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Posted on January 15, 2012, 4:33 pm
Topics: How-To
Do you use craigslist, eBay or other similar sites to buy or sell things? Or perhaps to find employees or services? Have you used it on behalf of your church? Craigslist can be a useful tool for your church -- a way to save money and find good people.
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Posted on January 2, 2012, 4:20 pm | 1 comment
Topics: How-To
Happy new year! Top 10 lists are all over the place right now. I figured, why not join in? Below is a list of the articles or blogs that I consider some of our “Church and Web” top entries. What do you think are important topics we have or should discuss?
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Posted on November 15, 2011, 12:25 am
What do you know about video? Well, if you’re Andrew Nutma, quite a bit. Andrew posted an entry in the forum called “Video Record 101.” You’ll learn about the low cost solution he found for video recording his church’s services. Has your church started video recording?
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Posted on October 16, 2011, 11:08 pm | 4 comments
Topics: How-To
Does your church use a wireless network? Many do, and it’s a useful tool. But, like pretty much any technology, wi-fi can be used for good or bad so it’s a good idea to protect your church as much as possible.
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Posted on October 9, 2011, 7:51 pm
Topics: How-To
A highly recommended online worship planning program. Worship Planning Online has a place to plan services, keep libraries of music (mp3 files, songs, chord charts, ties in with CCLI and iTunes) and Power Points, schedule everyone participating in the services and communicate with everyone involved. The program includes email communications to let each person know their schedule, and individual logins for all concerned. You can even chat live during a service.
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Posted on August 15, 2011, 11:07 am
Topics: Communication, How-To
More and more committees, businesses, and organizations are going paperless. This is great for many reasons such as: using less resources (paper, postage, and staff), great portability, and faster distribution. Here are a few tips to keep in mind as your church disseminates information via email, their website or any other electronic means.
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Posted on May 31, 2011, 10:51 am | 2 comments
Topics: How-To
Backup - Bewitched because I know it’s necessary. Bothered because it can be a bother to set up and maintain. Bewildered because there are so many choices! How do I know which method, software, server...whatever...to use?
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Posted on May 2, 2011, 9:02 pm | 2 comments
Topics: Communication, How-To
Do you remember phone trees? Perhaps your church used a phone tree to let the members know when there was a prayer request. Now technology gives us tools for a much more reliable, efficient way to communicate our concerns and joys with our church family.
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Posted on April 18, 2011, 11:16 pm
Topics: Church Websites, How-To
What would you save if your house was on fire? Many people answer, “My family photos.” Family photos are precious. Our church is a family, too, and it is good to figure out the best way to store our church family photos.
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Posted on April 12, 2011, 1:08 am | 1 comment
Did you know that our denomination provides grants for smaller churches to use to purchase new technology? The grants are provided by the Sustaining Congregational Excellence (SCE) program, which “is predominantly for smaller congregations in the Christian Reformed Church in North America.
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Posted on March 22, 2011, 9:47 am | 3 comments
Questions about how to record or stream worship services have come up several times in our Church and Web network. Many churches make audio recordings of their services. Cassette tapes were a common media for this for quite a few years, but now that technology is pretty much obsolete. Churches now...
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Posted on March 18, 2011, 12:43 am
Free software for working with sound recordings.
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Posted on March 18, 2011, 12:30 am
Article from "Technologies For Worship Magazine" on how to set up to make audio recordings of your worship services.
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Posted on February 7, 2011, 6:40 pm | 2 comments
While it is easy to debate the importance of some social media sites like Linkedin, Myspace, and Last.FM for connecting with your community, I believe it's almost impossible to argue that Facebook is an important platform to use in communicating and connecting. Church Marketing Sucks explains how and why to connect with your church through status updates on Facebook.
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Posted on January 31, 2011, 7:14 pm | 2 comments
If you have any doubts that technology is helping people and communities in ways that haven't been done before, check out this story. A preacher cancelled the Sunday worship service because of inclement weather. However this didn't stop him from having a service since he streamed the service from his house onto the church's website via Ustream.
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