May 27, 2015

394 – Touring the Backlot!

42 minutes

It’s WELSTech time again, and this week viewers are in for a treat as Martin and Sallie are together in the WELS studio for a professional multi-camera production. The discussion topic is live streaming, Sallie’s got a new gadget grid, and Martin shares great plugins for church webmasters.

The discussion:

Tune in to Channel 6 – Martin and Sallie are broadcasting from the new WELS studio at the Center for Mission and Ministry in Waukesha, WI. They share a quick studio tour and not one, not two, but three lists related to live streaming!

5 Questions To Ask

Who is your audience?

Why will they watch?

What is the content?

When? – Live and/or archived

Who will “own” it?

5 Things You Must Do

Nail the audio

Get smart about lighting

Have a workable budget

Learn basic production techniques

Promote

5 Ways To Live Stream

Livestream – $1,000 per year on the WELS account

YouTube – Free

Google Hangouts – Free

Streamingchurch.tv – $1,200 per year

FinalWeb – $400 per year

Join us in person for WELSTech’s 400th, live at WELSTech Conference 2015, July 9 – 11 in Waukesha, WI

Congrats to our $25 Amazon gift card raffle winner, Pastor Nate Wagenknecht – He’ll be at the conference presenting on “Creating Christian Community”

News in tech:

Google Tone

WELS now:

WELS Q&A

Picks of the week:

Cocoon Grid-It – Sallie’s Grid-It

Biblia.com plugins

Community feedback:

dlvr.it

Permission Click

The plot to kill the password

Device Mode Emulation in Google Chrome

Apple Education Recycling

First Rule of Usability – Don’t Listen to Users

Coming up on WELSTech:

Episode 395 – While Martin is away, Jason Schmidt guest hosts with Sallie for the last installment of the WELSTech Goes to School series. Watch and participate on 06/02/15 @ 4 pm Central – welstechlive.wels.net