297 – eBook Ch 4: Events and Announcements

This week’s WELSTech features a discussion of sharing events and announcements on your web site plus photography picks, news on upcoming events (and an iPad giveaway) and some great listener contributions.

The discussion:

Share the news – Martin and Sallie continue the WELSTech 2013 Summer series, Church & School Website Content, with some helpful tips on sharing news on you web site. More and more members and school parents are consuming small bits of news in a more immediate time frame than in the past. Listen for ideas on breaking up your print newsletter into smaller stories throughout the month and establishing a Communication Committee to coordinate and facilitate news reporting.

• Series resource page – Includes links to the e-Book and sample sites
• Recent interviewee, Corissa Nelson, describes her congregation Communication Committee (19:50)

Picks of the week:

• (16:44) Photo Hatchback AW Camera Backpack by Lowepro
• Manfrotto 410 Junior Geared Tripod Head

Of interest:

• (23:04) WELSTech turns 300 in just 3 weeks! Join us live at 5 p.m. Central on July 30 from the floor of Synod Convention at Martin Luther College – Live streamed via Hangouts on Air
• WELSTech Camp is coming up on September 14 at Martin Luther College in New Ulm, MN. Register and attend the free event to be in the drawings for a Mimio Teach Bar and 16GB iPad!!

Community feedback:

• (26:40) Big Bananagrams
• Screenleap – Free Screen Sharing and Online Meeting Software
• 5 Tips for Making a High Quality Video for Your Website
• Apple iOS 7 for Education
• iWorks is coming to the cloud
• Touch typing alternatives for education – Typing Web and Type-fu

Coming up on WELSTech:

(34:04) Episode 298 – Live streaming video is the topic of next week’s chapter in the continuing summer WELSTech eBook. (Release date – 07/16/13)

The featured artist:

(34:50) We close with the music of WELS musician and staff minister Benhur Khamrang (Reverbnation) – Our Creed

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