TED
a resource in Leadership | Useful Stuff
TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an annual conference that brings together the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes.
There’s a great archive of the talks on the site from a wide variety of people, including Billy Graham! You can download many of the talks (as mp4 movie files).
Added 17th July 2008 | 2 Comments | Permalink | Trackback
Covenant Eyes
a resource in Church Tools | Tech | Useful Stuff
Covenant Eyes is a Christian based software company that provides (pay for) accountability and filtering software for computers (filtering Windows only).
The accountability software is designed for use where internet pornography is a problem as it monitors a person’s internet use and emails a report of all websites visited for Accountability Partners to view. Accountability Partners are trusted individuals selected by the member to review reports and discuss how the Internet is used.
The filtering software can be used in the home, Churches, schools or anywhere else (!) to selectively filter and block sites or portions of sites.
You can also use the two services together for maximum screening and reporting.
(2 votes, average: 5 out of 5)Added 14th July 2008 | No Comments Yet | Permalink | Trackback
FoxFilter
a resource in Church Tools | Tech | Useful Stuff
Foxfilter is a great, free add-on for the brilliant Firefox web browser that allows you to custom filter access to sites and content on each individual computer.
The filter uses a combination of keyword filtering and ‘black lists’ to sort the good from the bad. There’s also a ‘white list’ where administators can set a list of ‘always safe’ sites that other wise might get filtered. Admins can also change the keywords and black lists.
The filter settings are also password protected for extra safety.
http://inspiredeffect.com/FoxFilter
Added 14th July 2008 | No Comments Yet | Permalink | Trackback
The Cyber Hynmal
a resource in Media | Useful Stuff
Ever wondered the history of a hynm or needed to be reminded of it’s tune or words? The Cyber Hynmal is a great place to start.
There are thousands of Christian hymns & Gospel songs from many denominations; lyrics, MIDI files, scores, pictures, history & more. It’s the biggest site of its kind!
Added 7th July 2008 | No Comments Yet | Permalink | Trackback
FeedBurner
a resource in Tech | Useful Stuff
FeedBurner is a great way of making the feed(s) for your site more friendly. We use FeedBurner to burn the two feeds on ministrypool (’news resources feed’ and ‘blog/news feed’ see in the sidebar!).
But what’s feed?! Well it’s a way of getting some of the information (primarily news and things that get added/updated) on your site ‘out’ in a different way. FeedBurner (which is owned by Google) have a very good guide to all things feed here.
(1 votes, average: 4 out of 5)Added 27th June 2008 | No Comments Yet | Permalink | Trackback
podpress
a resource in Media | Sermons | Tech | Useful Stuff
Podpress is a wordpress plugin for podcasting with wordpress. It’s pretty easy to use and is free!
It’s the plugin of choice for many podcasters who use wordpress.
http://www.mightyseek.com/podpress
Snopes.com
a resource in Useful Stuff
Snopes is ‘the site’ for finding out about urban hoaxes. Althought not Christian, ist’s very useful for check the validity of many of the ’round robin’ emails and appeals that are either rather out of date or just not true!
http://www.snopes.com/info/whatsnew.rss
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5)Added 27th June 2008 | No Comments Yet | Permalink | Trackback