I had a friend recommend this site, he says it is great for collaboration with others on their church's video team for developing content. It is a tool that let's you annotate and comment videos, like you would a Doc in Google.

Probably not a new website, but one I just found. This is part of the Worship Facilities magazine that I have gotten in mail for years. Looks like a resourful site having some great ideas. It is also compatible with Feedly if you want to throw it into your church tech feed.

I can agree with one of the don't use, we had our church with one of those before we moved to FinalWeb. We have been with FinalWeb for a few years and they have been slow to release responsive designs out. Their streaming service is affordable and solid. They do now have app options which I have seen but not explored.

I 100% agree with this article, they nailed it. This is what we have seen in our church over the last decade and I am seeing with other churches I am working on developing a plan too.

Haven't tested this out yet, but seems like a great feature. Looks like it is a free and paid service level thing. I was skeptical of Proclaim's price to value ratio, but the more we use it the more it seems to be worth the monthly/annual expense.

A good post on getting volunteers involved. Some good points of like telling people why the tasks are important, and to give them a chance to try before they commit. We do this with our AV Team, asking people to just come by on a Sunday to the back of church to watch what happens and to ask questions after.

An interesting take on the topic. Not really 11, many are about how hard it is to sing with the displays. I have noticed that in some congregations we visit. I post this not to endorse the 11, but so that those of us that may be advocating for such technology understand the level of despise that may come with the displays from some members.

Interesting blog, have not listened to it but they also have a podcast

An open source (?) platform for church management? A quick look and it appears to be pretty robust. Might be worth a check out.

I have to give credit to NBC morning news. They featured this app and I thought the education folks on WelsTech would be interested in this.

This new camera was released this summer. An all in one camera that does streaming (from what I can tell it would likely work with FinalWeb Streaming) and can be controlled all with the web interface. It also has the more tranditional pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) interface as well, if you already ahve that. Wire audio from a microphone or your sound system to it, connect it to your broadband and you would be up and going. Or, use the SDI video connection to go something something like Wirecast on your computer for more control. Refer to my presentation from WelsTechConf on video streaming, this new camera is one I am now reviewing to replace our first camera we installed this last year. We may shift then the camera that is our "primary front and center" off to the side more for the "B" roll view.

a great break down of do's and don'ts for using Facebook from a church perspective

Good article us technologists can reflect upon to ensure we are using our given talents for the right reasons.

If you are streaming in an HD format using the FinalWeb streaming service this is a page on how to update the player to be an HD player. There is also some other bonuses with the customer player including automatic start and a custom message when you are not broadcasting. This will be covered at the 2015 WelsTech conference in my Streaming Without a Canoe (Intermediate) session, sneak peak here.