September 17, 2008

Episode 037 – Sep 17 2008

50 minutes

This week on WELSTech Martin and Sallie soar into the cloud of web-based computing applications and discuss the exciting, affordable possibilities for church office needs.

The discussion:

Church Office Computing in the Cloud – Martin recently attended the Office 2.0 Conference, and he shares with us his vision of “cloud” or web-based applications for the church office. You may follow along via Martin’s online “Church Office 2.0” SlideRocket presentation as you listen to the podcast discussion.

Browser – www.google.com/chrome

Martin’s “In The Cloud” blog post

File Server –

Amazon S3 – aws.amazon.com/s3

Jungle Disk – www.jungledisk.com

Office Suite – www.zoho.com

Presentations – www.sliderocket.com

Mind Mapping – www.mindmeister.com

E-mail – www.gmail.com

The tidbits:

Picks of the week (36:24)

25 Tools – from Jane Hart, creator of Jane’s E-Learning Pick of the Day

Zoho Office Suite – www.zoho.com

WELS.net feature (42:27)

Committee on Relief blog – relief.wels.net

Of interest (44:11)

Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary Symposium on Church

September 22-23, 2008

www.wls.wels.net

Community feedback (45:19)

Jason Winget’s congregation uses QuickBooks software for financial management, and he is looking for procedures for conducting a church accounting system audit. Check out his WELSTech listserve post.

The featured artist:

This week we close with the music of In His Service featuring WELS musicians Dr. Patricia Backhaus and Valerie Floeter (www.adagioconcepts.com) – O God, Your Hand the Heaven’s Made from their In His Time CD (47:10)

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