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Caleb

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Prezi = Presentation Win

I just discovered a brilliant online presentation tool called Prezi. It lets you create stunning presentations that go beyond the boring slide to slide Powerpoint experience we’ve grown accustom to.
Anyone game enough to use it in a sermon?
(Via TechCrunch)

Plainview Browser Released

Plainview, just released by The Barbarian Group, is a full-screen, WebKit based, browser designed specifically for presentations and kiosks. It looks very slick and could be very handy.

Live Via Skype – Part 1

A great thing Churches across the world do is support missionaries overseas. One way of supporting missionaries is by keeping congregations informed so they can pray effectively. Learn how to do this by interviewing missionaries, live, during your services using Skype in this 4 part series.

Safari 4 Beta

Today Apple released the Safari 4 Beta for public download.

With Microsoft’s IE8 almost upon us, along with Google’s Chrome and the Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox, it’s great to see us moving beyond the browser dark ages and competition heating up again.

With Safari 4, Apple is continuing to push browser technology ahead and is showing itself as a real contender at having the best browser available.

Read on for my impressions.

The Reason Your Church Must Twitter

Converting the Tech Pagans

Steve Kryger is Anglican Media Sydney’s new technology and ministry blogger. His first post on SydneyAnglicans.net highlights the reluctance of churches to apply technology and the need to change in this area. He also has a blog, called Communicate Jesus.

Lessons Learnt from Church Without Walls

A couple of weekends ago my church, St Pauls Anglican Menai, moved our Saturday service out of the church and into the local park. This was the first significant outdoor event I can remember us doing … In the process of putting it on we learnt a few valuable lessons.

Making the Peasant Princess

The 2nd post in the Making the Peasant Princess series is up on the Resurgence. This one includes some interesting notes on how the graphics and video intro were put together. Of particular interest to me is some detail on how they run their SMS Q&A.

Church Without Walls Follow-up

Church Without Walls on Saturday was a big success. It was a scorching hot day, with a strong gusty wind, but that didn’t stop our first foray into big outdoor events from going off without a hitch. We learnt a lot from putting it on, so I’ll be posting up a full article later. For [...]

The Illusion of Community

Church Marketing Sucks recently published an interesting series of posts called the illusion of community (Part 1). It’s a thought provoking look at the limitations of online communities in establishing genuine relationships. Part 2, Part 3, Part 4