Episode 046 – Nov 19 2008

This week the WELSTech discussion centers around using your web site for event promotion.  Brian Shaffer joins Martin and Sallie to announce enhancements to the FinalWeb system.

The discussion:

• Event promotion – Martin and Sallie share ideas for taking your congregation or school web site to the next level by moving beyond the basics – location & service times – to focus on the events that are happening, utilizing your web “channel” as an important component in your overall communication plan.
  • Sample event-based congregation web design – www.gccwired.com

The interview:

• New features on FinalWeb (18:14) –  Brian Shaffer, of FinalWeb.com, joins Martin and Sallie to announce some exciting enhancements to the FinalWeb system including higher storage capacity, calendar enhancements, and a custom tool for building templates.
  • Learn more about FinalWeb – www.wels.net/jump/webhosting

The tidbits:

• Picks of the week (37:19)
  • Understanding fair use in education
    • The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
    • A Fair(y) Use Tale
  • Online video conversion – www.vixy.net
• WELS.net feature (41:31)
  • Streams Seasonal Radio
  • ShopWELS.net – new relationship with Ricoh grants special pricing on copiers for WI participants
• Community feedback (44:10)
  • Last week’s interviewee, John Simonson from Good Shepherd in West Bend, WI, sent a follow-up link to a new resource from Google – SEO Starter Guide
  • Pastor Paul Jansen from Holy Scripture in Ft. Wayne, IN easily created an iGoogle gadget for sharing his sermon RSS feed.
• Coming up on WELSTech (46:55)
  • Episode 047 – Julie Duran, WELS Webmaster, joins us as we take an inside look at popular Content Management Systems (CMS) including WordPress, Joomla and Drupal

The featured artist:

• We close with music of WELS artist, Mike Westendorf (www.mikewestendorf.com) – Climb The Mountain from his CD with the same title (48:26)

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