138 – WELSTech Road Trip: Liverpool, NY

This week the WELSTech Podcast Road Trip heads to Liverpool, NY to talk with Pastor Jeremiah Gumm about blogging.

Road trip:

(5:50) Pastoral Blogging – The WELSTech Road Trip makes a virtual stop in upstate New York where Martin and Sallie chat with Pastor Jeremiah Gumm from Cross of Christ.  Pastor Gumm, the blogger behind The Shepherd’s Study, shares thoughts on his 2+ years of blogging – how and why he started his blog, the mechanics of setting up and managing a blog, and the blessings (64,000 hits and counting) and connections blogging has given him.

• The Shepherd’s Study
• The Blogging Church: Sharing the Story of Your Church Through Blogs by Brian Bailey
• DailyBlogTips.com

Blog Administration “Dashboard” (Click the view full size)

Writing a New Blog Post Screen (Click to view full size)

The WELSTech Road Trip Tracker

Picks of the week:

• (30:22) Online calendars aplenty for school year planning and more:
  • 10 Quick Ways to Print Calendars Online
  • Free Academic Calendar Templates from Vertex
  • Google Calendar
    • 7 Reasons to use Google Calendar
    • BWTG: Google Calendar
• Picasa Web Albums

Community feedback:

• (39:16) Jason Schmidt from Gethsemane in Omaha, NE shared links via the WELSTech Diigo group:
  • A-Z Cool Tools – free e-book from Jeremy Renner
  • Zamzar – online file conversion
• Gail Potratz from Emanuel in New London, WI left us a voice mail with details on AT&T voice and data plan educator pricing
  • Include your voice in the next WELSTech Podcast.  Leave us a voice mail at 405-FOR-WELS (405-367-9357)
• Pastor Rob Guenther from Gethsemane in Raleigh, NC is using the Flashcard Touch app for iPod and iPhone to share Quizlet.com Catechism flash cards with his students
• David Schumann from Peace in Janesville, WI used Inkscape to convert bitmap images to scalable vector format
• Tom Hausman from Viterbo University in LaCrosse, WI shared a job posting for an Instructional Support and Design Specialist. Contact Martin for additional details.
• Perry Lund from Grace in Oskaloosa, IA commented on the recent student management system podcast interview

Coming up on WELSTech:

(52:18) Episode 139 – We’re on the road again, but this time to an unknown techie virtual destination.  Tune in to find out where we visit, and learn something new in the process. (Release date 07/07/10)

The featured artist:

(56:39) We close the podcast with the music of Michael Schroeder (www.michaelschroeder.com and on Facebook) – I Do Believe from his CD titled “The Way”

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