Tech Tuesday: open thread

It's Tuesday again and that means Tech Tuesday! 

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Last week's Tech Tuesday was particularly lively, as many readers chimed in with great tips for how to get an audio podcast up and running.

-- DJ Chuang, Director of Digital Initiatives & more, Leadership Network

It's Tuesday again and that means Tech Tuesday! 

An open thread means you can post a question by adding a comment in the comment thread. Tech Tuesdays are a friendly place where non-techies can ask any question. Add a comment below to ask your question, or answer one.

Sometimes we'll have an open thread; sometimes we'll have a featured question, To have your tech question featured in a future Tech Tuesday, email them in to me, DJ Chuang.

Last week's Tech Tuesday was particularly lively, as many readers chimed in with great tips for how to get an audio podcast up and running.

-- DJ Chuang, Director of Digital Initiatives & more, Leadership Network

Comments

[Adrienne]

I can't find ANYONE doing this online. Am I the first to think of it?
Our new church web page has a widget from LibraryThing that shows the books that our staff love. (See www.pacificchurch.com) We can include an Amazon Associates ID for the widget, so anyone who clicks through and purchases a book will create a small profit for the Associate.
I'd like to have the proceeds go directly to a charity we support: www.acresoflove.org. They are willing to get an Associates ID for us to add to our widget. We wouldn't have to worry about the checks and sending them on, and we would be encouraging others to support the organization.
Is there some downside I'm not seeing? The church won't get the tax writeoff, but I suspect we can live with that.

[djchuang]

Adrienne, that is a great idea!! For churches that don't have an on-site bookstore (or even if they do), it's very much a great supplement to a church's ministry to recommend books, and a widget like that looks very useful! Thanks for sharing it!

No, I don't know of any other churches right off hand that uses the LibraryThing widget on their church website; I do know of churches that list book recommendations and use their own Amazon Associates ID.

I did find this, another way to use LibraryThing -- Mars Hill Church in Seattle has a group that lists the books they read, at
http://www.librarything.com/groups/marshillchurchseattl