I spend a lot of time on the internet, maybe too much time, but during that time I stumble upon a lot of websites that have helpful tools that can help a Church, Church ministry, or organization. Some of those tools are available right from the web without having to download anything or even pay. These are some tools that I have seen used and/or have used myself that could be helpful to your Church or Church ministry.
TweetGrid is a multiple twitter search engine. Now you might be asking yourself, “How could this help my Church?” How can it not? Most Churches are now building online communities or have a growing online community, and many of the pastors/leaders are usually involved in social networking which helps in marketing a Church, finding your target audience, and minister to their online communities.
By using TweetGrid, ministry leaders can use the grid-like search engine and enter in multiple search terms having to do with their ministry as a way to target online readers, the lost, the latest news/or political buzz, or anything that could help their ministry in any way. I have used it, and was able to find content and people who were interested in what I had to say(on my blog).
So you’re asking how could “Jing” help out a ministry? Simple, Jing allows you to share images and screencasts quick an easy with other people. This is more helpful between staff members of a Church ministry, rather than outreach itself, but still a helpful tool. Jing allows you to capture images and videos(up to 5 minutes of video) and either save them to your hard drive, upload them to Flickr, Youtube, or Tech Smith’s Screencast,com service with free space.
This is an example of an image: http://screencast.com/t/C5oDaMad8JN
This is an example of a video: http://screencast.com/t/m6F6aauUb
When your upload is done, Jing automatically pastes a copy of the link to your clipboard in which you can give to anyone to view. Once that person clicks on the link, they will be automatically redirected to Screencast.com or whatever service you’ve used and view the image or video.
You can also add text, boxes, and highlight areas of emphasis to help your viewer understand the capture more. This tool is extremely useful when I am design a sermon slide, or some kind of flier for my church, because it allows me to easily share something with my pastors rather then sending an email or file and downloading and waiting. It saves time, effort, and is extremely useful.
These two tools are extremely useful for the Church. I have found that they have either made life just that much easier in it’s respectable case.
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