Church Tech Dump 

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Dropzone and Dropbox: Two things I Love →

I’d been meaning to write about how awesome Dropzone and Dropbox are but TUAW has a good writeup on Dropzone at the above link. You’ve likely heard about Dropbox already. It’s the wicked easy, multi-platform cloud storage and backup tool that gets you 2GB of storage for free. It also makes sharing files a snap. But what is Dropzone? Dropzone is a simple Mac app that resides in...

Oct 30th

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OneBody: Open Source Social Network and Directory...

OneBody has released an open source version of their social network and directory software for churches and I’m wicked excited about it! <rant> Churches spend a lot of money on church management systems (ChMS). Over the last year, I’ve had several discussions with those in the church tech sphere about the lack of a viable, open source ChMS. It seems to me that the thousands of...

Oct 16th

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New Idea: Prayer Bounceback Text Messages « MEDIA... →

The guys at Media Salt are wicked clever. Check out how they are using text messages to facilitate a prayer initiative at chapel.org!

Oct 13th

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Your Church is Getting a (Flash) iPhone App!

Yesterday Adobe announced that Flash CS5 will allow developers to export their Flash projects as iPhone apps. I think that’s really cool and the announcement produced the following thoughts in me: Oh tight! Now I can develop some of my own apps instead of outsourcing to developers (which I don’t mind doing, for the record)! :-D Oh man. I wonder if this will increase all the garbage...

Oct 7th

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Free animoto accounts for non-profits! →

Just a quick note to say that if you’re church does not already have an animoto account or if you are paying for a business account to get all the rad benefits, you should sign up your non-profit for a FREE account. You get all the features of the business account…for free. http://animoto.com/cause

Oct 7th

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Watch

More evidence that I should have been a programmer. Seriously, while this tech may not yet replace the professional graphic designer, imagine how useful it would be to come up with composites like these during a brain storm meeting!

Oct 6th

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ScreenScape: Use the Web to Create Digital Display... →

Oh snap! I’ve been looking for a service like this to come out. My hopes were up when I discovered Your Screen a while back, but they seem to be dead in the water. At first glance ScreenScape seems to do what I created a while back with a hacked AppleTV (which we hope to deploy soon). Take a look and let us know what you think in the comments! UPDATE: ScreenScape is rad and if you’re...

Oct 1st