Author Archives: Matt Stauffer

Using Twitter As a Campus Minister

(Part 4 of a 5-part series: What I Learned From the Industry Experts on Using Facebook Well: An Interview with Michelle Widman of Brandglue) A few weeks ago Michelle Widman, the Project/Community Manager at Brandglue.com, agreed to sit for a phone interview with me. Brandglue is a social media firm that call themselves the “News Feed Optimization Agency”,…   Read more

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How to Optimize Your Use of the Facebook News Feed

(Part 3 of a 5-part series: What I Learned From the Industry Experts on Using Facebook Well: An Interview with Michelle Widman of Brandglue) A few weeks ago Michelle Widman, the Project/Community Manager at Brandglue.com, agreed to sit for a phone interview with me. Brandglue is a social media firm that call themselves the “News Feed Optimization Agency”,…   Read more

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The Basics of Using Facebook Well

(Part 2 of a 5-part series: What I Learned From the Industry Experts on Using Facebook Well: An Interview with Michelle Widman of Brandglue) A few weeks ago Michelle Widman, the Project/Community Manager at Brandglue.com, agreed to sit for a phone interview with me. Brandglue is a social media firm that call themselves the “News Feed Optimization Agency”,…   Read more

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Using Social Media to Reach Donors

(Part 1 of a 5-part series: What I Learned From the Industry Experts on Using Facebook Well: An Interview with Michelle Widman of Brandglue) A few weeks ago Michelle Widman, the Project/Community Manager at Brandglue.com, agreed to sit for a phone interview with me. Brandglue is a social media firm that call themselves the “News Feed…   Read more

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MyEdu–the tool you wish you had in college

Yet another discovery from Lifehacker that can be of great benefit of our students: MyEdu, an all-in-one tool to plan and track your entire school career. MyEdu is a free tool for college students that syncs with their school’s databases and helps them manage their schedule, grades, and books in one centralized location. I don’t…   Read more

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Free international calls

If you work on a college campus, there’s a great chance there are international students all around you. If you’ve gotten a chance to work with international students, you’ll find that there are a lot of resources we have that are of great benefit to them–among them, connections to American homes and American churches. Lifehacker…   Read more

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Adobe Software For Rent

We recently wrote about free and cheap alternatives to Photoshop, but what about the times when you just have to have Photoshop? Until now, your options were to borrow a friend’s computer, cough up $500 for Photoshop, or to just deal with it. Now, that has changed. Adobe’s entire Creative Suite is now available for rent…   Read more

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Call for requests: General Posts

Once again, we’re going to try this whole “Staffhacker readers get involved in the conversation” thing. So, it’s time for another “Call for Requests.” This time, we’re going to keep it simple. In fact, so simple that it’s actually just fulfilling the exact function as the “Suggest a Tip” button above: If you had one…   Read more

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Hosting your own web site: Drupal Gardens

Drupal is an exceedingly powerful content management system, more powerful than any we’ve mentioned thus far. However, it traditionally has also been exceedingly hard to learn when you first approach it. Thankfully, there’s finally a hosted Drupal install that takes most of the work out of installing and learning Drupal: Drupal Gardens. Let me be…   Read more

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