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A video comparison of PicMonkey, Canva, and Snappa

4 November, 2018 By Yvon Prehn 2 Comments

Comparison of PicMonkey, Canva, and Snappa
All three are great programs, this lets you see the strengths of each one.

 

After the recent overview/tutorial of Snappa, an Effective Church Communications member asked me how it compared to Canva and PicMonkey. That was such a good question and as I thought about it, I realized it wasn't something I could answer in a quick email and that the answer would be useful to many of you.

I like all three programs and use them all, but they are different in what they do best. Below I did a video review of all three. It is short and subjective and far from an exhaustive overview of any of them, but I trust it will help you see the differences. Below the video is a summary of the cost of each and a few additional comments.

Remember Effective Church Communications does not take any advertising or participate in any affiliate programs. You can CLICK HERE if you want to read more of our concerns about affiliate programs. On Pic Monkey (the only one I bothered to look up) they give affiliates 30% of what you pay. I would much rather they had a lower rate than participating in a system that can distort reviews of the product. But regardless of what others do, we will not be part of the affiliate kudzu that infects the web. You can read our reviews knowing they have no secondary agenda. [Read more...]

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Filed Under: Design, Graphics, Images, Image editing Tagged With: Canva review, Image editing programs, PicMonkey review, Snappa Review

For the heart of church communicators: Bible 805, a podcast about history and the Bible

1 November, 2018 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Bible 805, podcast and commentary
A Bible podcast and commentary from Yvon Prehn with an emphasis on church history and how it helps us understand the Bible.

Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks, Jesus told us. It's valid to continue that thought that out of what's in our hearts is what will come out in our communications.

If our hearts are filled with God and his words, that will be reflected in our church communications.

It doesn't mean that we will only write devotionals and Bible lessons—though that might be part of it. It means that the tone, the attitude, the images and examples we use will be reflective of our Lord. The best way for that to happen is to so saturate your mind and heart with God's Word that his way of looking at life and reaching out to people will become second nature to you.

There is only one way to get that perspective and that is to spend time in God's Word and we now have a new and exciting way to do it through PODCASTS!

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Filed Under: Bible 805 Podcast Tagged With: Bible encouragement, Bible history and commentary, Bible podcast

Where to listen to the Effective Church Communications Podcast: available on iTunes; Spotify, Stitcher, Public Radio, and many more !

1 November, 2018 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Effective Church Com Podcast

Here are the places you can listen to the Effective Church Communications Podcast. Be sure to subscribe to your favorite so you don't miss any!

Anchor: https://anchor.fm/yvon-prehn

Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/a-better-way-for-church-communicators-podcast-by-yvon-prehn/id1438370124?mt=2&uo=4

Google Podcasts: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy83MjAzODAwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4POKSjAkI2kS1Mx71c3Smq

Breaker: https://www.breaker.audio/a-better-way-for-church-communicators-podcast-by-yvon-prehn

Castbox: https://castbox.fm/channel/id1454283

Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1438370124/a-better-way-for-church-communicators-podcast-by-yvon-prehn

Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/6jxH

RadioPublic: https://radiopublic.com/a-better-way-for-church-communica-6NaAdl

Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/anchor-podcasts/a-better-way-for-church-communicators-podcast-by-yvon-prehn

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Filed Under: PODCAST Tagged With: church communication podcast, church communication tips, Yvon Prehn Podcast for church communicators

And now podcasts—one more way to share encouragement, training, good news, our faith!

1 November, 2018 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Podcasts by Yvon Prehn
One of the oldest ways of communicating--with our voices is now one of the newest in Podcasts!

Who would have imagined the oldest way to communicate—with our voice—would be the latest, greatest thing in communications?

Even more, who would have imagined that one of the oldest technologies—radio—would be the basis for it?

But here we are with podcasts, a booming area of communications that literally anyone can do.

Effective Church Communications and podcasts

If you've been part of Effective Church Communications for some time, you know I've done a number of podcasts. I did a moderate amount of radio in the past, love the format and have done a lot of teaching and speaking so it seemed like a natural tool.

As with many things, the technology of it was very scary and that put me off for some time until I realized how simple it could be (this is an EXTREME simplification and I hope to do some videos to explain it more) with free Audacity and Lame software, plus an inexpensive headset microphone from Target (that's how I create mine).

Creating them was easy, what to do next was hard. I've tried various systems, all time-consuming and though the storage and distribution systems didn't cost a lot, it is a monthly cost. But the biggest challenge was HOW to distribute them? Yes, there are all sorts of ways to do that, but my brain was stretched enough just getting the podcast done and available.

Anchor changed everything

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Filed Under: Bible 805 Podcast, Misc. Advice and Articles Tagged With: Church Communicators Podcast, intro to podcasting, Podcast on the Bible, Podcasts, Yvon Prehn Podcasts

Snappa: Review and How-tos of a GREAT program to create social media graphics

23 October, 2018 By Yvon Prehn 2 Comments

Snappa is a great program for the fastest, easiest ways to make social media and online graphics! I've used it for some time (in fact, all the graphics you see in the sidebars of this website were created with it), but I like to use something for a while before I recommend it because I'm sure that many of you have had the same frustration I have where someone does this raving recommendation of a program and with great excitement you go to it and after paying for it realize it is a piece of junk and not only that you signed up for something that keeps wanting you to upgrade or buy more junk from them. That won't happen here as we don't take any advertising or affiliate payments (often the motivation for rave reviews).

Below is my little overview of it.

Here are some additional videos done about Snappa, just click the link below them to go to them.

A video comparison of PicMonkey, Canva, and Snappa
https://wp.me/pDky9-8il

Snappa: The easiest way to create social media verses
https://wp.me/pDky9-8mw

Snappa: How to create a side-bar ad
https://wp.me/pDky9-8mB

 

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Filed Under: Design, Social Media Tagged With: church social media, Snappa how to, Snappa Review, Social media image creation

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