As a staff spend some time sharing best practices and/or learn a new tool together...

While our teens probably don't check email on a regular basis, my guess is most of us use email as a primary means of communication...but how often do we hear, I didn't get that email, or you try to send an email to a large group and half of them bounce or are labeled spam - or your email server is shut down! OR people complain that they recieve the same email from you multiple times because they have teens in multiple groups. This is where service like Mail chimp, Constant Contact, iContact, Flosk note and others can be helpeful.

Speaking of communicating with teens - and more and more their parents...texting seems to be the primary means of communication for more and more people...but you may or may not have unlimited data - or some phones make it cumbersome to create groups - or you just want to make sure you are on the up and up as far as Safeguarding as well as

Remind 101 - they subscribe to you; great for reminders, doesn't use your cell phone number

Cloud
In collaboration with other Youth Ministers - mission trip
With staff on joint projects - get rid of the email chains!!! Especially with presentations and larger files
Create a folder so everyone can share pictures after events
Have access to information even when you are away from your computer or office

Cloud services: my personal favorite is Dropbox, but there is also Google Drive, icloud, Office 365 as well as specific sites like