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Have you ever been in your office working and obsessing over a tune that you heard on your way to work (you have to admit that it happens to the best of us sometimes)? Pandora’s mission is to “play only music you love”. So lets take that song you were listening to on the way to work. Now create a profile and enter the artist or the song title and Pandora will automatically create a radio station centered around the acoustics, rhythms and vocals of that song or artist.

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If you enjoy listening to music and have been waiting for internet radio to evolve, I believe this is the perfect solution for you. Pandora even has apps for the iphone and you can even get the feed through some portable radios so you can listen at home, not just on the computer.

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Pandora

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Check out Noteflight if you want to write a little ditty in your browser.  Free, easy and no software to download.  You can listen to the notes as you enter them and then listen to your composition when your done.  Good site for basic music notation.

Link:  Noteflight

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ChurchMetrics is a resource available for free to churches that are looking for an easy way to share and track information about their church. ChurchMetrics “helps you keep tabs on attendance, giving, salvations, and baptisms at your church.”

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“ChurchMetrics is here to take care of the numbers, so you can focus on taking care of people.”  And don’t forget it’s free!

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ChurchMetrics

Church Marketing Sucks

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So, your nominating committee has asked you to be the missing link between communicating to the outside world and your church. Well, you can roll up your sleeves and put your anxiety aside. The Center for Church Communication has created the Church Marketing Lab on Flickr as a resource and forum to help churches do better marketing. In the Church Marketing Lab you can “Share your work, share your feedback, everybody wins. Share something that’s already in the can and out the door, or share a work in progress and put the comments to use.”

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Being able to communicate with others, like you, who are responsible for actually sharing their churches message to the community is almost to good an opportunity to pass up. I definately recommend you check it out! There are even local groups set up in certain locals, if your interested in sharing ideas on a micro level.

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Church Marketing Lab (beta)

Center for Church Communication

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• Quick Notes or calendar updates to your cell phone.
• Can use as a to-do list
• Can type in things to remember

As I slipped into my car last evening, my cell phone made some new noises. “Who’s calling me I thought” not usually getting calls late on Friday evening.  Then I looked at the screen.  They were messages from my Google Calendar, recently set up on the mobile tab of the calendar page.

Just set up your phone with a verification code from Google and you will be notified in advance with a reminder message of whatever is on your calendar.  Fairly cool tool

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For some time now I’ve wanted to preach in more than one place at the same time.  This might be the way.

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• Preach in more than one place with High Speed internet connections.
• Virtual Prayer meetings and visits.
• Area Pastors Meetings
• ?

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HitCast Global

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Fellow technoministry blogger, Josue Sanchez, created an awesome slide show using  animoto, for a project we’re working on using ning. Animoto’s slide show presentation software does pretty much all the work for you. It even puts your slide show to music, or you can choose from different genre’s and musicians.

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If you are looking for an awesome way to use all the pictures you’ve taken of your youth group, working on something for a family reunion, or wanting to show your church family what your youth group is all about this would be a great way to do it. Its free for short shows and also has a paid business model which produces you an HD quality slide show. I definately recommend that you check it out.

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Animoto

Josue’s animoto

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This Washington Post article demonstrates the indefinability of the most recent generations, but links them with the use of technology that separates them from other generations.

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You might find the answer here as to why tech is important to our church culture, at least one of the answers.

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I took a while to get serious about Facebook.  I just didn’t see much good in it.  Then I came across this pdf book.  It changed my mind and I began playing around with the facebook site.  If you’ve been a little skeptical about social networking, check out this free ebook.  It might make you take a second look at the whole scene.  Josue had to work on me for a while before I got interested.

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Relationships are the stuff of ministry, are they not?  Facebook is a great relationship builder in the virtual world.  And it spills over into the real world faster than we think.  There are a number of ministry uses I can think of and you will too once you get acquainted with the site.

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http://www.facebook.com

http://ministrymarketingcoach.com/free-e-books/

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Have you ever seen one of those big non-profit groups that have their own affinity credit card and wished that you could have your ministry partners give back to you in the same way? Have you been denied participation in such a program because your organization is to small? Cardpartner.com claims to be on the side of the little guy, and will help you start an affinity program regardless of your customer base, constituency or membership size.

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If your ministry or organization relies heavily on member participation and donations this may be a way for you to generate more revenue with an already loyal audience. CardPartner claims “now smaller organizations can create a Visa credit card program for their supporters, receive $50 per active account and a percentage of every purchase made.” Sounds good doesn’t it, but before you jump in and sign up make sure you read through their list of FAQ’s to make sure they’re a proper fit for you.

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CardPartner

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