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What’s you thoughts can we truly have virtual community in the Church?

Nicholas Scott has just been added to the C2.o WorkForce.

Nic comes to us with a back ground in graphic and print design. His real job is “Mac IT Support for Corporate Advertising” for a national grocery store chain. He says his title sounds more impressive than it really is. Nic also have experience in prepress and production art environments. When time permits he picks up freelance design jobs. Nic is a mac user, heavy user of free-ware, for media editing, audio editing, image editing, and productivity.

Nic believes every church should be using technology to their advantage, and he is excited to give you some ideas about how to do just that.

Google has released a series of videos on their YouTube Privacy Channel. The videos do a good job describing how to use the various sharing features built into Google’s products – features you might not be aware of – like how to limit the sharing or sharing subfeatures of your Blogger blog or Picasa Web photos. The site also addresses more common issues of privacy regarding your interaction with Google.

If you’ve even been curious about what information is collected when you search on Google, you’ll want to check out the “Google Search Privacy: Plain and Simple“. Trying to help someone understand what all those “cookie” files are on their machine? See the Cookie Crumbles Finalists videos.

If you’re using any of these Google tools, many of which we’ve recommended before, is nice to know some of the tweaks for sharing information in limited circles (e.g., sharing the candid photos from the missions trip with only the folks on the trip) and it’s always a good idea to understand the privacy aspects associated with various services.

Image citation: Today Is A Good Day, “Not Something You See Everyday….” Today Is a Good Day’s Photostream. 7 Dec 2005. 20 Dec 2007 .

No, this is not a post about an amazingly effective new girdle. Wrong blog.

Rather, it’s a quick note about a tool called ZIPskinny that lets you pull up demographic information about a given zip code based on census data and even compare that to other communities around you. As the folks at churchrelevance.com point out, “it is a great resource for learning more about your church’s community.”

Any tool that helps a church learn a little bit more about their community and, in turn, be better able to get out and meet needs of that community is a good thing.

[via Mister Nifty via churchrelevance.com]

Ever wonder where a link goes before actually having to click on it. With the Firefox add-on by Snap you can preview the site before visiting it. It’s simple install the extension by going to SnapShot website and follow the installation directions. Then wallah!

As you hover over a web link, a preview pane appears [pictured above]. That’s it, another great little browser add-on.

Also available for IE v6 and 7 & Safari 2.0.1 and above.