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Never Fear. Clover is here. Check ‘em out at…
http://www.cloversites.com/f/friendsofbrigada
See all the features they have now, as well as the new features they’ll have starting Apr. 28th in their “2.0″ service (which will be the same price, by the way; and current users will be upgraded automatically for free).
http://www.cloversites.com/greenhouse-updates
I personally have set up two different sites [...]

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A buddy of mine working in a very sensitive field would like to know. He’ll use his VPN to watch this page directly. He wrote, “Two of the websites we made that got about 250K hits were recently blocked so we’re looking into alternatives.” Would you be able to direct him to any Facebook apps [...]

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I’ve gone on record saying, “I don’t know of a single, solitary more effective web-authoring solution for the non-web-professional.” Just browse to…
http://www.cloversites.com/f/friendsofbrigada
and be sure to notice the upgrades they’ll do in April — to “Greenhouse 2.0.” Interestingly, once these new capabilities come online, some web-professionals might start using Clover as well, just because it’ll be [...]

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Now, Wycliffe Associates UK can help you format your long documents. Check them out at…
http://www.wycliffeassociates.org.uk
They can do scripture materials, dictionaries and even hymn books. You can email them at…

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Three United States Regional Conferences are scheduled for early 2010. ACMC conferences are great for folks who are interested in missions and want their churches to be more effective in reaching the world. The speakers and workshops are helpful and interesting. The issues addressed are issues you are dealing with in your church.  Check out:
http://www.acmc.org/conferences
to [...]

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I continue to be high on Clover. (Not the weed, mind you.) Check them out at…
http://www.cloversites.com/f/friendsofbrigada
They have a *bundle* of new features coming out. Check them out at…
http://www.cloversites.com/greenhouse-updates
A new media player (that will automatically play your videos), a new calendar, podcasting, font-sizing, linkable pictures, passworded pages, the ability to refer to each page with a [...]

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Yup… maybe it’s a silly name, but it’s a great service. For our March 6th eco-missions event (a Creation Care workshop), we’re using Wild Apricot to register the participants. Want to check it out? (Want to come? :-) ) See…
http://eh.wildapricot.org/
Need an online event-manager for your own church or agency? Find out more about their offerings… [...]

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We’re grateful this week for Carter (of Crossroads) and Michael (of Suzhou), both of whom signed up recently for Cloversites… which resulted in thank-you gifts from Cloversites to Brigada… to the tune of $100 each! Can you believe it? These two new friends become two new True Friends of Brigada, and they get a website [...]

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Cloversites makes it so easy. Check them out at…
http://www.cloversites.com/f/friendsofbrigada
See their feature list at…
http://www.cloversites.com/promo/Clover%20Features.pdf
You can post audio or video at the drop of a hat — imagine your workshops, classes, sermons, and presentations, all instantly available to your organization or church members. You’ll be able to start editing your website in minutes. Their customer service seems [...]

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Could Cloversites be essentially the perfect tool for developing your new web presence? Check them out at…
http://www.cloversites.com/f/friendsofbrigada
See their feature list at…
http://www.cloversites.com/promo/Clover%20Features.pdf
You can post audio (workshops, classes, sermons, presentations), and soon, video as well. You’ll be able to start your website practically immediately. Their customer service seems awesome… and the tools are extremely cool. Several of [...]

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‘Desperately Seeking Lodgers’ is a new short parable from Internet Evangelism Day, highlighting the need for church websites to be people-oriented. ‘”We need more lodgers,” said Maria Silversmith to her husband Milo one evening…’
http://www.internetevangelismday.com/church-evangelism.php

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For some time now, I’ve been fascinated by the effect of prayer on the body of Christ. Not only is God at work, answering the prayers of saints to raise up new workers, heal the sick, and mend hearts of the broken, but in addition to all that, prayer changes the hearts of the goers [...]

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Ministries without staff to build a website on their own or the budget to hire a design firm can leverage Web-Site-Now to get a template-based site up within hours. Perfect for starter sites or special events. Owner Michael is a PCA elder and an automation zealot for over 25 years.
Websites start at $249 and are [...]

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In just one year since its release, RefTagger has delivered over 100 million interactive Bible verses across more than 7,500 websites. These numbers indicate that more and more people are seeing the benefit of using RefTagger to point their site visitors to the text of the Bible. Developed by Logos Bible Software, RefTagger
http://www.reftagger.com/
is a free [...]

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Remember that discussion on blogging (Feb. 1, 2009, “For the Bloggers among us”) ? It’s turned into quite a stream of responses — from samples of great blogs to instructions on how to do it. Check it out at:
http://www.brigada.org/2009/02/2.html
Got an additional comment? You can even log on to share in total confidence, anonymously.
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Have you been following the development of the Kindle 2? Available from Amazon.com, just think of it as one of those electronic clipboards that Captain Picard used to access on Star Trek. It’s basically a dedicated reading machine. It’s as thin as a magazine, 10 ounces light, doesn’t require a computer, has a long-lasting battery [...]

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Have you noticed that Justin Long has moved his content from Momentum Magazine over to Strategic Network? (Thanks Wilma!) See the site at:
http://www.strategicnetwork.org/
The model here seems to be that there is much free content, while other content is shared as “premium content,” available only after sponsoring Strategic Network for $20/year. If you have comments on [...]

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Mission Data International (M-DAT) entered into an agreement with John McVay of Tulsa, Oklahoma, that brings AskAMissionary.com into M-DAT’s family of websites. Work is underway to overhaul the AskAMissionary.com website, which boasts 400-plus answers from Christian missionaries to hundreds of questions about being a missionary. Users can submit questions or answers. M-DAT plans to maintain [...]

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Consider
http://www.regonline.com/
They charge a tiny commission for everything, just about… and a flat rate of $3/donation if you want them to receive donations on your behalf. But if you haven’t set up a merchant account or a PayPal business account, it’s pretty competitive… and they give you great tools for building the web pages and forms.

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North Point Ministries is launching a bold leadership training effort in January for leaders around the world who are interested in learning principles of “creating churches for people who don’t like church.”DRIVE-IN, or Drive International, is a series of live web events, premiering on January 21, 2009 at 9am EST, where leaders from all over [...]

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Someone might say, “I didn’t know I could…”*** Search 14 years of Brigada back issues? One for each and every week since January 1995. Search for a “needle in a haystack.”*** Use the “In this Issue” as a table of contents with ‘hot links’ so you can jump to each item, then use your “Back” [...]

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I always felt like it was just a tad a conflict of interest when we buy security products from these companies that could be releasing them, you know? I mean… what sells Antivirus software? Antivirus *scares*. So finally… here’s a vendor-neutral site where you can pick up tips and news without bias.
http://www.securityfocus.com/
Check it out. Free.

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