3 Cool Tech Gadgets to Grow Your Church
April 21st, 2008 Categories: Technology for Pastors
Oh, you know you like tech gadgets, don’t you? Come on. Just a little? That’s what I thought.
If you’re the kind of Pastor who might find yourself strolling down the street listening to Mp3s on your Iphone, I have some cool stuff that just might help you build your church:
1) Meebo: A wicked cool tech gadget that allows you to install a chat application right in the sidebar of your Christian blog. Here’s the description from meebo.com:
Meebo is a website for instant messaging from absolutely anywhere. Whether you’re at home, on campus, at work, or traveling foreign lands, hop over to www.meebo.com on any computer to access all of your buddies (on AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, Google Talk, ICQ, and Jabber) and chat with them, no downloads or installs required, for free!
Here’s the church building power: You don’t have to wait for people to message you. Meebo actually gives you a real time readout of how many visitors are on your site, and allows you to ping them through the wicked cool sidebar widget. So, write a hot article to lure the lost, and then engage them with the Gospel all from the comfort of our favorite arm chair.
2) Social Bookmarking: It’s not a tech gadget, per se, but it will increase your readership so that you can utilize cool gadgets like meebo to increase your church. Sites like del.icio.us and reddit provide unlimited opportunities to put your awesome headlines in front of readers who just might be looking for a relationship with the Lord. If you are overwhelmed by the idea of social bookmarking, of if you haven’t advanced much beyond checking your email, never fear. We can help.
3) Podcasting: None of this is really cutting-edge technology, but a podcast allows you to build an online audience of subscribers. Then, you simply record your next message from the pulpit, upload it to your server, and push it out to the internet. Since your preaching is so anointed, it’s only a matter of time before these word nerds start flowing through your church doors. Here’s a good example of a cool podcast.
Ahhh….now you’ve got your tech fix for the day. This blogging stuff tends to grow on you, doesn’t it?
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