135 – Cash or Credit?

This is book discussion week on the WELSTech Podcast as we wrap up our look at Shane Hipps’ The Hidden Power of Electronic Culture.

The discussion:

Wrapping Up – Martin and Sallie complete their discussion of Shane Hipps’ book, The Hidden Power of Electronic Culture: How Media Shapes Faith, the Gospel, and Church, looking at chapter 8, “Worship in Electronic Culture”.

News in tech:

• (16:35) iPhone 4 and AT&T data rate changes
• Skype to Skype over 3G
• MindMeister for Google Wave
  • Try it out on the public WELSTech Wave – search for … with: public “WELSTech Ideas Mind Map”

Picks of the week:

• (23:20) Square – Accept credit cards with your mobile device
• iWisoft – free video converter
• Android
  • Droid Incredible
  • WELS app for Droid

WELS.net feature:

(33:50) “Like” WELS on Facebook – facebook.com/welslutherans – and you may win a $20 gift card to Northwestern Publishing House (NPH).  There will be one giveaway per week through August!

Of interest:

• (35:00) FinalWeb Training in Milwaukee, WI and New Ulm, MN
  • FinalWeb for Teachers – July 19 – bit.ly/fw4teachers
  • FinalWeb for Dummies – July 20-22- bit.ly/fw4dummies
• Martin is teaching “Mind Like Water: The Art of Productivity” at Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary Summer Quarter – July 5-9

Community feedback:

• (39:12) Martin made use of the WELSTech Diigo group to share some cool links –
  • A new online ministry book – Netcasters: Using the Internet to Make Fishers of Men (Internet Evangelism Day review)
  • Zoom H1 audio recorder
  • Mind Manager – the perfect tonic for curly hair
• Pastor Rob Guenther from Gethsemane in Raleigh, NC wrote looking for an RSS to e-mail solution
  • Feed My Inbox
  • Tabbloid
• Pastor Ben Kratz from Our Savior in Birmingham, AL likes GQueues.com for task list management with your Google account

Coming up on WELSTech:

(48:04) Episode 136 – The WELSTech summer 2010 Road Trip gets underway.  Tune in to find out where we stop first. (Release date 06/16/10)

The featured artist:

(49:14) We close the podcast with the music of Kevin Loersch – When Love is Found from his CD titled “Abide With Me”

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