Episode 041 – Oct 15 2008
October 15th, 2008This week on WELSTech Martin and Sallie discuss considerations for starting an electronic newsletter. The interview section of the show focuses on the synod’s own electronic newsletter, Together.
Listen now or download Episode 041 (57:44)
The discussion:
- Electronic newsletters - Most congregations and schools rely heavily on monthly and weekly newsletters to facilitate communications with members and school families. Today Martin and Sallie take a look at various options for going electronic with your newsletter communication.
- NewsletterWritingTips.com
- PDF creation tools
- Open source desktop publishing – Scribus.net
- Check out Episode 026 for tips on mass e-mail
The interview:
Together (20:10) - Joel Hochmuth and Alicia Neumann from WELS Communication Services join the discussion to share information on the synod’s bi-weekly electronic newsletter, Together.
- Read Together online – together.wels.net
- Subscribe to Together for e-mail delivery – together.wels.net/subscribe
- Get Together in PDF format for inclusion in your church bulletin
The tidbits:
- Picks of the week (37:45)
- Online drawing tool – www.dabbleboard.com
- Kuler by Adobe – kuler.adobe.com
- WELS.net feature (43:03)
- Mission Connection online archive
- Of interest (44:21)
- We have a winner! Listen as we play additional voice mail contest entries from our listeners and choose a winner of the recent WELSTech contest. Enjoy shopping at cafepress.com/welstech!
- Community feedback (51:07)
- Jeff Clark wrote to share information on hardware configurations – a possible discussion topic for a future WELSTech episode
- Cindy Krueger from Shepherd of the Hills in Lansing, MI shared a link to an article by Dan Lohrmann titled “How Safe is Cloud Computing?“
- Following up on last week’s interview, we heard from Andy Theimer that there are 8 new “inWELS” members on LinkedIn, and we also heard from one of those new members, Danny Smith
- Coming up on WELSTech (54:05)
- Episode 042 – Redesign – Why and how to redesign your web site plus the inside scoop on the upcoming WELS.net redesign
The featured artist:
- We close with music of WELS pianist, Dawn Gehlhar – Precious Lord Take My Hand from her Inspirations CD (55:07)
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October 15th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Episode 42 should be what we need. We are looking at expanding our church website. We are seriously looking at Final Web. But, has anyone discussed Drupal, Joomla! or other open-source content management systems? Our webmaster is considering those for the features and future update, but does not have lots of time to configure and maintain them.