1. INNOVATIONS ON A BUDGET You can have BOTH! Dawn Wolf

2. Does your Church office look like this?

3. The Challenges of Church Technology Typically older hardware and software IT support is minimal Security issues are increasing Religious … sites were found to have triple the average # of [virus / malware] threats than adult/pornographic sites. —Symantec, April 2012 Data privacy is critical

4. Security Innovations on a Budget OpenDNS –web content filter (non profit pricing is available and negotiable) OpenDNS FREE for home use! (I use this at home!) Microsoft Security Essentials-free antivirus Microsoft Security Essentials Malwarebytes-free malware program Malwarebytes

5. More Security Innovations 95% of PC infections could be prevented IF the proper updates and patches were applied! Secunia PSI-Free software inspector Secunia Web of Trust-browser based security tool Web of Trust

6. Backups! Two kinds of people in this world Those who backup and those who wished they had!

7. Backups ParishSoft FTP Backups

8. I’m infected! Tools you can use yourself Housecall.trendmicro.com –online scanner Housecall.trendmicro.com Microsoft Standalone System Sweeper Bootable CD 32 and 64 bit versions ComboFix –use with care, powerful AVG Rescue CD

9. Lost, Deleted or Duplicate files? Recuva-recover deleted files Recuva Anti twin- duplicate searching Anti twin- DoubleKiller-duplicate searching DoubleKiller

10. Cleaners! New pc Pc decrapifier-get rid of bloatware Pc decrapifier Ninite-install software all at once Ninite Slow older pc? Ccleaner-cleans out temp files, registry cleaner Ccleaner Defraggler

11. Got a big project or event coming up? Manage and collaborate with your committee and staff using do.com Create a list of tasks and prioritize Assign tasks to others Share documents Make notes Mobile apps

12. Now available to religious organizations for free Email-can have your own domain or keep existing one Calendar-shared and private calendars, can publish to the web (parish calendar of events) Docs-collaborate and share with staff securely Drive-5 gb free ($ for space)

13. Sites-internal or public facing webpages Vault-email archiving and e-discovery (annual fee per user) Voice-one number for multiple phones (land line or cell), online voicemail, free long distance calls, inexpensive international calls Translate-Make your website instantly available in 60+ languages

14. Video/Web Conferencing Great idea! Google+ Hangouts (up to 10 people) Chat face to face Host Virtual Meetings or Events Broadcast your event live! Record your meeting or event for later viewing Mobile app for android or iPhone Anymeeting – free video, audio, recording, screen sharing (up to 200 attendees per meeting)

15. Parishioner Engagement LPI’s We Gather-free, email, surveys Flocknote –email, text, voice, facebook, twitter, surveys ($13-$96 monthly)

16. What’s on your network? Spiceworks –free Network inventory Printers Desktops Laptops Servers UPS Network monitoring offline notices low toner critical updates needed Help desk software –manage requests

17. Save on printing “Shrink to fit” OR “Scale to paper size” –check the box Century Gothic or Times New Roman fonts - uses much less ink Off brand ink – fine for everything but high quality photo printing HP Smart Web Printing (IE) - only print what you want for web pages (Aardvark for Firefox browser) Windows 7 Snipping Tool! Save it as a pdf – Word 2007 and 2010 or dopdf or PDF Creator or CutePDF

18. Remote to Your PC Logmein.com Free 3 hoops to jump through for security

19. Electronic Surveys Survey Monkey –free for basic account Survey Monkey

20. Email Newsletters Constant Contact -good tool, non profit pricing Vertical Response -free for non profits-up to 10,000 emails per month Vertical Response Mail Chimp -free for non profits with lists under 2,000 Mail Chimp

21. Innovations for Digital Discipleship on a budget! 21 Finding Fair Use and Copyright Free Images and Photos Increasingly, authors and producers and choosing to label their works with Creative Commons licenses. These licenses allow people to reuse an author’s work under certain conditions. In general attribution is required.

22. Innovations for Digital Discipleship on a budget! 22 Google Image Advanced Search Yahoo Image Advanced Search Finding Fair Use and Copyright Free Images and Photos Use the advanced settings to refine your results to copyright free.

23. Innovations for Digital Discipleship on a budget! 23 Finding Fair Use and Copyright Free Images and Photos Increasingly, authors and producers and choosing to label their works with Creative Commons licenses. These licenses allow people to reuse an an author’s work under certain conditions. In general attribution is required. The Wikimedia Commons is packed with images and other works that are labeled for reuse. Check the licensing statement for each image before reusing. Some images require attribution while others are in the public domain and do not require attribution. http://commons.wikimedia.org/

24. Innovations for Digital Discipleship on a budget! 24 Finding Fair Use and Copyright Free Images and Photos Collection contains thousands of images. Use images for free in academic or commercial presentations. Searched by: subject category, image size, color, or rating. Http://www.morguefile.com/

25. Innovations for Digital Discipleship on a budget! 25 Finding Fair Use and Copyright Free Images and Photos Flickr is a hugely popular photo sharing website. It can be a good source of images, but not everyone labels their images for reuse. Use the advanced settings to find images labeled for reuse. Http://www.flickr.com/ Flickr Advanced Search

26. Innovations for Digital Discipleship on a budget! 26 Finding Fair Use and Copyright Free Images and Photos PodSafe Audio provides music tracks for use in podcasts, videos, and other multimedia projects. http://www.podcastfaq.com/resources/podsafe-audio/

27. Innovations for Digital Discipleship on a budget! 27 Finding Fair Use and Copyright Free Images and Photos The Free Sound Project is comprised of sounds (not music) that can be reused with attribution. In order to download sounds from The Free Sound Project you do need to register for an account. Http://www.freesound.org/

28. Innovations for Digital Discipleship on a budget! 28 Finding Fair Use and Copyright Free Music and Sound The Free Music Archive provides free, high-quality, music in a wide range of genres. The content on Free Music Archive is used under various creative commons licenses. Anyone can download music from FMA for use in podcasts and videos. http://freemusicarchive.org/

29. Innovations for Digital Discipleship on a budget! Finding Free Sound Editors http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac You can use Audacity to: Record live audio. Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs. Edit MP3, or WAV and other sound files. Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together.

30. Innovations for Digital Discipleship on a budget! Finding Free Sound Editors Audioboo Mobile & web platform that effortlessly allows you to record and share audio http://audioboo.fm/

31. Innovations for Digital Discipleship on a budget! 31 Finding Free Sound Editors Myna is a free web-based audio track mixer created by Aviary. Using Myna you can mix together up to ten tracks to create your own audio files. http://aviary.com/tools/myna

32. Innovations for Digital Discipleship on a budget! 32 Finding Fair Use and Copyright Free Music and Sound Sound Bible is a resource for finding and downloading free sound clips, sound effects, and sound bites. All of the sounds on Sound Bible are either public domain or labeled with a Creative Commons license. You can find sounds for use in podcasts, videos, and slideshows. http://soundbible.com/

33. Innovations for Digital Discipleship on a budget! Creating Digital Stories beyond Slides Quickly create a video using still images, music, video clips, and text. If you can make a slideshow presentation, you can make a video using either… Windows Movie Maker (MS Office) Animoto http://animoto.com/

34. Innovations for Digital Discipleship on a budget! 34 Creating Digital Stories beyond Slides Masher Masher is a great, free, tool for creating video mash-ups. offers a large collection of video clips from the BBC's Motion Gallery and Rip Curl video. There is a large music library, an effects library, and a good selection of video player skins. Http://masher.com

35. Innovations for Digital Discipleship on a budget! 35 Inexpensive and “Almost Free” Images and Sound iStock Photo Credits based on type and size of file downloading. www.istockphoto.com/ www.istockphoto.com/ Royalty Free Music music tracks that can be reused in numerous ways. charges the general public for their downloads. http://www.stockmusic.net/ http://www.stockmusic.net/

36. Innovations for Digital Discipleship on a budget! 36 Other Open Source and Free Microblogging - Create an account on Twitter.Twitter Follow other catechetical and pastoral leaders. Check out Brad West's article Go Tweet It On The Mountain Top.Tweet out information about your parish.Go Tweet It On The Mountain Top Explore use of twitter for conferences or meetings for sharing ideas. Blogging - Use Google Blogger, Edublogs or WordPress to create you blog. Use Microsoft Word to publish to your blog on your parish websiteGoogle BloggerEdublogsWordPress Learning Management System – Moodle - A free, open-source PHP web application for producing modular internet-based courses.Moodle

37. Resources Catholic Technology Magazine Catholic Techtalk Komando.com TechRepublic richardbyrne @freetech4teachers.com