Brigada

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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