Author Archives | Dean Soto
Dean Soto - who has written 82 posts on Productive Catholic.
Dean Soto is the founder and editor for Productive Catholic. He is also the president and owner of Pro Sulum, LLC, a web development and information technology consulting company based out of Southern California. He is a husband, father of 2, a Catholic that is faithful to the Magisterium, and an experienced aerospace information technology professional.
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Posted on 01 February 2010
Other than Open Source Catholic and Catholic Tech Tips, there aren’t many Catholic sites out there where you can learn new skills on the web. Of course, there are tons of sites where you can learn apologetics, philosophy, and theology, but anything else is pretty much non-existent. So being the shrewd servant that I am, [...]
Tags: Add new tag, Cascading Style Sheets, HTML, InstantShift, PHP, W3Schools, web, Web design, wordpress
Posted on 18 January 2010
Not too long ago, I was followed by Petros Media on my Twitter account. Unfortunately, somehow I got distracted and never got around to checking out their site. Boy was that a huge mistake. Petros TV is a fantastic site that brings together Catholic media projects and video into one easy place. [...]
Tags: art, catholic, entertainment, film, media, video
Posted on 14 January 2010
Every new year we come up with new things that we would like to change – and that is no surprise. It is also not surprising that most of the goals that we would like to complete fail within the first two weeks. There is a very simple reason for this: big life-changing goals are [...]
Tags: change, changing habits, goals, goals tracker, habits, Productivity, resolution, success
Posted on 08 January 2010
Hey everyone! I had an epiphany (no pun intended) this advent season that has literally changed my life, and also how I get things done throughout the day. I don’t want to spoil it for you, so you’ll need to check out the video, but it’s somewhat along the lines of the Getting [...]
Tags: mary, prayer, praying, Productivity, rosary, saints, Worship
Posted on 04 January 2010
The new year is always a great time to make changes in your life. Whether it is changing your blog design (ahem…), praying a daily rosary, or learning a new skill – there is something about the new year that makes these changes seem reachable. Well, rather than dreaming about what you want [...]
Tags: dreams, goals, goals tracking, resolution
Posted on 29 December 2009
If you are wondering where I am, I am enjoying a nice Christmas break! I promise that there will be more content soon, but with a new baby on the way and the chance to relax a bit, I just can’t help but take advantage of the time off. I wish you all a [...]
Posted on 15 December 2009
What is better, working on a lot of recurring tasks throughout the day that keep you busy for hours on end, or finishing a small task that makes a huge difference? Sounds like a stupid question, but I submit to you that most people choose to do the former every day. We tend [...]
Tags: 80/20, pareto's law, Productive, projects
Posted on 14 December 2009
As I mention in the video, I am not a guru of the technical side of Google Wave. However, I do believe that the concept of Google Wave itself is something that everyone needs to grasp. Why? Because it is truly going to revolutionize the way that we communicate on the internet.
Google [...]
Tags: Business, collaborate, collaboration, communication, google, google wave, wave
Posted on 10 December 2009
Well… something interesting happened last week that took me a while to process. If you have been following my blog for a while, you’d know that I had been trying to convince my pastor that he needed a new Church website. Well, for a while it looked like I was going to get [...]
Tags: catholic, church websites, parish, tithe, tithing, web, websites
Posted on 07 December 2009
So, as I mention in the video, one of my most popular posts to date is on how to get the entire Catholic liturgical calendar into your Gmail account. Well, leveraging off of that same concept, I thought that it would be cool to try and do something similar with the Liturgy of the Hours. [...]
Tags: email, hours, inbox, Liturgical, liturgy, liturgy of the hours