Our friends at Projector Superstore were kind enough to write up a quick guideline post for when your church is ready to buy a new Projector. Take it away guys:

When it comes to the topic of projectors and presentations in churches, we all might remember an awkward situation due to a problem with the equipment. Maybe it was the time you had that amazing stock photo you decided to show in the middle of your sermon. It looked great on your office computer, but when you the PowerPoint slide came up during service, it was virtually unreadable. Or maybe it was the time you had a guest speaker who showed up minutes before service, and their laptop resolution was incompatible with your outdated projector. Continue reading “How to Select a Projector for Your Church” »

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Thanksgiving is coming up, and already churches are planning for their Thanksgiving services. Whether it’s a harvest rally, fall picnic, trunk-or-treat, or just a good ol’ time, churches are all about the fall season. We at Sharefaith are, too. Here are some tips for your Thanksgiving media, a few Thanksgiving service ideas, that will help you have the most amazing Thanksgiving service yet.

Continue reading “How to Have an Amazing Thanksgiving Church Service: Four Tips for Success” »

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Sharefaith’s highly recommended church worship software plugin, ExaltNow just got better. ExaltNow version 1.5 released just yesterday, delivering a fresh dose of media power and cost-savings for thousands of other churches around the world.

Continue reading “ExaltNow 1.5: The All New Revolutionary Worship Software Plugin For PowerPoint” »

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There are a ton of ways to use church videos during your services. Here are some of the most common ways to do so.

Continue reading “The Five Best Ways to Use Church Videos” »

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The phrase “church media” is so ubiquitous, vague, and broad. There may be a lot that you don’t know, want to know, and don’t exactly understand about church media. Here are ten of the little-understood, seldom-thought-about, and perhaps important-to-know facts about church media. Consider your own church’s media use in light of these ten features.
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If you open a bulletin on a Mac with Microsoft, you may not see the image. This is due to a default setting where the image is set to transparent, which means while the image is technically there, you just can’t see it (which can be confusing).

To resolve this you just need to change the transparency. Here’s how:

Continue reading “How to Change the Transparency of Bulletin Images on a Mac” »

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We know that some of our backgrounds have both light and dark colors on them and wanted to give some pointers on what to do to make sure your text will show up against all of it. Continue reading “How to Apply Text Over Light/Dark Backgrounds in PowerPoint” »

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Media. That one word entails a world of sensations, experiences, visions, apparitions, stuffed email inboxes, exabytes (yeah, that’s a word) of information, old cell phones, new smartphones, trillions of dollars, mesmerizing messages, absolute bewilderment—a seismic cultural shift. It’s all about media. In today’s info-torrential and media-saturated world, don’t think that the church has gone unchanged. It’s changed. In a big way.

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Here at Sharefaith.com, we get a lot of clients asking for help using text in PowerPoint. So here’s a few tips that are great for all to know and be mindful of when you’re making your next PowerPoint sermon! Continue reading “Having issues with text in PowerPoint? We have a few tips for you, bold and underlined!” »

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MARCH 10 UPDATE: Facebook is disabling FBML on March 11. If you want to use FBML for your church Facebook page, you must install FBML on or before March 10.

Since so many churches are using Facebook these days, we want to provide you with tips for making your church Facebook page even better. You don’t need to be a programmer or a graphic designer to enhance your Facebook page. All you have to do is follow instructions. In the following article, we’ll show you step-by-step guie to creating a Facebook landing page.
Continue reading “How to Make a Landing Page for Your Church Facebook Fan Page” »

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