This morning I set up a Twitter account for my church (@ParkieChurch). Probably nothing spectacular about that, but it got me thinking about how useful a tool of could be in a church community. Now I am reasonably sure that I am probably the only person at my church who uses Twitter in any real way, so will it be useful? Well my plan is to embed the feed onto the webpage and therefore we can have an easily updateable section of the front page which can answer the perenial …

I’m playing with a new Wordpress theme. I really like it but it is taking a while to get right!
Stay tuned and I’ll see how I go

LifeChurch.tv announces ChurchMetrics.com

Introducing ChurchMetrics from ChurchMetrics on Vimeo.

In today’s demanding online world, churches are being asked by their communities to increasingly provide new, exciting and engaging content on the web. Many traditional church web sites are little more than an electronic brochure which only allow static content and require personnel trained in html to make the simplest of modifications.
Enter a different kind of web technology that allows the owner to enter content at will, change settings as well as look and feel, all with the click of a button. The Content Management System [1](usually called a CMS) …

VidBlaster is a relatively new product from Mike Versteeg, well known for his work on CastBlaster, a podcast production tool.
I tiraled the product with a simple 2 camera set-up using ambient light. Have a look and see for yourself!

Leave a comment about how you think you could use this product?
BTW, if you are using Firefox (as I would recommend!) you may need this plugin which allows you to run windows media inside of firefox.
http://port25.technet.com/pages/windows-media-player-firefox-plugin-download.aspx