063 – PDFs and Potlucks

This week on WELSTech the discussion centers around PDFs, and Martin and Sallie share resources for creating and editing documents in this universal format.

The discussion:

• All Things PDF – Martin and Sallie serve a potluck of PDF goodness covering the basics of how PDFs became the document sharing standard, a multitude of tools for creating and editing PDFs, and a variety of ministry and personal uses for the format.  They even dish up a PDF of this episode’s mind mapped notes!
  • Adobe Acrobat 9 (creator) – www.adobe.com/products/acrobat
    • Check for academic pricing – www.academicsuperstore.com
  • Read PDFs
    • Adobe reader – www.adobe.com
    • Foxit reader – www.foxitsoftware.com
    • Gmail users take advantage of the integrated reader
    • Mac users have long enjoyed the Preview app
  • Create PDFs – Read Gizmo’s review
    • www.cutepdf.com
    • www.pdfill.com
    • www.primopdf.com
  • Web-based PDF conversion
    • www.html-pdf-converter.com
    • www.pdfonline.com
    • www.expresspdf.com
    • www.pdftoword.com
    • www.media-convert.com
  • Optimize PDFs
    • www.nicepdf.com

The tidbits:

• Picks of the week (25:00)
  • Online color schemes – www.colorschemer.com/online.html
  • Update status in multiple social networks – www.ping.fm
• WELS.net feature (30:27)
  • Weekly military podcast devotions – streams.wels.net/podcasts?series=military-devotions
• Community feedback (31:45)
  • David Savatski from WELS World Missions Promotions shared ministry uses for Flickr
  • We received a follow up comment from last week’s interviewee, Lori Aschbrenner of Beautiful Savior in Evertte, WA, with a caution for folks to obtain proper permission before posting photos of people on their church or school web site
  • From the WELSTech Listserve
    • Joshua Schoeneck, Director of Technology at Kettle Morrain Lutheran HS, posted that the full version of Listserve Lite by L-soft is free to schools through their NetPals program – netpals.lsoft.com/netpals.html
    • Jason Petoskey, Network Administrator for Holy Trinity in Wyoming, MI, is using FinalWeb e-mail distribution lists to send e-mail devotions in his congregation
    • LJ shared a link to Christian Worship hymnal resources at www.lutheranmusic.com
  • David Schumann from Peace in Janesville, WI is looking for a worship primer.  Do you have one to share?
  • Joshua Schoeneck e-mailed another comment regarding copyright concerns with “broadcast” of Pandora internet radio in the church narthex
• Coming up on WELSTech (42:40)
  • Episode 064 – Do you have a PLN?  Learn about Personal Learning Networks during our discussion with Gail Potratz.  Also learn about Lenovo classroom technology during our interview with Patty Ullsperger.

The featured artist:

• This week we close with the music of WELS artists Kevin Loersche and Cindy Bauder – My Savior Jesus from Kevin’s CD titled Abide With Me (41:15)

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