Episode 033 – Aug 20 2008

This week on WELSTech Martin and Sallie discuss take-aways from a conference on church media and Martin talks with Matt Frazier about a new church communication tool.

The discussion:

• Church Media 101 – Martin recently attended the ECHO: Church Media Conference in Dallas, TX and found a WELSTech listener’s dream suite of topics and tools for ministry in a digital age. Listen as he and Sallie discuss some of his impressions on the conference and a few of the ministry-centric applications he discovered.
  • Host audio and video sermons online – www.sermonplayer.com
  • Church Copyright Administration – www.churchca.com
  • Automated telephone message – www.phonevite.com
  • Read Martin’s blog posts from the conference – www.wels.net/imprint/technology

The interview:

• Church Communications Web 3.0 Style (19:30) – Joining Martin is Matt Frazier, CEO of Pursuant, to discuss web-based communications for congregations using a brand new Web 3.0 tool, Unifyer.
  • www.unifyer.com
  • Visit Matt’s blog – placematt.blogspot.com

The tidbits:

• Picks of the week (46:53)
  • Online timer – www.online-stopwatch.com
  • Online Bible collaboration – www.youversion.com
• WELS.net feature (53:22)
  • WELS Imprint blog – www.wels.net/imprint
• Of interest (56:00)
  • WELS Event Calendar – www.wels.net/jump/calendar
    • Church Librarians Organization Fall Conference – September 13 – Star of Bethlehem in New Berlin, WI
    • Friends of Seminary Day – October 4 – Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary
    • Schedule of fall district pastor conferences
• Community feedback (56:49)
  • Pastor John Maasch from Peace in Bradenton, FL is looking for the 2008-09 lectionary in a format that will import into calendar programs
  • Steve Brown from Messiah in South Windsor, CT shared a link to his worship resources blog, Worship Ideas You Can Use – sjbrown58.wordpress.com

The featured artist:

• We close with music of WELS pianist, Dawn Gehlhar – Nearer My God To Thee from her Inspirations CD (59:54)

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