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278 – Author! Author!
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Sallie Draper
March 5, 2013
March 5, 2013
This week on the WELSTech Podcast we talk with Pastor Rob Guenther, a long time WELSTech contributor, about his gospel outreach publishing efforts and Martin has a geeky RSS-to-bookmark-bar solution to share.
Podcast: Download (27.4MB)
The interview & discussion:
(2:54) Hall of Fame – Pastor Rob Guenther from Grace in Kenai, AK talked with Martin and Sallie about his recent self-publishing efforts which resulted in both an Amazon paperback and e-book listing of a collection of his sermons titled In Their Sandals. Penning your own book isn’t as hard as it sounds thanks to some amazing (and free) web 2.0 tools.
- Kindle Direct Publishing
- CreateSpace
- Scribd
- SlideShare
- Learn more about the ePub standard and e-book formats on Wikipedia
- Booktype and Booktype Pro
- Habitat by Inkling
- Apple iBooks Author
- Lulu
Ministry resources:
(29:55) Study guides and reviews of The Bible miniseries created by Pastor Jon Schroeder from Faith in Sharpsburg, GA
News in tech:
- (32:38) NIV 84 is removed from BibleGateway and YouVersion
- 50 million compromised in Evernote hack
Picks of the week:
- (32:38) What to use before showing Road to Emmaus
- Foxish Live RSS in the Chrome Web Store
Community feedback:
- (41:56) Markup – Paperless Grading for Teachers on Kickstarter
- Books Should Be Free
- Online giving options:
- Vanco
- JustGive.org
- EasyTithe.com
- MinistryGive.com
- Share your SMS solutions for congregation communication – Ideas from FreeTech4Teachers
- Charlie Rose interviews Salman Khan, creator of Khan Academy, about the new direction of education enabled by technology
- Mapping History
- Code.org published the What most schools don’t teach video – After School Club resources from Code Academy
- Worship presentation ideas
- Pastor Steve Schamber from Holy Trinity in Wyoming, MI shares his experience collaborating with Proclaim from Logos
- Pastor Nate Ericson shared a link to Lutheran Music’s PowerPoints of public domain hymns in Christian Worship
Coming up on WELSTech:
(53:49) Episode 279 – Next week on WELSTech Martin and Sallie talk with Pastor and MLC Communications Professor Mark Paustian and look at chapter 7 of Presentation Zen. (Release date – 03/12/13)
The featured artist:
(54:40) We close the podcast with music and video from Koine’s new Footsteps to the Cross concert DVD (koinemusic.com | DVD info) – Jesus, Grant that Balm and Healing
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