Episode 037 – Sep 17 2008

This week on WELSTech Martin and Sallie soar into the cloud of web-based computing applications and discuss the exciting, affordable possibilities for church office needs.

The discussion:

• Church Office Computing in the Cloud – Martin recently attended the Office 2.0 Conference, and he shares with us his vision of “cloud” or web-based applications for the church office.  You may follow along via Martin’s online “Church Office 2.0” SlideRocket presentation as you listen to the podcast discussion.
  • Browser – www.google.com/chrome
  • Martin’s “In The Cloud” blog post
  • File Server –
    • Amazon S3 – aws.amazon.com/s3
    • Jungle Disk – www.jungledisk.com
  • Office Suite – www.zoho.com
  • Presentations – www.sliderocket.com
  • Mind Mapping – www.mindmeister.com
  • E-mail – www.gmail.com 

The tidbits:

• Picks of the week (36:24)
  • 25 Tools – from Jane Hart, creator of Jane’s E-Learning Pick of the Day
  • Zoho Office Suite – www.zoho.com
• WELS.net feature (42:27)
  • Committee on Relief blog – relief.wels.net
• Of interest (44:11)
  • Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary Symposium on Church
    • September 22-23, 2008
    • www.wls.wels.net
• Community feedback (45:19)
  • Jason Winget’s congregation uses QuickBooks software for financial management, and he is looking for procedures for conducting a church accounting system audit.  Check out his WELSTech listserve post.

The featured artist:

• This week we close with the music of In His Service featuring WELS musicians Dr. Patricia Backhaus and Valerie Floeter (www.adagioconcepts.com) – O God, Your Hand the Heaven’s Made from their In His Time CD (47:10)

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