If your in “church world” you should know about the 8BIT Network.  They have some great sites and free resources for media/technology/etc.  Love some of these fonts they posted. Go here and download them.

If for some reason you have never heard of Newspring or Unleash and you haven’t seen/heard Perry Noble preach, then I wanted to open your eyes to some awesomeness. Below you’ll find the two main sessions from Unleash. Also go to the website for downloadable (and FREE) pdf’s from the breakout sessions! ENJOY! Leave me a comment and let me know what you think.

I am excited about this new technology.  Imagine creating one for a youth service where students can instantly ask their questions from their cell phones. Go ahead add a message of your own. I have to approve it first, but send a txt message to 25622 start with @timlem then enter your message.

I love Planning Center Online.  It Rocks.  It runs my ministry.  The awesome tech support I have received has been amazing.  I could go on and on but you have to check it out.  They just made some more updates today. Read about it here.  My favorite is text messaging! AH YEAH!

Here is what we use it for:

• Manage Band
• Manage Tech people
• Manage all volunteers for before/after and during our services
• Manage all Lifegroup leaders
  • Provide training materials as a downloadable attachment
• Plan services
• Communication between Adult and Student Ministries
• Communication to all our volunteers

I encourage you to watch this video to get a small taste of what PCO can do.

Introducing Planning Center Online from Aaron Stewart on Vimeo.

**UPDATE**  Here is another example of Twitters Awesomeness!

I twitter. I love it. You would love it. Follow me on twitter here.

I get asked all the time, “What’s the point of twitter?”  Here we go. 4 reasons

1.  Friends/Family – Since I have recently moved across the country twitter is a great way for me to stay in touch with my friends and family from Virginia and my new friends here in Texas.  Also every day twitter sends all my “twit’s” for the day to my blog.  My family and friends can see what I have been up to.
2. Archiving my life – I have 3 kids.  I wish I had twitter when my first 2 were younger.  I can twitter things my kids do and will be able to back and search to see what day they started walking, first time they flew, etc.  Any milestones in their lives.  Also I can know what day I went to that conference, special event, etc.
3. Ministry Resource – I follow a lot of people on twitter.  They each have different jobs but they give me ideas that I can use in ministry.  See list below to start following some of my followers.
4. Ministry Tool – A lot of people in my ministry use twitter. It’s just another way to connect to people if I can’t get a hold of them.

Recommended twitterers:

• Tech/Video/Media related
  •  AVCLUB
  • terrystorch
  • blankenship
  • WorshipTechie
  • EBOWES
  • motionhouse
  • AVCLUBBREAKOUT
  • Mstanley
• Youth Ministry
  • DOUGFIELDS
  • JOSHUAGRIFFIN
  • BCooP
  • DanielHarper
  • outsideallday
  • daveyblackburn
  • Jakerutenbar
  • kurtjohnson
• Worship/Music
  • mcdzl
  • DanielHarper
  • lincolnbrewster
  • davidcrowder
• Ministry – General
  • perrynoble
  • Rickwarren
  • JimmieDavidson
  • scotthodge
  • KEMMEYER
  • MarkBatterson
  • TPMORGAN
  • MarkMatlock
  • Newspring
  • TimAStevens

To follow these people txt “follow TimAStevens” or whichever of the usernames from above you want to follow.  *_OR_* go to twitter.com and search for their username and if you have a twitter account, click Follow button.

Twitter doesn’t make any sense until you start using it.  Go create an account and then start following some people. Leave comments below of some of the people you follow that people should know about.d

I know I have said this before, but you have to check out youversion.com. It is already a great bible program. But it will be amazing once people start using it fully.

I’m excited. I just read that the beta release of You Version is a week away.  I was hoping to get in under the alpha release, but it didn’t happen.  Anyways check out the blog to see what all you can do with youversion.  I can’t wait.

I am working on a poster to put up at ETSU.

Thought I should share these resources:

• http://www.youworkforthem.com/vector.php
• http://www.creativemyk.com/
• iStockphoto – not free, but still worth mentioning

If you know of any more good sites like these, free or not, leave a comment with the link please!