We interrupt our two-part series on sharing audio to answer a couple of requests from churches that are looking to use text-messaging for various communication needs in the church. Texting or SMS (Short Message Service) has been around since the early 90s making it one of the most durable technologies out there. It can certainly…
If you are looking for my latest equipment recommendations for sharing sermon audio, check out my page, “Recording Church Sermon Audio.” Now that sharing video online has become simple and inexpensive, I encourage churches to look into the possibility of sharing video recordings of their Sunday sermons online. However, some churches, for various reasons, aren’t there…
In response to my last post, “Going All In on Squarespace and Weebly (Sort Of)”, Jim at Berkely United Methodist Church in Austin shared his church’s new site built on Squarespace. They were a church who suffered through a hack on their WordPress site that resulted in a lot of work and downtime. They are…
When I first started as Director of Communications and Media for the Rio Texas Annual Conference, I wanted to find one church website solution that I could offer to most every church. Finding a “one size fits all” solution proved more difficult than I imagined. After months of working with local churches…
Queue is a funny word. It comes from a latin-based French word that basically means “tail.” Somewhere in the 1800s, it came to be used when referring to a line of people. Basically, it is just a fancy word for “line.” We love to use fancy words for boring stuff. I almost didn’t write about…
I am going to get back to my series on the Gospel and Social Media. But first, I want to write about General Conference 2016. There are plenty of tweets, posts, and blogs about the legislative issues before the conference, but I want to talk about the tech. I want to give a big shout out…
The blog has been a little lonely lately. I have been filling in preaching in the traditional service at University United Methodist Church in San Antonio during their time of pastoral transition. It is good to get a chance to proclaim the Gospel on Sunday mornings though it makes it a little hard to keep…
I woke up in the middle of the night last night and remembered that I had received a text message last week that I hadn’t replied to. It wasn’t the first time this has happened lately. Text messaging is a very immediate means of communications. I almost always answer right away. However, if it is…
Listening to NPR this morning, I heard a piece from KUT Austin that church leaders should listen to: This Video App Unintentionally Helped a Deaf Austinite Start a Crepe Restaurant – KUT.org It is about crepes. It is also about an app. More importantly, it is about how someone leveraged technology to make something happen. It…
Names are powerful, personal, emotional. Don’t believe me? Think about how you feel when someone butchers your name. It happens all the time. For some reason, it sticks in my brain, a memory from high school. I was at a music competition. Yes, I was in band in high school. You aren’t surprised are you? I…
