WELSTech Audio

297 – eBook Ch 4: Events and Announcements

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This week’s WELSTech features a discussion of sharing events and announcements on your web site plus photography picks, news on upcoming events (and an iPad giveaway) and some great listener contributions.

The discussion:

Share the news – Martin and Sallie continue the WELSTech 2013 Summer series, Church & School Website Content, with some helpful tips on sharing news on you web site. More and more members and school parents are consuming small bits of news in a more immediate time frame than in the past. Listen for ideas on breaking up your print newsletter into smaller stories throughout the month and establishing a Communication Committee to coordinate and facilitate news reporting.

  • Series resource page – Includes links to the e-Book and sample sites
  • Recent interviewee, Corissa Nelson, describes her congregation Communication Committee (19:50)
    • Picks of the week:
    • (16:44) Photo Hatchback AW Camera Backpack by Lowepro
    • Manfrotto 410 Junior Geared Tripod Head
      • Of interest:
      • (23:04) WELSTech turns 300 in just 3 weeks! Join us live at 5 p.m. Central on July 30 from the floor of Synod Convention at Martin Luther College – Live streamed via Hangouts on Air
      • WELSTech Camp is coming up on September 14 at Martin Luther College in New Ulm, MN. Register and attend the free event to be in the drawings for a Mimio Teach Bar and 16GB iPad!!
        • Community feedback:
        • (26:40) Big Bananagrams
        • Screenleap – Free Screen Sharing and Online Meeting Software
        • 5 Tips for Making a High Quality Video for Your Website
        • Apple iOS 7 for Education
        • iWorks is coming to the cloud
        • Touch typing alternatives for education – Typing Web and Type-fu
          • Coming up on WELSTech:

          (34:04) Episode 298 – Live streaming video is the topic of next week’s chapter in the continuing summer WELSTech eBook. (Release date – 07/16/13)

          The featured artist:

          (34:50) We close with the music of WELS musician and staff minister Benhur Khamrang (Reverbnation) – Our Creed

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