WELSTech » telecommunication

This week Martin and Sallie are joined by ShopWELS administrator Mark Robinson and discuss cost saving ideas in the area of telecommunications.

E-mail retention and privacy - In response to a listener question, Martin and Sallie share ideas and resources to assist in making e-mail retention and data privacy policy decisions.
- Records Management for Local Churches
- ELCA policies on Active Records Management

Telecommunication - Mark Robinson, WELS member and administrator of the ShopWELS program, joins Martin and Sallie to discuss cost saving ideas for congregations and schools in the area of telecommunications, both telephone and Internet.
- www.shopwels.net
- Contact Mark - 262-546-0088 or mark.robinson@dviconsulting.com

This week’s picks
- SnagIt - www.techsmith.com
- Microsoft Word Mail Merge - Online training for Word 2003
WELS.net feature
- Gospel of John online Bible study from WhatAboutJesus.com - www.wels.net/jump/johnbiblestudy
Happenings
- WELS calendar of events - www.wels.net/jump/wc2008
Community feedback
- del.icio.us user rafaust shared a link via the welstech tag to Doodle (www.doodle.ch), a tool for creating free online polls. One way to use it is for narrowing down a common meeting time for a group of people.
- Pastor James Wilcox of Rapid City, SD wrote to share info on a free Virtual Private Network (VPN) solution he’s using called Hamachi.
- Listener Karl Henselin wrote with a follow-up to our discussion last week about Logos Bible study software. He shared links to two other cost-effective Bible programs, E-sword and BibleGateway.com.