Tech for the Local Church
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BETA: Slides4Sermons – FREE Presentation Backgrounds. No Strings.
Oct 30th
Presentation Slides for FREE. No Ads. Not Kidding.
SLIDES4SERMONS offers a few images for FREE each month. These images are intended to be useful for the local church in their announcements, sermons, slideshows, bulletins, and web sites. We want to help the church volunteers around the globe SAVE TIME and raise the quality of their work. There are some simply amazing photos (like the one above) of California taken by my friend, Rob Macklin. It is worth dropping by just to get those! We are just getting started. We would love your feedback.
Screenr: Video Capture Your Screen and Instantly Tweet or Embed
Oct 21st
screenr is a screen capture program that runs right from a browser – no other software needed. It works as advertised and is a free service. If you need to demonstrate how to use a program, demonstrate a website or anything that happens on your computer screen, this is a great option!
You can drag a little Bookmarklet to your browser bar and click it anytime you want to record something on your screen. Nice. I can see using this to do simple tutorials for iTunes or WordPress.
You can instantly post your video / screencast to Twitter, YouTube, or anywhere you like … say, your blog post, for instance. Screenr Video I made after the break … More >
How To Upgrade Google Apps to the FREE Non-Profit Edition
Oct 14th
NO ADS, TOTAL PRIVACY, SHARED CONTACTS & MORE
Three good reasons why you should choose the non-profit edition over the standard FREE (with Ads) Google Apps version you may be using now. Instructions after the break… More >
MailChimp.com – FREE Email Newsletters for Your Church
Sep 22nd
The graphic says it all. If you have less than 1000 email addresses and you send less than 6000 emails each month – you just found your new email newsletter service. It is brilliant. We could say more, but the website really does a great job of explaining the service and new features. Visit. Sign up. You’re welcome.
BibleMesh
Jan 15th
I recently was invited to be a beta tester for BibleMesh.
BibleMesh is a tool developed by Redeemer City to City, an associated with Timothy Keller’s Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City.
BibleMesh is an online interface to teach and discuss the bible, the God of the bible, and God’s story revealed through the scripture. It starts each section out with a 10+ minute video explaining the over arching theme of at portion of scripture. The sections are…
- Creation
- The Patriarchs
- Moses
- Israel
- After the Exile
- Jesus
- The Church
Then you can dig deeper by exploring specific information about key events, characters, background, or theology. Once you have watched the video and explored the content, you can take a bible survey which is a little online quiz to help you retain (or learn) what you have just studied.
If that wasn’t enough they also have groups where it appears you could make your own study using the content. They have discussion forums for those who have questions about the bible.
Over all this is a nice and helpful tool that allows you to dig deeper into scripture. I have yet to see a price tag, but I hope they make it free, or at least a very minimal cost.
25 Day of Free Christmas Music
Dec 3rd
Amazon is giving away MP3s for Christmas in what they are calling 25 Days of Free
Also don’t forget about Worship House Media’s 12 Days of Christmas.
12 Days of Free Video Elements for Christmas!
Dec 1st
If you don’t know I am a huge fan of Worship House Media. Not only do they save me hours of time surfing for the best video for our worship gatherings by offering many different producers works, they give a lot way for FREE!
Your not going to want to miss 12 Days of Christmas.
On the 1st day of Christmas Worship House Media gave to me Fearfully Made
…and a partridge in a pair tree!
Worship House Kids Launches!
Oct 7th
It’s basically your one stop media shop for children’s ministry.
Free Web Hosting for Non-profits
Sep 9th
DreamHost is offering FREE web hosting for Non-profits. Yes Church, this means you!
Click here to see how you sign-up.
Fax for Free Online
May 26th
If you need to fax a file or document and you don’t have a fax machine. Check out faxZERO. It’s Free!
Free Website Giveaway!
Mar 14th
Is your church website ugly? Need a new one?
Tony Morgan and Collide Media are giving a free website overhaul (valued at $1499) to whom ever has the ugliest website and the most interesting story.
Click here and register to win!
CrazyChurch.com
Feb 19th
Want some free swag? Check out crazychurch.com
Three churches came together with two beliefs
- Church stuff out to be the best stuff.
- Churches ought to share that stuff.
My kind of people!
LinkLove
Feb 16th
Check out some great posts…
- Over at ChurchCrunch he did a great post on website layout called “Above the Fold“
- 9 reasons why youth ministry should host an online bible study.
- What is the role of the Pastor of Arts? [Video]
- You have nothing to prove, and no one to impress. [Video]
Share large files…
Feb 9th
Need to setup a shared folder online to store large files [videos, music, photos, etc.]?
Google Notebook to Evernote
Jan 29th
I know I’m late in the game, but Google announced that Google Notebook will go away in the future.
I suggest using Evernote as a solution. Evernote is very easy to capture things off of the web and then add your ideas. You can journal and much much more. Also Evernote has an Google Notebook import for those who don’t want to re-enter anything. Very cool! And it’s free. (They have premium edition that gives you more features and better experience, but the free account is fine for basic capturing functions)
Here how Evernote works…
I believe it is very important in ministry to get your ideas out of your head and on to paper or a electronic document of some sort. So develop some system and stick to it!
It’s Not Crap!
Dec 1st
Just a reminder that the free videos start today over at Worship House Media
Daily Freebie Promo – “You Can’t Say That” from Worship House Media on Vimeo.
FYI – Dale’s beard is sweet! It makes me feel like he’s Santa!
Chanukah Move Over
Nov 28th
Chanukah has 7 days of gifts, thanks to Worship House Media we get 20 days.
Starting Dec 1st Worship House Media is giving away a video each week day!
Daily Freebie Promo – “They’ll Never Know” from Worship House Media on Vimeo.
iDEANATION
Nov 26th
Need help on your creative planning for ministry? Or do you have great ministry idea that needs to be shared with the nation?
Check out: www.goideanation.org
I’m so pumped that someone finally made a web2.0 do to this! Kudos iDEANATION
Have a great thanksgiving!
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