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Friday, September 19th, 2008
Sherry and Baby Samuel
Both mother and son are healthy, thank God and thank you all for your prayers!
Update: Latest photos on flickr. Videos on Vimeo.
15 Comments » - Posted in General by Andrew Mitry
Friday, September 19th, 2008
Wifey in Labor
Sherry started labor this morning, latest updates on my twitter feed.
Prayers appreciated.
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
New in Google Apps: Google Video for education
Google released video hosting for the Premier edition yesterday, I was curious if the Education Edition was going to get any love, lo and behold I received this email today:
Greetings admins!
Video hosting and management have historically been cost-prohibitive and a challenge for IT departments and large organizations. That’s why we’re especially excited to let you [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Google by Andrew Mitry
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Gmail/Google Apps Tips, Tricks & Tweaks
We recently migrated our church staff from Exchange 2003 to Google Apps (link to howto from last years school migration), here are a few things I am sending out to help ease the transition.
Google Apps Help Center - Index to all of the help documentation for Google Apps services.
Browser
Firefox 3 seems to deliver the best [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Google by Andrew Mitry
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Links for 2008-07-24
Agile Ministry - Weekly Video Pick: Set Me Free
Jason Powell - VMware to release ESX3i for Free!
Protocol-level DNS Flaw via Techdirt. Make sure your DNS servers are patched (if you are using your ISP’s DNS servers, don’t just assume that you are ok). For a safe option, use OpenDNS or DNSResolvers.com
TechCrunch - Zimbra Releases Version [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Web/Tech by Andrew Mitry
Saturday, July 19th, 2008
Christian Media Resources
Looking for graphics, audio or visual resources to spice up your next series? This is my current list of sites that provide materials for ministry, some free and some may cost a bit. Let me know of any sites that I have I missed in the comments.
AngelHouse Media
Big Puddle Films
BluefishTV.com
Church Media Community
Church Media Design TV
CreativeMYK.com
Creative [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in AudioVisual by Andrew Mitry
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Tech for the Tour
We were on the road for a couple of weeks so I wanted to make sure we had our bases covered when it came to tech gear. Some of the churches we visited are savvy and have everything we could need, others not so much. This is what I ended up taking along:
Canon [...]
No Comments » - Posted in AudioVisual, Web/Tech by Andrew Mitry
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Coptic Orthodox Learn & Share Tour
Just started on a three week tour of Coptic churches throughout the Northeast, Canada and possibly California. Our hope is to be able to learn how the various churches are using their gifts to do ministry and to share with them what we have learned from our churches and along the tour. I’ll be traveling [...]
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
Links for 2008-06-20
Lots of great stuff this week…
Clover - websites for growing churches and ministries - via the Digital Sanctuary.
Free email marketing for non-profits from VerticalResponse, up to 10k/month, via Idealware.
Signal vs. Noise - “You have to treat your employees like customers”
Spiceworks 3.0 released, details here.
Tony Morgan - 25 Web Apps That Make My Life Easier
If you [...]
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
Using a ViewCast Osprey 100 with a Simple Flash Encoder
Our favorite card for video encoding is the ViewCast Osprey-100, we have been using it with Windows Media Encoder for years. Recently, we began testing live streaming with Ustream.TV which uses Adobe’s Flash technology for streaming. Their simple encoding client does not allow you to select which input on the Osprey-100 to use. To get [...]
