Templates from Chuck Green

http://www.ideabook.com/ Source of fantastic template sets from the incredible designer, Chuck Green, for PageMaker, Quark, and InDesign. Each CD set, for each program, costs $59. This website also has lots of great resources and training for church communicators.

Volunteer Resources, Energize

http://www.energizeinc.com A secular site, but some great advice for anyone who works with volunteers. Lots of articles, books, resources.

Volunteers: Church Volunteer Central

http://www.churchvolunteercentral.com/ Sponsored by Group, this site offers a yearly membership for which you get a large number of resources. You can freely check it out.

Software training: Lynda

http://www.lynda.com/ To learn how to use your software in step-by-step lessons that you can access on line and take whenever you want. You can do a few lessons at a time (they are only a few minutes each) or the entire series for a software title at one time. You can repeat what you want, [...]

Screen capture & training software: Camtasia

http://www.camtasia.com/ Though in some ways it is a screen capture program in that it does capture everything you do on the screen, Camtasia is so much more than a still screen capture like Snagit above. Camtasia captures not only what you are doing on the screen, but your voice and what you are saying as [...]

Training from Yvon Prehn

My ministry provides a number of resources for training church communicators: My main website: http://www.effectivechurchcom.com/ is the main website that contains many free, downloadable articles on strategy and creating church communications. My seminars: I do day long seminars all over North America. The title of my primary seminar for 2008/2009 is “How to Create Effective [...]

Screen Capture: Camtasia

Camtasia http://www.camtasia.com/ Camtasia is the program a lot of trainers use to create online training programs; it is what I use to create the little videos that I do to show you how to do various things and that are posted on www.youtube.com/yvonprehn. It captures what is going on the screen as well as the [...]