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Mr. Nifty - who has written 161 posts on Mister Nifty.
Brian is an assistant pastor at The Pentecostals of Cooper City. In his free time you can find him behind a camera at weddings and other events. He also works in graphic design and web development and is a police chaplain for the city of Miramar, Florida. Brian is married to the lovely Shanna Fegter.
Google Alerts
Keep track of what the web is saying about your church or you personally by signing up for Google Alerts. Plug in some keyword searches to track. It’s easy! http://google.com/alerts/
Continue reading...Free Wordpress SMS plugin from Mister Nifty
Saturday, December 13, 2008
I’m very excited to announce the latest version of my new plugin for Wordpress. EasySMS installs right into the back-end admin panel and a simple sidebar form installs by dragging and dropping the widget on your sidebar. Once people start subscribing, you can categorize them in groups and send SMS messages right from Wordpress. Another [...]
Continue reading...Win a free Flickr Pro account for Christmas!
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Congratulations to Dickie Adams and Goa Observer for being the lucky winners of a brand new shiny Flickr Pro account for Christmas. Check out Freelance Switch where Dickie Adams is a contributing editor: http://www.freelanceswitch.com Check out Goa Observer’s Flickr page at: http://flickr.com/photos/goaobserverstream/ For Christmas this year I am giving two blessed Mister Nifty readers a free Flickr Pro [...]
Continue reading...MP3 Merge
Thursday, November 20, 2008
If you record your services on CD chances are the audio is broken up into tracks. For those who don’t record digitally, this is a problem when trying to create a podcast. Now you can take all of those annoying little tracks and combine them into one with Merge MP3. Grab it here. (via Lifehacker)
Continue reading...Google Apps equals super productivity.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Everyone and their brother uses Gmail these days because of its pure awesomeness. I have converted most of my friends and they love it. The usefulness of a gmail account extends far beyond email to online documents, calendar, rss reader, and custom websites. Individual accounts are great, but they really don’t meet the needs of [...]
Continue reading...Free statistics manager for churches
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Church Metrics has finally gone live. If you’ve ever been involved in church administration on any level, you understand the headache it is to keep track of data and report on that information. From attendance to baptisms to giving reports, ChurchMetrics.com gives you all the tools you need to analyze your data. You can track [...]
Continue reading...Get better visibility for your site!
Monday, October 27, 2008
If you use Wordpress, you will want to grab All In One Search Engine Optimization pack. This adds a tab below each page/post that allows you to create a unique title/description/keywords for each post entry. This is important stuff for search engines to rank your pages. Grab it here!
Continue reading...Adding A Google Map to Wordpress
Saturday, October 25, 2008
This is a simple tutorial, but yet worthy of a look for those who don’t know how to embed a Google map of their church onto their website. Thanks to the techs from Uniting Church.
Continue reading...Wordpress Question
Saturday, October 25, 2008
This is a great site I found to help you through some of the more technical aspects of Wordpress. http://www.wpquestions.com
Continue reading...Optimize Your DVD Sermons for iPods/iPhones
Saturday, October 25, 2008
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I’ve had several people ask me how to transfer sermon DVD’s to the web and more frequently to mobile devices. For smaller churches it’s not a reality to stream your services live, let alone archive them on a computer. It takes expensive equipment, streaming server bandwidth and trained volunteer staff that most churches just cannot [...]
Continue reading...Create Awesome Flash Widgets
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Sprout Builder is a great tool that helps you easily build flash banners and widgets for your site. It’s free and you can build all kinds of cool things that interact with social platforms. This is a great idea to build MySpace banners for youth events that young people can embed on their sites. I [...]
Continue reading...Easily Manage Multiple Twitter Accounts
Thursday, October 23, 2008
It’s great that you have your church, youth group, and softball team on Twitter, but it’s difficult to update your personal account as well with so many logins. ChurchSmo.com came up with a great way to manage all of your Twitter accounts! Genius.
Continue reading...- Free Wordpress SMS plugin from Mister Nifty
- Win a free Flickr Pro account for Christmas!
- What is your favorite projection software?
- I need your input!
- Make your church site iPhone friendly
- Working With Photos
- My Media Fast
- Follow me on Twitter
- TXT Message your groups for free!
- Free Online Image Editing
- David Pallpert: would be interested in more open source apps and t...
- David Pallpert: EasiSlides is open source ... and like easy worshi...
- Brian Fegter: Anthony, It appears the correct syntax would be...
- Anthony: Hi... installation (in WP2.7) on a server based in...
- Alberto: Can I add more carriers for Spain? For example, or...
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Keep track of what the web is saying about your church or you personally by signing up for Google Alerts. Plug in some keyword searches to track. It’s easy! http://google.com/alerts/
If you record your services on CD chances are the audio is broken up into tracks. For those who don’t record digitally, this is a problem when trying to create a podcast. Now you can take all of those annoying little tracks and combine them into one with Merge MP3. Grab it here. (via Lifehacker)
If you use Wordpress, you will want to grab All In One Search Engine Optimization pack. This adds a tab below each page/post that allows you to create a unique title/description/keywords for each post entry. This is important stuff for search engines to rank your pages. Grab it here!
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