Many churches and non-profit organizations are slow to adopt Web 2.0 technologies. And often such organizations run without paid IT staff. Let's face it, exploring Web 2.0 apps isn't on the top of every Children's Ministries Director "to do" list for the week.
Even for the technologically elite, keeping pace with every new release can be daunting. Yet these very applications can provide tons of horsepower and amazing (and free) services and support for your office computers. Can you live without 'em? Sure. But why should you have to?
Here's what you need to know:
Web 1.0 = web as an information source
Web 2.0 = web as a participatory medium
More importantly, Here's a painless way to sample some Web 2.0 power for your church staff. Simple. One step at a time. Add one new application a week (or month) and spend the rest of the week (or month) just browsing around, experimenting with it's features. Here are a handful of popular well-known options:
- Skype - free phone service
- Gmail - free email service
- YouTube - free video clips
- iTunes - free podcasting
- Flickr - free photo sharing
- Google Analytics - free website metrics
- You Version - free online interactive Bible
- Linked In - free professional networking
- Facebook - free social networking
- My Church - free Christian social networking
And there are many more. In fact, which ones should I add for the next ten series?
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