Websites are not democracies

Anyone who has ever managed a church website knows one thing for sure:
Be careful what you put up since it is often up to you and no one else. Or put another way, no matter how many times you ask, it will often be up to you to make up content for each ministry [...]

The perils of eBay

Last week, I went onto eBay and bid for a set of aluminum milk bottles for the upcoming church carnival. While I held the lead until late Sunday (yesterday) night, I did not win. Someone came in at the last minute and outbid me. Bummer right? Yes, but I knew this [...]

[Updated] Sermoncast Volunteers

This past weekend I asked my youth group to think about volunteering to manage and upload any sermoncasts that we create. Usually, the youth group is about many things within the church and are often at the forefront of technology related requests. However, I wanted to give them an opportunity to do something [...]

Who is God? – Slideshow

Who is God
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Pentecost Slideshow

Pentecost
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Trinity Sunday

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Podcasting and Church, aka Sermoncasting

I have a friend at church that has asked me repeatedly about the possibility of either a podcasting or live streaming our church sermons.  Actually, Fr. Bob’s sermons.   Anyway, I told him that from all the reading I have done on the web and folks at work, it seems possible and faily straight forward.  What [...]

[Updated] And now, a break in our programming

My wife and I have been foster parents for the last few years. We have had foster children that lived with us for a time and now are reunited with their birth family. However, the current set of children (one of each) were sent to us with express intent of adoption. We [...]

[Update] iTunes 8.1

I just updated to iTunes 8.1. Much better. Often, new software is slower and often breaks something else you used in the previous version. I should know, in my day job, I design software. However, my iPhone sync just took a fraction of the time I had become accustomed to waiting. [...]

Newsletter Software

In order to see if I can get somewhere in my quest to have our church monthly magazine in an electronic format, I have decided to review software which (purports) to do just that. While I am optimistic that I can find something, the real trick is to find something that can be used by [...]