Every week someone asks “can you get this announced today?” or “why isn’t my _______ in the announcements?”
Someone else asks “why do we take time to read the announcements?” and someone else wants to know “why didn’t I heard about ______?”
Some may think we are choosing favorites … and everyone thinks that “fair” is a biblical mandate! (NOT!)
How we connect to the people we want to get our message to is important to all of us, and it’s becoming harder and harder to break through all the noise and clutter in life.
Whatever you believe, we all know this; the way we communicate is changing, and it’s changing fast. This video shows how change is making it easier to reach a wider audience, but harder than ever to actually connect to it.
One of the questions I frequently hear from unconnected people in the church is “we need a church directory”. These are usually people that have been in church for a while, or been at another church where they had some form of printed directory. Read more…
I’ve been personally using some form of Gmail for testing purposes since it was first made available. And for the last year I’ve been using it for all my business and personal purposes using their Google Apps hosted solution – using email @ my own domain names. Here are some of the reasons why…
Google has a photo storage and sharing service called Picasa. You can upload a large number of images to it for free, and share those images with anyone you want.
One of its features is to create a sideshow with an album. Example here.
Another way of displaying them would be to embed the slideshow into your website like this -
So, how’d I do that? Easy…
Sign in to (or sign up for) your Google Account for Picasa Web Albums at http://picasaweb.google.com using your Google Account username and password.
Upload some images.
Click the My Photos link and select the album you’d like to make a slideshow.
Click Link to this album on the right panel.
A new Embed Slideshow option should appear. Clicking this option creates the code for a Flash slideshow from the album you’ve selected. When you update this album, your slideshow is automatically updated to show the latest photos. You can select from five photo sizes for your slideshow (up to 800 pixels) and you can also edit the resulting code for more flexibility.
To embed the slideshow, copy and paste the HTML code that’s shown into your blog or webpage.