Today a youth pastor from the USA asked me for some advice on training youth workers in Mexico. He’s going there on a mission trip and is looking for resources. I have lots of resources, of course, that will help the youth workers there. One of them is a large book in PDF format that one of my friends (the author) gave me. I have permission to share it, so I tried to email it. It was too large. So what did I do?
I went to twitter and asked for advice on how to send large files. Here are the responses I got.
- Valdez: Used Pando a few weeks ago. 1GB max, but easy to use. http://www.pando.com/
- McLanea: I upload to a web server and give the recipient the link.
- SimplyInsider: check out yousendit.com. you can send up to 100 MB free or pay to send up to 2 GB. we use it and it is super helpful…
- Justinross: This site has worked well for me- http://www.mediafire.com/
That’s why I love twitter! In a matter of minutes, I got the answer to my question. I eventually used yousendit.com. It was easy and fast. I’m sure all of the suggestions are useful.
What do you use for sending large files?
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Brent Carl writes a great article about having “no regrets” in ministry. He talks about his struggles and how God has provided for his family as he lives a life of sacrifice. It serves as a great reminder for us all. Here’s an excerpt:
It was as if a light went on in my spirit as God brought situation after situation to my mind of how he has been guiding my life to this point, and in the process every decision that I have made in accordance with His leading has also affected my wife and kids. I mean I knew that that is the way it works, but as I sat there listening to the song I was really blasted with the fact that every decision I make impacts others…especially my family.
I must be honest, that kind of reality scares me to death, because that adds a ton of pressure…I mean its one thing to follow God’s lead for your life, but when there are three other lives included in the decision, it changes things for sure.
My hope and prayer is that my kids, just like Mark Stuart of Audio Adrenaline can look back 20 years and say…”I was the son of a preacher, and he was a rich poor man.” And that my wife can say the same kinds of things about her husband, because the truth is, that this path of ministry that we’re on is never going to bring the things that this world points to as success and symbols that you’ve arrived.
Check out the rest of it at his blog 97…3…the Stat.
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Patti Gibbons tweeted about this last week, and I love the concept. It’s an easy way to make mindmaps of stuff (which are great for remembering and outlining things).
Text2Mindmap is a web-based mindmap creation tool that allows you to input your text and it automatically creates a mindmap for you. Then you can download the mindmap as a jpeg to view offline. It’s quick, easy, painless, and useful.
(Image by: Lifehacker)
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If you like to make slideshows for your events, but you’re bored with the same old look, you should definitely check out animoto.
Using your video and music, they put together the slideshow for you and allow you to embed it into your blog or website. The videos are great and give you professional effects and transitions with no need to know anything about video editing.
Right now, the free version allows you to make a 30 second video, but for $3 you can make a full-length video which includes the ability to download it to your computer. For $30 a year, you can make as many full-length videos as you want.
Check out a video from animoto here.
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