YouVersion.com – Online and Mobile Bible Reader

Like many others, I’ve been checking out YouVersion.com. Ok – so I’ve been mostly checking out the BlackBerry edition, but that’s just detail.

Filed under: Online tools, Resources, Bible Reader, Online tools

Save Time: Use Templates

Having helped many groups, I know that templates are not always used or even well-known.  So I wanted to highlight them because they can save you time and frustration … and potentially make you look really good in the process 🙂 . 

Filed under: Communication Tools, Free Stuff, Time Savers, Mac, MS Office, Online tools, Software, time management

Free Countdowns and a Few Worship Loops

Here are a few sites to grab free countdowns or some worship loops for those who like such things. 

Filed under: Free Stuff, Online tools, freebies, Online tools

What Is… Pandora and Slacker?

[UPDATE:  I wrote Pandora about using it for background at church services, youth group, etc.  See note below.]

Welcome to “What Is… ?” This is a category I’ve been wanting to start for a while.  I get asked “what is…” a lot and I think it’ll be fun to have a category that simply defines, or even introduces, many of the online tools that are out there. 

Filed under: Online tools, What is ... ?, Online tools

Good Online Software Training

Generally speaking, most items on this site are DIY, free or virtually free because of purpose for the site.  But a primary goal is assisting with good tools:  those things that give you good bang-for-your-minutes so you can spend more time on ministry and less on technology frustrations.

In that vein, I want to mention a resource that is not free but can produce significant time and frustration savings.  Very little costs us more time and frustration than having the software we need, but not being able to get it to do what we want.  We’ve all been there and Lynda.com can help.

Filed under: Resources, Software, MS Office, Online tools, Software, training