Evernote introduces Sponsored Accounts!
Well I guess teams is the name of the game in tech today! Evernote has announced sponsored accounts for groups!
What’s a sponsored account? In a nut shell it means that your employer pays the bill for your Evernote account. Then you can create a corporate Notebook or any other sort of shared notebook to stay in colab with everyone you work with. Nice!
Dropbox for Teams!
Dropbox has announced Dropbox for Teams! This is welcome news for design teams like ours! We’re always needing to share files with each other and have access to files while away from the office.
Dropbox for teams includes shared quotas (nice!), centralized administration for managing users, adding administrators and billing, plus the security and versioning you already enjoy!
Pricing starts at about $800/yr. Not bad but definitely not negligible for smaller churches and businesses.
8 Bad Habits that Crush Your Creativity and Stifle Your Success
“The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts the moment you get up and doesn’t stop until you get into the office.” — Robert Frost
We Need More Tools Like Missionify « MEDIA SALT
It’s like About.me but for people on mission. Awesome!
September Webcast: 7 Principles for Effective Communications :: MinistryCOM
Terrell Sanders of MinistryCOM was kind enough to invite me to join him in a webcast where we discussed 7 Principles for Effective Communications.
Whether you are new to church communications, or a seasoned veteran, these principles will help you plan and prioritize better. They can also help you educate your leadership (and staff) on some fundamental concepts of church communications.
Check out the video after the jump!
Stop Ripping and Editing DVDs
Over the past eight years, I’ve been asked dozens of times to rip a DVD and re-edit parts of it. I’ve made montages of Braveheart, edited the dirty bits out of Fight Club, and taken the swearing out of The Matrix. The request I get most often, however, is to simply reorder some scenes on a time line and burn to a DVD for easy playback of a few clips.
That’s illegal in a gray area of legality that I don’t wish to traverse. All of it. And I don’t do that stuff anymore.
So what’s a copyright law abiding pastor to do? Well, I can’t help you with montages of 300 or editing the cuss out of Pulp Fiction. But if all you want is to show clips from a movie in a specific order, ProPresenter has your back.
You might already know that ProPresenter can play back a DVD from within the app. But did you know that you can create a playlist of clips from a DVD for playback later? It’s easy! After setting a few in and out points you can construct a list of clips from the DVD and play them back at your convenience. For more detailed instructions and some screen shots, visit this ProPresenter Help document.
NOTE: Even though playing back DVD clips in this manner does not break copyright law, you still need a church video license from CVLI to display clips from many movies. Also, I’m not a lawyer.
Vimeo Releases Universal Player
Oh yes! This is what I’ve been waiting for. Now I upload to Vimeo and my content is delivered to mobile and desktop browsers looking all rad and stuff! I wonder, do I really need my own media server at this point?
Could the Sony NEX-VG10 Spell the End for HDSLR Video?
The Sony NEX-VG10 is a $2000 large sensor camcorder that supports SLR lenses. So if you’ve been drooling over all the swank video shot on HDSLR’s over at Vimeo but you just can’t see yourself shooting video with a still camera, this might be a solution for you.
Take note, however, that this camcorder leans pretty far towards the consumer end of “prosumer” with it’s lack of XLR inputs and variable frame rates.
Get all the rad details as well as some great commentary at the link above. And let me know if this is a camcorder you would use over a HDSLR offering in the comments.
