393 – Church Office Productivity

The productive church office is a blessing to ministry efforts and the topic of this week’s WELSTech Podcast. Tune in for office apps, keyboard shortcuts, breaking WELSTech news, tips for ministering to millennials and bonus boosts to your Psychic RAM!!

The interview & discussion:

Psychic RAM – Pastor Emile Burges from Trinity in Caledonia, WI talks with Sallie regarding his upcoming presentations at WELSTech Conference on Evernote and MailChimp. The conversation continues as Martin and Sallie share more favorite church office productivity tools.

• Volunteer Spot
• Church 360
• Forms tools:
• • Google Forms
  • Jot Form
  • Wu-Foo
• Google Calendar
  • Google Calendar Improvements
  • How to Insert Google Calendar Into Marketing Email
  • Lecitonary on Google Calendar
  • Bonus WELSTech Goodness on Google Calendar
  • PrintMyCal
• Image sources:
  • Pixabay
  • OpenClipArt.org
• Cloud computing:
  • Office 365 for Nonprofits Comparison – Get Office 365
  • Google Drive vs OneDrive

WELS now:

• We hope you’ll attend WELSTech Conference 2015, July 9 – 11 in Waukesha, WI
  • Register by June 1
  • Enter to win a $25 Amazon Gift Card
  • Logos Pre-Conference Workshop registration
• Tune in to the live stream of Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary graduation and call day events

Picks of the week:

• What’s New in Google Apps newsletter archive
• Favorite keyboard shortcuts:
  • Control + N – New window
  • Control + T – New tab
  • Control + Shift + N – Open an incognito window
  • Control + F4 – Close app/window

Community feedback:

• ClassTools Breaking News Generator – Check out this WELSTech news!
• Seesaw – The Learning Journal for iOS
• Google for Nonprofits

Ministry resources:

Bread for Beggars

• NBC’s “AD” review and reaction
• Ministering to Millennials series

Coming up on WELSTech:

Episode 394 – Live from the CMM … Martin and Sallie are together to tour the new WELS studio. Watch and participate on 05/26/15 @ 4 pm Central – welstechlive.wels.net

Featured videos:

This week we’ve added a MailChimp tutorial video to the WELSTech Product Demos playlist on YouTube

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