On today’s Tech Help for Churches: Snapchat is not the devil For some reason, Christians often see the Devil in everything, everywhere. While it might be the case that the enemy is looking to cause trouble, I don’t think he’s everywhere we fear he is. In Wesleyan theology, the concept…
If you’ve been following along, you’ll know that I’m a big fan of goals. I have goals for the year, but for this week my major goal was to launch sign-ups for Creating Church. I’m not sold on the cover, so I’ll continue to work on that, but if you’d…
Screens, CCLI, and Web Content TT on the Church Tech Group on g+ Church A/V Technology – Jan 8, 2014 #Market I know a church who is in the market for new projector screens for our sanctuary. Do any of you have a recommendation for screens in rooms with a…
On today’s Tech, No Babel: 4k and the Codecs that go with it. HD has only really been around for a few years, but technology rests for no one. now 4k is coming. What is it and how will they get all that video to go through the internet if…
On today’s Tech Help for Churches: 5 reasons you might not be podcasting (even though you think you are) 1. You only upload to YouTube or Vimeo. 2. You upload wav or aiff files. 3. You export videos that aren’t using the H.264 codec (and don’t transcode into ones that…
Here are the latest questions: H on churchmedia.net writes: I need some advice I’ve been in charge of the multi media for a couple of years, We ‘re a small church, everything is voluntary. There are four other people who help out with the multi media and I can’t rely…
Not much harder than just giving the gifts away, but the delight of the surprise makes me want to do this.
On today’s Tech, No Babel: Why your church shouldn’t do video. Video isn’t a cure all. It’s hard and expensive. People spend long hours doing it, but it’s the most effective form of communication we have, so it’s worth doing, if you know what you’re getting into. Subscribe for free:…
Here’s the last update from last year: [table id=6 /] What did I learn? Take a look at the numbers in columns 2, 3, and 4 above. You might notice that I didn’t make all my goals. That might make you sad, but look again. For the year, nothing went…
On today’s Tech Help for Churches: Looking Back into the Past and Forward into the Future: It doesn’t seem possible that I’ve only been doing this show since April. In that time we’ve talked about wordpress, podcasting, social media, websites, and all manner of other internet and web technologies. Next year,…