How to Make a Good Design — EASY!!

It seems that churches often suffer from horrid-design-syndrome.  Which is a horrid shame.  I would consider designing to be extremely important in the church.  For events, website, logos, classes, promotions, announcements, etc.  It does a few extremely important things…

Creates interest and attention on the event
Indicates effort and interest put into the event
Communicates real desire for [...]

21 Factors that Influence the First Impression of Your Website’s Visitors

When a new visitor comes to your website for the first time an initial impression will be formed pretty quickly. A good first impression will drastically increase the chances of that visitor returning again, and a bad first impression will be difficult to overcome.
This list looks at 21 factors that will influence your visitor’s impression [...]

Skype - Video conferencing with Missionaries

There are much more applications that you could use Skype for, but this seems to be the most popular for churches.  
Skype is great because it is free, can be on any platform (Mac or Windows), and can do audio, video, or instant messaging.
Here is an idea to use it to stay in contact with [...]

Easy Worship - Multimedia Presentation Software

If you are inclined to using screens in your church Easy Worship makes this very intuitive.  The difficulty of making screens helpful rather than distracting is to make everything work during a live service.  Easy Worship makes transitions very smooth and puts all features into one simple interface.
Then there is the challenge of accommodating the file formats, Bible [...]

Gcast - free Podcast enabler

Pretty much every pastor I have ever talked to about a website has mentioned the desire for having their sermons available online.  Well, there are a lot of ways to do that, but it can get expensive pretty quick if you are not careful.  Hosting space is one of the major costs when talking about [...]

Email Mailing Lists

Simply one single email address (ex. staff@baptistchurch.com) that is received by multiple recipients.   It is like everyone is in the room hearing what others are saying.  There are basically 2 ways you can set them up: 
1. Everyone sees the email, but all replies are directed to the original sender of the email
2. The whole [...]

Airset

Airset is one of the ways to keep groups organized and informed.   Most likely you have many different groups in your church, all with different plans and agendas.  Sometimes it is difficult to keep them all under one umbrella to keep a handle on what is going on.  Enter Airset.
It has some great features [...]

What this Blog is About

This is about tricks of the trade.  Tips and tools for you to be more organized, efficient, and effective in this technological age.  There are millions of webpages and advertisements, but which one is really the best?
This is an unbiased log of recommended tools that have proved helpful in the ministry.  You wont use all [...]