Episode 007 – Feb 20 2008

This week Martin and Sallie continue their discussion on the efficient church office and also talk with Pastor Aaron Frey about Logos Bible software.

The discussion:

• The efficient church office – Martin and Sallie discuss cost-effective ways to make your church office more efficient including possibilities for a virtual office, affordable software solutions and image options in this follow-up to last week’s discussion.
  • Virtual office –
    • Gmail – gmail.google.com
    • Add your own domain name to Gmail accounts
    • Google Docs – docs.google.com
    • Read more about VPNs – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vpn
  • Software solutions –
    • Open Office – www.openoffice.org
    • CutePDF – www.cutepdf.com
  • Image editing and royalty free images –
    • The GIMP – www.gimp.org
    • Picnik – www.picnik.com
    • iStockPhoto.com – www.istockphoto.com
    • ClipArt.com – www.clipart.com
    • ChurchArt.com – www.churchart.com
    • WELS Inspire image gallery – www.wels.net/jump/inspire
  • Software, supply and equipment discounts –
    • ShopWELS – www.shopwels.net

The interview:

• Logos – Today Martin and Sallie talk with Pastor Aaron Frey, Emanuel Lutheran Church and School, Tawas City, MI, about Logos Bible software and the new People’s Bible series on CD for Logos from Northwestern Publishing House
  • Logos – www.logos.com
  • People’s Bible for Logos from NPH
  • Logos for Lutherans Yahoo group

The tidbits:

• This week’s picks
  • Doodle 4 Google – www.google.com/doodle4google
  • ActiveWords – www.activewords.com
• WELS.net feature
  • LivingBold teen site – www.livingbold.net
• Happenings
  • Leadership Conference sponsored by Parish Schools – June 16-19 – www.wels.net/jump/leaderconf
• Community feedback
  • Listener Dave Heup shared a follow up to the Scratch programming language pick of the week from Episode 003 –
    Dave recommends the Alice programming language (www.alice.org) developed by Carnegie Mellon University as a more challenging language for students who master Scratch

The featured artist:

• WELS contemporary Christian musician Michael Schroeder singing The One from his CD Fuel For The Soul – www.michaelschroeder.com

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