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Helpers

Busy busy busy busy. That's my life and it amuses me. I chuckle quite frequently at the different things that I enjoy being involved with (some more enjoyable than others, of course). And I still have time to veg (almost theraputically) in front of the TV when I get home.

Anyway, I just thought I'd share some of the tools that I like to use in this little juggling act of a life I lead.

For project management I use Basecamp. I've evangelized this tool to several committees, cohorts, and gaggles I'm involved with and it's proven very successful. Seth uses it to keep his animators motivated and on track, the Building Committee uses it to track milestones, ideas, progress and keep the elders and staff in the loop, and I use it to move VISCOM (visual communications ministry) tasks along for Village's short-term teams (first India, now Lebanon).

I'm a list maker and I use the backs of 5"x7" Spellbound promotion cards (which we received by the thousands via hilarious snafu) to keep those synapses in my brain a-firing. I'm a creature of double-redudancy, so I also use Ta-Da lists to track mid-term items and personal goals. I haven't utilized Ta-Da's full functionality, which enables you to share and collaborate to-do lists.

I'm 27 out of 51 on the list at the library to check out David Allen's Getting things done: the art of stress-free productivity; maybe after I read it, I'll understand the hype and the enthusiasm inspired by the GTD (Getting Things Done) phenomenon which has produced far more extensive and useful ideas than I have shared in this little post. 43 Folders is a good place to start. Also 37signals (the makers of Basecamp and Ta-Da Lists) is coming out with a new GTD-friendly tool next week called Backpack that promises to be high on the super-fun, super-cool, super-useful meter.