180 – April Showers: Office Worker Resources

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

Listen now or download Episode 180 (53:51)
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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