Looking to add playable MP3s to your site, check out Yahoo! Media Player. But adding a single call to a script, any MP3 on a page gains a play button, which when pressed pops out a nifty little player. V. nice. A very easy option for Church web-sites.
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Yahoo! Media Player
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Boyink is Building a Church Site
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Boyink Interactive (Michael Boyink) is Building a Church Site as the basis for a training course on using ExpressionEngine.
Planning Center
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Planning Center is an online based organiser for putting together a church service. It includes heaps of features for organising church musos. Here’s a quick intro video to see what I mean.
It’s not free however, well there is a free version, but it can only roster 10 people. So, to do one service at TAC it would be $14US/month, $29US/month for 2 services.
A similar application is Church Director, but it’s major flaw is the lack of a song database. In talking with the developer, there’s no plan for a song databse.
I’d still like to see free open source software to do this. I started building something a while back, but it was more a project to get me started with CodeIgniter.
[found via Glass::Brian]
Wikis in Plain English
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A video explaining wikis. It makes a good point that groups are still using email to organise things.
It seems to me that churches should start making use of wikis – some possibilities include storing documentation and sharing bible studies, as well as planning events and keeping an index of groups.
If you’re at TAC and are interested in contributing to a wiki, let me know – there’s already a wiki running on our church site.
Video and Church
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A while back, I pointed to a post on another blog about 3 videos every church should have.
Here’s an example of a church in the Sydney Anglican Diocese with the first video, an introduction video on YouTube: Summer Hill Anglican Welcome Message. The video is also on their site.
Three videos every church website should have
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An excellent article from ourchurch.com about three videos every church website should have. Photos are better than text, but videos are even better than photos – particularly when you’re trying to show visitors to your website what your church is like. Any volunteers at TAC? Maybe a 2007 project.
Whilst you can easily add video to your website with the help of YouTube, DreamHost have made it easy for their customers providing conversion facilities and a flash media player on their media site.