Tech Support Care Package

We love our parents.  You may have given them a laptop from your Black Friday bravery.  But the giving doesn't end there, as you'll be required to help answer some questions.  How to make it easier on you to help give some Tech Support?

http://www.teachparentstech.org/

Or you can get at attitude like the following geek wear.

Weebly for clean and elegant Church websites

Hello all, here's another suggestion from me to you.  Use http://www.weebly.com/ to make a free website and a free blog, hosting most the files you'll ever need to use, with powerful tools for making the page inviting.



I wanted a few things in my transition from CTS Memberconnect.

• Easy to use:  drag and drop what-you-see-is-what-you-get interface.
• More customizeable website, more personal.  I wanted a clean looking site, that looked like it was professionally designed, yet warm and personal.
• Free.

Weebly has that all.  You can pay more for extra features, but it's nice for me now just to start with what I have at http://www.mtolivelutheran.info/ which is looking just right.

Here's a online tutorial how to make weebly sites:  http://www.weeblytutorial.com/index.html

Happy church site making!

Easily distribute sermons on the web, podcasting, even video

Getting sermons online is questionably valuable.  So, might as well make it easy for the pastor to do, right?  Otherwise, duties don't get done, standards fall, or we just don't get the sermons up in time, or ever.  After all the best thing for your listeners is live, combined with archiving, for listening later, (like Tivo.)

But it's got to be easy.  That usually means compromises, such costs, or functionality.  So, I've put together a Google Docs spreadsheet that I'm filling out as I test out these different options.



Remember, sustainability is key as well.  Once the people start listening, will the service suddenly start charging? Or if it's free, will they disappear, along with all your hard work?  That's why download your uploaded sermons are important, if you want to keep them.  But why?  Just let the most recent go up to the cloud, for those who are traveling, or shut-ins.  Archiving is over-rated.

Just have an alternative to switch to, if it goes fritz.  So I'm trying to pick the two most functional ones, and use feedburner to switch between services if one fades away.