sure to charge your camera battery ahead of time, o...

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DPI is an abbreviation for “Dots per Inch”. DPI might also be called PPI (pixels per inch). Simply put, it’s a measurement of the number of dots in a square inch of an image. (You can find a more detailed explanation of DPI and PPI on Wikipedia.)

You will need to have at least 300 DPI in an image when you print it so that it comes out clearly. An image printed at less than 300 DPI will come out somewhat blurry. You cannot add more resolution to an image (unless you have the original physical photo and can scan it at a higher resolution). You can, however, resize an image to make it smaller with a higher DPI. Basically, what you are doing is restructuring the placement of the dots so that they are more densely situated in the smaller image version.

One confusing factor about images on monitors is they will only appear at a screen resolution (generally 72 DPI) even if you save them in a higher resolution. This is why it doesn’t make sense to put higher resolution images on a...

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Wow!  Ink cartridges sure are pricey!  And let’s face it, ministry does cost money when you look at the cost of hardware, software, internet service, etc.

I hope this post will help you particularly with your printing costs.

Printers

If you will be buying a printer, this calculator will help you discover the true cost of operating a printer depending on your ink usage.

Cartridges

I use brand name cartridges, but you can save a lot with off brands.  Visit this printer ink review site for help.  You will just need to determine if the quality of the printing is affected  by using a generic.  If so, is this change in quality important for the kind of printing you do?

Don’t believe that “low ink” warning.  I use a “fast draft” setting for most of my unimportant printing and continue printing for maybe three times longer than my indicator says.  I wait until the ink actually is used up.  Also, according to September’s Reader’s Digest, you can try shaking a cartridge when the printouts are streaky. I hav...

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In Part One of this series, I suggested you start sending Valentines to widowed donors.   I promised to write in this post about how I manage to send over 100 eCards and over 200 greeting cards per year, not including 300 Christmas cards. . . and in a non-stressful, manageable way.  It took me over a period of years to develop this habit, so please don’t be overwhelmed by this.  Just take some ideas that you think you could reasonably do this year and add another piece next year.  Or, you could decide to do everything, but with a smaller group of people, such as your top donors and family, adding  more people next year.

If you don’t have email addresses, birthdates and anniversary dates, you can at least send holiday cards four times a year: Valentines, Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.  Divide your donors into these four groups and then each one will have received a card each year.  I will post in the near future how I gather birthday and anniversary information so you can start sending birthda...

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