Using Google to spread The Message

September 17, 2008 in church, Church IT, free, google, Technology with Comments Off

As is pretty obvious by this blog I love God and technology and love finding new ways that technology can help share God with people.  Following the Google blog and some of the cool things they have coming out always seems to be cutting edge.  Today I noticed the Google Audio Indexing which from their own description is:

a tool that transcribes and indexes the spoken content on YouTube’s Politicians channels

Now I know currently it’s only for the political videos but I hope that at some time this will be available for any videos that you choose to have it index.  Think about having your weekly sermons uploaded to Google video, transcribed and indexed.  This can become an amazing teaching tool.

Combine this with the fact that Google Video is becoming part of Google Apps Premier Edition as well as Google Apps Education Edition which is free for non-profits with a 501c3 and this will be another huge score for churches and other non-profits to get more of their content searchable and useable on the web.

Francis Chan Crazy Love DVD Study

September 16, 2008 in church, Personal, Technology with Comments Off

Was excited to see while looking around the other day that there will be a DVD study that will go along with Francis Chan’s book Crazy Love.  This is one of my favorite books and can’t wait to lead our small group through this study!

Free Non-profit Email Marketing

September 9, 2008 in church, Church IT, citrt, free, Technology with 2 Comments

As is with most things recently the best way to find out about great offers and promotions for churches is through the CITRT IRC chatroom.  The latest was as I was searching for a Email marketing program such as Constant Contact, iContact, or similar.  As I found who others we’re using, Vertical Response was mentioned, and then that was followed up with the fact that they are free for non-profits.  This is almost completely true, they give 10,000 free emails a month to non-profits, and then 15% discount on everything else. I’ve sent about 2,500 emails with them since Friday with no problems, they are easy to use, have open, bounce, and click-through tracking.  I love free things and think you will too, try Vertical Response .

Imagine

September 4, 2008 in church, Personal with Comments Off

cover5 copy The last few weeks have been crazy with our church’s spiritual campaign called Imagine getting ready to kick-off.  It’s going to be an awesome 9 weeks as we look at what it’s like to have a fully devoted life. One of our intro videos tells it best.

This weekend it all starts, if you’re anywhere near the Bradenton/Sarasota, Florida area you’ll want to check this out and get involved.  As part of Imagine, we’ll learn what could happen if we share our Testimony of what God’s done in our lives, gave God the Time he deserves, used our Talents to glorify Him, and invested our Treasures to share His love. Some teasers of things to come during Imagine, HUGE tailgate party, an American Idol singer, and….an amazing night with Shane and Shane in concert!

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