I just got this email and thought I would pass it along to you all...

Hi Kevin,

I just discovered Church 2.0, and I can see that you’re passionate about the use of technology for praise and worship. The NAB Show (http://nabshow.com) is a client of our communications firm, and I want to tell you about two exhibits that you and your readers may be interested in at this year’s show, coming up April 10-15 in Las Vegas.

The Technologies for Worship Pavilion offers comprehensive training for house of worship staff and technical volunteers and is the focal point for all things related to worship technology at the NAB Show. In addition, you may be interested in Destination Broadband - the newest broadband-centric exhibit at the 2010 NAB Show. It will be featuring technologies like online video platforms, streaming video, mobile video distribution, and much more.

Technologies for Worship Schedule: http://ow.ly/1fCqd
Destination Broadband: http://ow.ly/14hgA

The reason I'm reaching out to you is because I have a special registration code for you to pass along to your readers, giving them access to the show – a $150 value - for FREE. This special pass includes the exhibit floor, the Opening Keynote and State of the Industry Address, Info Sessions, Content Theater, Destination Broadband Theater and Exhibits. All you and your readers need to do is visit http://ow.ly/13TL9 to redeem or register at http://nabshow.com/register with the code A913.

Thanks, Kevin, and please let me know how I can help your coverage of the 2010 NAB Show on Church 2.0.   Don't forget to check out the official show website at http://www.nabshow.com for more information, news, and to register!

Thank you!

Jason Rouse
NAB Show Team / Tuvel Communications

My friend, Tony Steward, contacted me to let me know about This Christmas presented by LifeChurch.tv.





LifeChurch.tv will be hosting a whole bunch of Christmas worship experiences at Church Online this year. Church Online’s Christmas experiences are perfect for people who may be traveling, people who have friends or family who do not attend church, and anyone else who would like to join an online community for Christmas worship. 


The Digerati team is excited about reaching people who aren’t planning on attending church this holiday season, and they’re committed to providing a welcoming environment in which they can experience the message of Christ’s love.  They have 12 different online experiences scheduled on Wed, Thurs, and Friday! Christmas day!


Go here to get more information and download free Christmas music!


MERRY CHRISTMAS from Church 2.0 and the LifeChurch Digerati Team!

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!

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!

Just kidding.  But Granger Community Church (GCC) is offering their Exposed Conference online to watch for free.  If you missed the event you should check it out.  Also check out the film festival.  Very cool.

I just got an email from the YouVersion team
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This October, YouVersion Live will give you a brand new way to interact with live events like church services, conferences, and more. Want to know how you’ll be able to use it?

Join us for a live webinar: Wednesday, September 23 at 2:00-3:00 PM CDT at http://www.youversion.com/live

LifeChurch.tv Pastor, Innovation Leader Bobby Gruenewald and Digerati Pastor Terry Storch will guide you through YouVersion Live and show you how this free new tool can work in your environment.

• What will it look like to use this in a church service or other live experience?
• As a communicator, how can I use it to help people get more out of my message?
• How will people find a live experience?
• What will it take to set up an experience ahead of time?
• How likely is it that people around me will be able to use it?

Get answers to these questions and have a chance to ask your own during this free webinar. To join us, just go to http://www.youversion.com/live on Wednesday, September 23 at 2:00 CDT. Hope to see you there!

The YouVersion team
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So mark it on your calendars!

YouVersion Live looks amazing. Check out this ChurchCrunch Exclusive of YouVersion Live with Tony Steward.

YouVersion Live Exclusive from John on Vimeo.

Own the Mix is an awesome site for your sound guys/audio team. If you are a church leader and value excellence in all of your ministries you need to get this.

Imagine the best in audio giving your team tutorial and tips of how to better your worship ministry. Imagine having access to a group of the best audio techs on the plant at anytime. It does cost $20/mo or $200/yr, but it would be worth it for your team until they have developed.

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
  

Streamzy is a free search engine, play-list creator, and prayer to stream full length audio clips from all of your favorite artist. Out of curiosity I did a search for songs by Hillsong/Hillsong United and found nearly every song I could ever want to listen to from them.

Practically: You or you Worship Leader could use Streamzy to create and share a play-list for your worship team. And the best part - it's legal!

The guys at ChurchyMedia are knocking the ball out of the park when it comes to their video podcast called Short Takes.

Below I embedded a Short Take on how worship teams can use MuxTape

Keep up the good work!

For all those Churches that are looking for an upgrade from those power point presentations. Meet ProPresenter3.

ProPresenter is a lyric presentation system for churches and ministries. Created by Brad Weston while he was working on the "Production Team" for North Point Community Church, and it's the software their use for the Catalyst Conference.

I have a copy of the original release and version 3 is completely redesigned with some really cool features. You now have the ability to save Playlist from the worship service just like you would save an itunes playlist. There's "Dynamic Scripture Look Up", so any time your pastor strays from the notes you can look up the scripture and have it on screen in seconds. You can import all those old power point presentations, and it even supports keynote. There's view options, foregrounds, backgrounds, transitions, and you can even post announcements and let parents know when their child needs them in the nursery. These guys thought of everything!

Unfortunately it's not free, but they are pretty loose with their licensing agreements. And you can download a trial before you buy.

Check out all of the Video Tours Heres

TAGLINE/PURPOSE: a relevant resource to inspire and influence church leaders

AUDIO/VIDEO: Audio only

CONTENT: Great stuff

FREQUENCY: Approximately once every three months

DURATION: Average 35 minutes per episode

CRAP or QUALITY: Quality

NERD FACTOR: Newbie to Tech-savvy

NICHE: Worship Leader, A/V Director and Lead Pastors

SPONSORED: Easy Worship

Creative Synergy Podcast: FOUR out of FIVE Stars. Great episode on Copyright in the Church. Multi-site campus, worship planning/preparation and church marketing are other topics covered. My only reservation from giving this five stars is having to wait so long between episodes. This is a top notch podcast.

To subscribe to this podcast go to www.creativesynergypodcast.com find recommended podcasts in the right column of C2.0 - the blog site and click on Creative Synergy.

VIDEO/AUDIO: Both

CONTENT: Very helpful/practical videos, solid audio episodes.

FREQUENCY: Weekly

DURATION: Average for Video Episodes - 5minutes.
Average for Audio Episodes 25 minutes.

CRAP or QUALITY: High Audio and Video.

NERD FACTOR: Novice - Tech Savvy

NITCH: Anyone using [or who wants to use] Audio and Video in their Church service or gathering. Those in Worship, Media, A/V directors.

SPONSORED: Collide Magazine, Sermon Player

Churchy Media: FOUR 1/2 out of FIVE Stars. To subscribe to their podcast go to their website [here] or find recommended podcasts in the right column of C2.0 - the blog site and click on Churchy Media.

Next Podcast to be reviewed: Jesus Geek

None one likes re-runs:
Don't just podcast sermons,
create fresh new content

Reasons Why?

• Fresh- unless your nationally known speaker or someone missed the worship service they aren't going to subscribe to your podcast to hear you talk for an hour. By creating new content you will give them incentive to subscribe.
• Discipleship - make a short podcasts to further the sermon or call them to action. Or use podcast to distribute small group/house church videos for discussion.
  
• Ministries - make short podcasts highlighting ministries and/or testimonies.
• Events - promo events, concerts, do interviews, etc.
• Free Music - have a musicians [in your church] give their songs away.

Tip: Get some young creative types to help you brainstorm ideas.

[Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3]
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In what ways are you and your ministry reThinking how to use podcasts?

Summer projects are smacking around the Church 2.0 team - for a glimpse of how Kez is occupying his summer, just look at his blog! For me, it's just family stuff and my day job. So, the outcome has been a bit of a slow down on the blog here. Also, in case you missed it, the RSS feed for the last post was a little flaky, so you'll want to make sure you check out Remember the Milk.

Getting on to the point...

Planning Center Online is this really cool tool for planning worship services. Every now and again I use a tool and find myself thinking that the person/team behind this really knows the situation for which is was built. This is one such tool.

I'm not sure how to succinctly summarize this tool's features except to say that it does everything you'd hope that it would (sequence songs, and other elements of the service) as well as store mp3's, lyrics and other relevant attachments (paid version), schedule and email personnel according to their roles, track and report song usage, import song data from CCLI, and transpose chord charts (also on the paid version) - all on an online interface you can share with everyone involved in the planning and implementation of your church's worship services.

The basic version is free and very functional (this is what I'm presently using). Paid versions add some features and the ability to expand with more personnel and multiple ministries.

The Planning Center Team has done an above-average job with tutorials and walk-throughs of the app's features. Their "11-Minute Overview" explains it all pretty well in about, well, 11 minutes.

These are a list of my favorites media websites for worship gatherings. Not necessarily the best sites, just my favorite. We, Church2.0, do not recieve kick-backs from these companies although we would gladly take them. Kidding!

Worship House Media is possibly the best site to start looking for videos because WHM offers videos from other media companies such as Floodgate, Igniter, Eleven72, and more.

Sermon Spice has some thought provoking stuff. If you are a fan of baseing your preaching/teachings off of movies that are popular, SS is the place for you. Currently the are giving away Spider Man 3 videos for free.

Highway Video is probably the most famous name in the media for churches scene. Not my favorite, but it has some good stuff.

QUICK TIP: Often videos sites give a video or two away for free. ChurchVideoIdeas.com does a great job of keeping up on who's giving out videos for free. I use his blog to keep an eye out for free videos.