Facebook Tip: Fix Your News Feed & Save Time

You login to Facebook to do some ministry but instead spend 30 minutes looking at what old friends are doing, following endless rabbit trails of links, and start playing Farmville and Fishville simultaneously. To maximize your time spent on Facebook you need to optimize your news feed to eliminate distractions and allow for easy navigation [...]

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Outlook to Gmail–Or the Value of Cloud-Based Software

Cloud-based software frees your computer and your conscience from managing content, allowing you to focus your time online moving forward instead of looking backward. If your computer crashed right now how much data would you lose?  This may be a familiar story for you… Cloud-computing is internet-based computing whereby shared resources, software and information are [...]

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How to Integrate Blog Posts from Your Website & Your Facebook Fan Page

Here’s a screencast that shows you how to integrate blog posts from your campus website with your Facebook Fan page so that you can maximize your visibility with your students.

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Facebook Tip – Organize and Promote Your Ministry’s Events

With so many things fighting for the attention of the average college and high school student, it can be a struggle getting students to show up for anything, including class. The social media landscape, however, can make it a lot easier for your ministry to cut through the noise by greatly increasing the number of [...]

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USTREAM Streaming Video on Your WordPress Blog

Using a USTREAM live video feed on your blog is easy, and it makes finding your streaming  feed easy for your target audience! This screencast tutorial will help you embed both video and chat on your WordPress blog. NOTE: If you scroll down this page, you’ll see I have pasted some code that I refer [...]

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USTREAM Live Video Streaming Setup

USTREAM is a great tool to use for virtual meetings, allowing you to broadcast your meeting, and chat live with your viewers. Here’s a screencast that shows you how to login & set up video settings in USTREAM. (Addendum: At one point I mention “flash” based cameras, when I meant to say “firewire” based cameras.)

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Livestream Audio & Video Initial Setup

Livestream can be a great tool to use for virtual meetings, allowing you to broadcast your meeting, and chat live with your viewers. Here’s a screencast that shows you how to login & adjust your initial audio & video settings of livestream.

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WordPress Permalinks Issue on Bluehost

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There is a known bug with WordPress blogs hosted on Bluehost that will crash your site and prevent you from logging into your WordPress dashboard. The bug occurs if you change the permalink settings on your site. This tutorial will show you what triggers the bug, and how to fix it. If you’re not comfortable [...]

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WordPress Blog Tutorial: Installing a Google Calendar

Google Calendars are a great tool for any ministry. Multiple people can have access to updating them, and they can be easily installed onto your blog so that everyone who visits your site can be kept up to date on your ministry’s schedule of events. Managing the calendar is extremely easy since you only have [...]

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Facebook Event Promotion Basics

Facebook can be a great place to promote your event. Here are some basics of promoting a ministry event on Facebook, especially looking at linking to external pages & news feed tips.

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