Google Base - Share your Sermons February 16, 2007
Google has launched Google Base and is targeting ‘religious writings’.
“Share your sermons, essays and other religious writing with Google users worldwide by uploading them for free to Google Base.”
Go to Google Base to upload sermons & learn how >
Are you passionate about church technology? February 15, 2007
ChurchBIT is a google group centered around what’s next in church web applications and internet technology. If this is something you are actively involved in and passionate about, apply to join ChurchBIT and join in the conversation.
Church Dashboard October 11, 2006
Church Dashboard is creating one page that church administrators, pastors or other leaders can view multiple to look at their backend systems, membership reports, content management system, financial reports and any other reporting system that integrates into ChurchDashboard.com. The system will be similiar to Google Personalized Homepage where users can build the reports they would like to see.
The system will allow vendors (Content Management Companies, Church Management Systems, Financial Systems and others) provide secure feeds and eventually editing capability from one login environment. This is a great idea and if you are a Web 2.0 company, something you should look to get involved in. There are already a number of companies signed-up to participate.
Building Church 2.0 Web Applications? October 1, 2006
These are the top 10 things auinteractive learned from attending the Future of Web Apps Conference 2006 in San Francisco earlier this month. The summit was hosted by Carson Systems and included speakers like Kevin Rose, Mike Arrington, Mike Davidson, and more. It’s a condensed and aggregated summary of points covered by different speakers throughout the conference that I found most useful.
10 Things That Will Make Or Break Your Website
[also read SonSpring’s Gospelcon Internet Ministry Recap.]
“The list” of Christian social networks September 27, 2006
it was bound to happen. With the rise of MySpace & Friendster amongst others, Christians have responded with their own social networks. Here are a few:
Social networks using PHPFOX:
- yourchristianspace.com
- christianspace360.com/
- coolteens4christ.com/
- jcfaith.com
- christunion.com
- inchristnet.com
Social networks using Alstrasoft E-friends:
Other Christian Social networks:
- holypal.com
- praize.com
- oaktreeidea.org
- mypraize.com
- battlecry.com
- dittytalk.com
- christianster.com
- Missionaries.in
- crossconnector.com
- people2pray.com
- ministryhome.org
- youthroots.com
- 5loaves.net
- ChristiansUK.com
- faithbuddies.com
- Connectourpeople.com
- myflock.com
- cmatch.com
- spirittag.com
- swordwalk.com
- churchcircle.org
- missionster.net
- ldscircle.org (Mormon)
- churchster.org
- meetfish.com
List of Web 2.0 Apps and the church September 19, 2006
Here is a semi-definitive list of web 2.0 applications for churches
People2Pray
People2Pray is a web-based application for managing and sharing prayer requests.
Organize. Store and categorize your prayer requests online, access them from any Web browser.
Share. Allow friends and communities access to view your requests, leave comments, and be notified when your requests are updated.
Remember. Store old request in the archive and later reflect on how God has worked in your life.
eBible
eBible.com allows you to search the bible, read the bible, save their bookmarks, and invite friends to share notes all for free! Here are some reasons for signing up:
* FREE. It’s completely free to have an eBible.com account
* PERSONALIZE. Save personal bookmarks, assign topics/tags, add your own notes
* COMMUNITY. Email verses to friends and add them to “My Community” and share your bookmarks and notes with each other.
* BOOKSHELF. Start building your own custom Bookshelf online. Free Nelson Illustrated Bible Commentary (limited time)
* ACCESS ANYWHERE. Login and access all your bookshelf titles, bookmarks, notes, topics and community features on any machine with an Internet connection, anywhere in the world
CrossConnector : Manage Mission Trips & Church Activities
CrossConnector helps you plan and manage mission trips and church activities. It works like a blog, so you’ll get your own website where people can read your messages and check out your projects. You can coordinate with churches and missionaries, send messages to supporters (or anyone), post messages like a blog and invite people to leave comments, research and search past and current mission work, and lots more!
Press: SonSpring: CrossConnector, Church Friendly Web 2.0
Sermon Cloud: Sermon Audio/Mp3 Syndication August 4, 2006
Sermon Cloud offers churches FREE Advanced Sermon Syndication & mp3 services. Are you interested in podcasting, syndicating and using all the other ‘Web 2.0′ buzzwords for your church? Sermon Cloud is a website for a community to interact with sermons. What are the powerful sermons people are listening to? Who are the up-and-coming preachers of the day? Where are the messages about themes that you need to hear? How can you find a great preacher in your home town? Sermon Cloud was designed to help you with all of these questions.
Sermon Cloud Features include Resampling mp3’s to be optimized for the internet, Syndicating content (Integrate directly into iTunes store, syndicate through RSS feeds.), Display recent sermons on your church website, Podcasting mp3, Sermon Streaming Jukebox player, Tagging System, Commenting on sermons, Community recommending sermons, Searching for sermons and more…