April 20, 2011

180 – April Showers: Office Worker Resources

53 minutes

This week the WELSTech Podcast “April Shower” rains down all types of resources to make the church and school office run smoothly.

Our apologies for the audio quality during the last 10 minutes of today’s podcast. We experienced technical difficulties with the recording.

The discussion:

Raining resources for office workers – For this week’s “April Shower”, Martin and Sallie cover a long list of tools to assist the “nerve center” of the congregation and school, the office.

Martin’s Is it good to be “in the clouds”? blog post

Online File Storage

DropBox

Box.net

Windows Live SkyDrive

Google Docs

Amazon Cloud Drive

AVG LiveKive

PogoPlug

Backups

Mozy

Carbonite

Backblaze

Remote Access

TeamViewer

LogMeIn

Ultra VNC

Network Servers on the WELSTechWiki

Office Suites

From the recent WELSTech archives > Office 2010

OpenOffice

LibreOffice

ShopWELS.net

Newsletters

Microsoft Publisher

Adobe InDesign

Scribus

OpenClipArt.org

iStockPhoto

PhotoXpress

Stock.xchng

Sample office documents on the WELSTech Wiki

Productivity in the church office

Church Management Software

Shepherd’s Staff

Church 360

Christian Computing Magazine > Comparison Chart

Communications

MailChimp e-news

Facebook Pages on the WELSTech Wiki

Forms – Jot Form | Wu-Foo

Google Calendar | Google Calendar for churches & schools on the WELSTech Wiki

Volunteers

WELSTech archives > Getting and Keeping Volunteers

Volunteer Spot

SignApp Now

Pick a Time

YouCanBook.Me

Ministry resources:

(35:55) Walther’s Law and Gospel is now available for Kindle

News in tech:

(37:10) The Flip camera is no more

Google Video is dumping content

Contest winners:

(39:36) Concluding the Glo Bible giveaways on our personal blogs (martinspriggs.com and salliedraper.com), Martin and Sallie use random.org to pick winners. Listen to find out if you are one of the newest Glo Bible owners.

Picks of the week:

(41:57) LetteringDelights.com

SugarSync.com

Of interest:

(47:41) FinalWeb Training in New Ulm, MN and Milwaukee, WI

FinalWeb for Teachers in New Ulm on June 27 and Milwaukee on August 1 – bit.ly/fw4teachers

FinalWeb for Dummies in New Ulm June 28-30 and Milwaukee August 2-4 – bit.ly/fw4dummies

Community feedback:

(48:11) A great list of links were shared via the WELSTech Diigo group:

Bloom’s Taxonomy and the Digital World

Target Map

Online Font Converter

Cloud Magic

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Coming up on WELSTech:

(50:41) Episode 181 – The “April Showers” conclusion may turn into an April storm as Gail Potratz joins the discussion and we share a [gigantic] compilation list of teacher resources. (Release date – 04/27/11)

The featured artist:

(51:30) We close the podcast with the music of Branches Band (www.branchesband.com |Facebook) – Hosanna, Loud Hosanna from their “Sing, My Tongue” CD

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