http://myjourneyhisglory.com God, Family, Work, Church, Life in this Universe Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:06:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 en http://myjourneyhisglory.com/2008/10/20/phonevite/ http://myjourneyhisglory.com/2008/10/20/phonevite/#comments Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:56:37 +0000 rodney http://myjourneyhisglory.com/?p=62 I heard about this website shortly after bringing up the idea of a phonetree system at our church council.  The phonetree system seemed a bit expensive for us at the time, so I went and explored my options.  I saw lots of web services that seemed to do the trick, but all of them required a credit card or the purchase of minutes.  Finally I came across Phonvite.com.  This web service was awesome.  For those of you who don’t know I like FREE.  Phonevite knows how to do FREE very well.  Phonevite allows you to make calls to 25 people completely free of charge.  For small churches or youth groups this may be all that is needed.  Phonevite does add very brief advertisement to the end of each recording that currently just advertises for phonevite, the paid service does not contain these ads.  Phone also gives you real time reporting of who does and doesn’t answer and how long the person listens to the recording.  This is all included in the free version.  The paid version allows you to request RSVP and messages back to the phonevite system.  This truly is a phenominal system.  You simply have to see it for yourself.  Quite possibly the best phone recording system out there.  Try it out and let me know what you think.

]]> http://myjourneyhisglory.com/2008/10/20/phonevite/feed/ http://myjourneyhisglory.com/2008/10/09/church-tech-test-post/ http://myjourneyhisglory.com/2008/10/09/church-tech-test-post/#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:20:56 +0000 rodney http://localhost/?p=7 Media Shout, Easy Worship, Power Point?  How do you decide?  All of the above are pricey and some might consider them to be overkill.  What do you think?  A few weeks ago I ran across a new program called OpenLP.  This free, yes I said FREE, project is a new open source program which does the job of the big boys, for no cost at all.  This being said, the project does accept donations to help keep it running.  All that aside this is really a great program.  If you’ve ever tried Easy Worship the interface is very similar.  If you are used to the Media Shout experience then there will be some learning curve involved.  You can’t beat it for the price.  It took me two SUnday mornings to get it up and running and then we were good to go.  I’m the only one running right now, but I have the current worship leader and a few of my teens who appear to like how th eprogram works out for our church.  Enough of what I have to say check it out for yourself at www.openlp.org.

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