ChurchRelevance.com has a great article and video link from the The Church Law Group outlining some great guidelines on enjoying a Super Bowl watch party at your church while respecting copyright law.

For those of you who've ever made an attempt at trying to understand copyright law, you will find these guidelines very reasonable and fair.

Enjoy the game!

P.S. The video also includes a great, understandable overview of what copyright and fair use are and what they affect, particularly relating to church use.

Amazon is giving away MP3s for Christmas in what they are calling 25 Days of Free. They are giving away Christmas songs from some of your favorite artists. One per day, so you need to keep checking back periodically and download them for FREE!

Also don't forget about Worship House Media's 12 Days of Christmas.

If you don't know I am a huge fan of Worship House Media. Not only do they save me hours of time surfing for the best video for our worship gatherings by offering many different producers works, they give a lot way for FREE!

Your not going to want to miss 12 Days of Christmas.

On the 1st day of Christmas Worship House Media gave to me Fearfully Made
...and a partridge in a pair tree!

ChurchMediaDesign.tv is a great site to learn more on how to use and create media for church.

Their newest episode #89 featured a documentary that Hillsong Television made about “Church News”. Church News is a 3-minute segment in their weekend services where announcements are made or ads as they call them.  There area a lot of good tips on filming and producing video elements in this show along with the resources, technology, and programs they used to produce this seqment of their weekend services.

It's worth checking out! www.churchmediadesign.tv

TruthCasting is a website that will allow you to host your sermon video's for free.  Now they are offering you a customized iPhone app that will show up on iTunes for a small fee.  Check it out.

It's basically your one stop media shop for children's ministry.

Check it out!

Igniter Media is running a promo code to save 25% off any order.  The code is 'SITEPROMO' and it's good until October 15th.

DreamHost is offering FREE web hosting for Non-profits.  Yes Church, this means you!

Click here to see how you sign-up.

The culture and industries are making the shift to social media.

Has your church?

FreeCountdowns.net is a great site for FREE Video Countdowns.

Well it's not Blockbuster, but there will be blockbuster movies online for free through EpixHD. Many of you may use hulu for TV shows. Epix will be the Hulu of movies.

Let's see what comes of Epix when it finally goes live.

You've got to check this out...
Gurus User-group from Church Tech Talk on Vimeo.

Hope to see you in Louisville at Southeast!

With the economic crunch at we are in churches need to save money. See how we made a green screen for less than $10.


Tim then edited the footage on an very old version of Sony Vegas Video Editing and we came up with this...


Also the spinning 'Plugged IN' box was made in Google Sketch Up which is Free.

Want some free swag? Check out crazychurch.com

Three churches came together with two beliefs

1. Church stuff out to be the best stuff.
2. Churches ought to share that stuff.

My kind of people!

Need to setup a shared folder online to store large files [videos, music, photos, etc.]?

Check out MediaFire.



Unreal what UNLIMITED features they are offering for FREE!

I appreciate and value any device that does mundane tasks automatically. That's why I am hyped about the Eye-Fi SD Card. With a simple setup process these cards will automatically load your photos to almost any photo hosting site with out hooking up a cable.

Check out how simple it is...

Just a reminder that the free videos start today over at Worship House Media

Daily Freebie Promo - "You Can't Say That" from Worship House Media on Vimeo.

FYI - Dale's beard is sweet! It makes me feel like he's Santa!

Chanukah has 7 days of gifts, thanks to Worship House Media we get 20 days.

Starting Dec 1st Worship House Media is giving away a video each week day!

Daily Freebie Promo - "They'll Never Know" from Worship House Media on Vimeo.

Here are some great stock photo resources. Some are FREE!

• reelworship.com
  
  
• istockphoto.com
  
  
• morguefile.com
  
  
• pixelperfectdigital.com
  
  
• freefoto.com
  
  
• reelworship.com
  
  
• imageafter.com
  
  
• freestockphotos.com
  
  
• fotosearch.com
  
  
• freeimages.co.uk
  
  
• bigfoto.com
  

One of the regulars in my RSS reader, web tech site ReadWriteWeb, has a series underway on Religion and Web Technology. To date they've looked at the work of LifeChurch.tv and the Shalom Hartman Institute. Based on parts 1 and 2, it looks to be an even-handed critique of the way these varied religious organizations of are harnessing the power of the web to reach people.

And don't miss the run-up posting - particularly the comic: Spirituality and Technology.