Church Management Systems
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How to Create Graphics for Websites & Social Media
The upshot is if you are using any sort of multi-platform media strategy, you spend half your time adjusting the sizes of your images for different platforms.
Radio Spectrum: Accessibility or Entertainment?
Radio Spectrum Management have been circulating a consultation and discussion document, “Preparing for 5G in New Zealand – Technical Consultation”. The “gotcha” in the fine print is that one option …
A quick guide to using microphones effectively; a presenter’s perspective
A lot of us never need to get behind the business end of a microphone. But for those who have to present regularly, it is important to have a basic …
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Church Websites: Part One
So, why have a parish/congregation website? Like many things in the communications field, the first question is, “What are you trying to achieve? What is that makes this a desirable objective for us to accomplish?” Given that there is no truly free way to develop a website – at the very least someone will spend time, and time has a value, even if we don’t end up paying money for it. We need to make sure that the resources we spend make us a return of the type we are looking for.
Carols by Smartphone Light
This free Christmas Carol App might prove useful. Available for both Apple and Android, the app lists the words to lots of favourite carols.
Enabling Inclusion
I believe it is fair to say that the original motivation for a lot of church sound systems was the capability to record services to cassette, which could then be distributed to the housebound, the ill and others who might be interested.
Installing the Right AV Display
first place. The surest way to waste AV money is to acquire devices that don’t actually meet the needs of the situation. Another sure way is to not install systems properly. Improper installation can lead to systems being “too hard” to use, create safety hazards and/or poor quality displays.
How to Choose the Right AV Display
How to Choose the Right AV Display – There’s more to picking a display device than price and performance. Let’s look at what factors you should think about before you go shopping!
Office 365 for non-profits
Microsoft has a global philanthropic program where they donate licences to their own products to qualified charities around the world, administered by a global charity called TechSoup Global.
Praising the Lord with microphones and Facebook
We need to find ways to “translate” our message to make ourselves more relevant, particularly to our youth. “Better use of ‘Technology’,” they say, “is one way to do this. But we don’t know how.” Technology is not be the be-all-and-end-all to being relevant, but it is useful.