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.
new page
- October 25, 2010
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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!
May 26 LAB Network Meeting
- May 26, 2010
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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
- the fact that this would be our last meeting until August
- the new meeting day and time
- today’s agenda (interview, tutorial, and tips)
- we prayed (asking God to attend to Rachael Abbott’s needs and her family’s needs as they say their good bye to her grandmother)
- We then introduced Rafal Zielinski who has worked with us this year as a part of our Year One internship. We heard a little bit about of Rafal’s history up to the point in which he resides today, which a newly accepted staff member of our ministry. In the midst of his story is a unique quest he is in the midst of fulfilling which is a design a day. You can read more about that at his design blog.
- Greg and Sara showed us how we can share a color palate from one CS program to another. Greg gave a RGB example and Sarah demonstrated a pantone exchange.
We closed out with tips. We looked at:
- Tungle.me
- mpdgarden.com
- gist.com
- Default Folder (a Mac application with nifty shortcuts to typical Finder tasks)
- macupdate.com
theLAB Network online meeting notes
- May 13, 2010
- Posted by Dennis
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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.
TNT for the Mac?
- May 11, 2010
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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.
Vision 360
- May 10, 2010
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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.
Datamerge in InDesign
- April 22, 2010
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To view in a larger screen click here.
Put Your Spokesperson Hat On
- July 2, 2009
- Posted by Dennis
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Happy July to all. Please put in your schedule to work on your task of being a spokesperson for our mission and your ministry. Affirm your partners and give them vision for the work ahead. Make sure you post your prayer letters as a pdf in your Google Docs and then share that document with the entire team. If for some reason you are not able to get a letter done this week, let us all know when you will, if you need help say so, and if there are specific ways we can join you in prayer let us know that as well. Personally I am going to have to really hustle to make tomorrows deadline. I will pray for you and I hope you will pray for me.
Don’t forget!
I failed to mention in our last meeting that in two weeks our update letters are to be ready and out the door by May 8. That means that this week you will want to gather your ideas as to what to share with your team partners to help them experience the journey of our mission. So be on your toes.
Also we have talked about spending a day with the Lord. A few have done this already and I am pleased. It is a great encouragement to me, and I am looking to follow them. Perhaps you are like me and your schedule is quite full for April. Due to previously scheduled commitments, and little time to adjust I won’t be able to take a whole day in April, but I will almost get two half days. If you are like me, do it, and if you can still get a day in do that. I believe God would be so pleased that you would show up for a day with Him. Also, plan your day in May while there is time to clear a whole day.
Remember the Worldwide Day of Prayer tomorrow.
I look forward to serving with you this week. Peace.
Team To Do’s
- April 17, 2009
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Thank you for a good team meeting. I appreciate your engagement. A special thanks to all that presented something. Here are few take aways from our meeting:
- Pray for Anna and Tina as they travel (Anna in Texas, Tina in Fort Lauderdale mission conference), Ian and Sarah Burns as they find their team, and Dan as he connects with his team.
- Send your personal ministry update to the Burns’ (theburnsatthelab@gmail.com)
- Select your day with the Lord for April and May and put it in our LAB calendar
- Be thinking about your next letter to your team due the first week of May (two weeks away)