EasyWorship – Latest Update Now Available

Posted on April 28, 2009 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

EasyWorship is my presentation platform of choice for announcements, song lyrics, scripture, and sermon notes. Why? The name should give it away – EasyWorship.  The learning curve is very short for new volunteers and the package provides the functionality most churches need.  I’m sure we’ll have a later post comparing the major presentation software platforms, [...]

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Mt. Gilead’s Experience with Google Apps for Domains – Part II

Posted on April 27, 2009 - Filed Under Church IT | 10 Comments

It’s been a while, but this post is long overdue. In the prior post, I primarily discussed the basics of getting started and evaluating Google Apps for Domains. I realize that I actually left out some of the drawbacks of using Google Apps. The Church IT Roundtable group has discussed this in more detail. I [...]

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MinistryTECH/CITRT Wrapup

Posted on April 25, 2009 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 2 Comments

This has been a great week and a great time to reconnect with friends and make some new friends.  There was so much good information shared in the sessions and even more information shared in the in-between times.  That seems to be true of many conferences, the downtime is as valuable as the actual session.
Whether [...]

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MinistryTECH/CITRT Live Blogging – Session 1

Posted on April 24, 2009 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

I am going to attempt to live blog this event.
In room 1, our initial list of ideas that we all came up with: (We got through 3 of the first 4)
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Network Monitoring – Many solutions, hoping to find one that doesn’t require reprogramming, forensic monitoring software was suggested, called NetScout, following up with the [...]

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5 Cool Things To Try This Weekend At Your Church!

Posted on April 4, 2009 - Filed Under Twitter, ministrytech, video streaming | 9 Comments

1. Re-Think The Purpose In Your Projection Screens
In the middle of your next service, ask yourself this question: What is on the projection screens (or LCD’s) and why is it there?
Often habit becomes tradition, tradition becomes concrete and sometimes concrete just gets in the way. If you have live video there, is it necessary? If [...]

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