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Free Wordpress SMS plugin from Mister Nifty
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...Create Awesome Flash Widgets
23. October 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...Make your church site iPhone friendly
20. October 2008
I found this great little kit to help web developers recreate their sites into iPhone format. The templates are already set up. All you have to do is copy/paste your content code and build simple menu structures. Then, set up a separate directory or subdmain on your server for the alternate site. I would use [...]
Continue reading...Google’s New Browser
4. September 2008
My initial reaction to Google Chrome (Google’s new web browser) was not so good. I’m a Mac user and I always take issue with Google shunning the Mac community with their software developments in Picasa and now with Chrome. With that personal pet peeve aside, here are a few things I see that are positive. [...]
Continue reading...Convert Powerpoints to Flash
1. July 2008
Have you ever wanted to post a Powerpoint presentation on the web? Now you can for free with iSpring! It’s a great little application that allows you to convert what was once a proprietary file to be used only in presentation software into a web friendly Flash file that can be embedded on a website. [...]
Continue reading...Create e-books for free!
12. February 2008
Issuu is a great tool I just found to publish virtually any type of static material on the web. Issuu has a neato interface that lets you read the content like a book. Say you want to publish an article on your website, all you have to do is upload your pdf, doc, [...]
Continue reading...Embed your docs in your website!
8. October 2007
I stumbled across this great new service from Adobe - Adobe Share Beta. I assume Adobe is allowing this to be free while in beta stage and eventually will charge for the service once they get all the bugs worked out of it. Basically, you can upload your documents/files and share them with [...]
Continue reading...Free mass mailing software.
7. October 2007
After researching dozens of list servers for emailing our entire congregation, I found Pommo. It’s a wonderfully free software that takes a bit of tech experience to get running. You can import all your contacts, add whatever information to each field, create check boxes for different lists, filter the lists down to groups, [...]
Continue reading...Use Leafletter to create free mini websites!
6. October 2007
This is an exciting tool that I’ve been looking at for a while. You don’t have to be a tech genius to create a mini website. I have created a simple tutorial using the Leafletter mini site to show you how it works. You can use it for advertisements on your [...]
Continue reading...Google Checkout is free for non-profits!
3. October 2007
This is something your organization will really benefit from if you aren’t yet processing donations online. Google has been so generous to offer 501c3 status organizations free donation processing until 2009. There are no monthly fees or setup fees. It’s an entire year of free processing. I just love free [...]
Continue reading...Sell stuff with your logo on your website!
21. September 2007
If you’ve wanted to sell your own shirts and other clothing items on your website featuring your own logo and branding, now you can, FOR FREE! Open up your own e-shirt shop online. It takes a few minutes and you can even use your own logo for the site to make it look [...]
Continue reading...Easy forms for your website!
16. August 2007
I am very impressed with this tool that allows anyone to build a form and integrate it on their website. Form Logix lets you code your forms (advanced users) or simply store your data on their server. This is a good solution for churches who don’t know how to create forms or databases. Simply drag-and-drop, [...]
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Random Goodness 
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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13. December 2008
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