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Volume 16, Number 4		April, 2010

Contents: Opinion: Church Web Sites and Evangelism News: Photocopiers pose a threat to privacy. Recalls Coming Events New or Changed Entries in the Church Related Software Index Legal Stuff: Mine! All Mine!!!
Opinion: Church Web Sites and Evangelism
I have a confession to make: I read the news from the Internet Evangelism Day and other sources, but I have to admit that I don't normally pay as much attention as I should. However, this blog entry by Don Walley on OurChurch.com brought me up short. He asks: Is your Church website a resource for the Holy Spirit to use to fulfill The Great Commission? Could He lead a lost soul to your site knowing they'll come face to face with their need for the Savior and His promises of Eternal Life? Up until now, I've tended to tune out a lot of the advice about making a web site more effective as an evangelism tool, because the CAMsoc sites aren't about evangelism, they're aimed at helping Christians to be more effective in ministry. But, having said that, I imagine that you, my gentle readers, have some kind of input into your home church's web site, as do I. You may not be the person responsible for it, but you probably have at least the option of providing some input. So the question is: if people can't find a clear and understandable presentation of the gospel on their closest church's web site, where should they look for one? One time-honoured way of reaching out to the unchurched is through acts of service, and one church has put a page on their web site, telling about a uniquely geeky form of outreach: The Gadget Guys at Grace.
News:
"We Have it in Writing" Department I have long been warning people about the need to keep data confidential, and use tools like encryption and data wiping to make sure that sensitive material like donor records, counselling notes, or even membership lists and the dates and times of meetings aren't left lying around for crooks to exploit. (And I'm not talking about that deacon with the shifty eyes, either. It's depressing how often news stories crop up about churches being broken into, and having their computers stolen.) Now, it turns out that there's another threat to people's privacy lurking in the church office: the photocopier. Digital copiers come with a hard drive, which stores every copy ever made. So when you dispose of the church copier, make sure that drive gets yanked. And make sure that you're not photocopying anything sensitive at the local library or corner grocery. (Javed, Noor, "High-tech copy machines a gold mine for data thieves." TheStar.com. March 18th, 2010. To subscribe: www.thestar.com/rssfeeds Published by The Toronto Star. Keteyian, Armen, "Digital Photocopiers Loaded With Secrets." CBS News. April 15th, 2010. To subscribe: www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/01/12/utility/main666437.shtml Published by CBS Interactive Inc.)
Recalls:

Apple	Apple Headphones with Remote, included with iPod Shuffle (3^rd generation), with serial numbers from xx909xxxxxx to xx952xxxxxx, and xx001xxxxxx to xx004xxxxxx, manufactured between February 2009 and February 2010.	Headphones may fail under certain conditions.
Coming Events:
May 25-28, 2010. Ideas to Impact Conference. Galt House, Louisville, KY, USA. www.ideastoimpact.com Presented by ACS Technologies. June 16-18, 2010. International Shelby Conference. Omni Hotel, Atlanta, GA, USA. isc.shelbyinc.com Presented by Shelby System, Inc. June 18-22, 2010. ICCM: International Conference on Computing and Mission. Taylor University, Upland, IN, USA. www.iccm.org September 24-25, 2010. Accordance Users Conference. Dallas, TX, USA. www.accordancebible.com/Accordance-Users-Conference October 12-14, 2010. ICCM Australia: International Conference on Computing and Mission. Melbourne, Australia. Accordance training seminars: www.accordancebible.com/about/news/shows.php ACS training events: www.acstechnologies.com/training BibleWorks Training Workshop Schedule: www.bibleworks.com/training Camp Logos schedule: www.logos.com/camp/dates CDM+ training schedule: www.cdmplus.com/training Church Edit church web site seminar schedule: www.churchwebsitetips.co.uk Data Developments training dates: www.data-developments.co.uk/DDTRAINING.htm DonorWorks training schedule: www.donorworks.com/TrainingSchedule Logos Management Software training seminars: www.logoslbe.com/layout3.cfm?ID=228 Midnight Oil Productions seminar schedule: www.midnightoilproductions.com/seminar PowerChurch training seminars: www.powerchurch.com/training/seminar_list.php RDS Advantage training calendar: www.rdsadvantage.com/cgi-bin/cal/calendar.pl Servant PC Resources workshops and seminars: newsite.servantpc.com/training_seminars.htm Shepherd's Staff training schedule: www.shepherdsstaff.org/staff/training.asp Specialty Software training seminar schedule: www.specialtysoftware.com/Seminar.htm
New or Changed Entries in the Church Related Software Index:
Source	Product	Operating System
BA Software	Bible Analyzer	Linux, Windows
KidCheck, Inc.	KidCheck	Multiple (web-based)
Legal Stuff:
CAMsoc Update is a newsletter on computing in general, and Christian computing specifically. The contents are copyright © 2010 by Greg Slade and contributors, and may not be reprinted nor copied in any form without prior written permission from the author. For reprint permission, please contact the editor.

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CAMsoc Update was originally published as a stand-alone newsletter for the Computer Aided Ministry Society of Canada from 1988 to 1990. From 1990 to 1992, CAMsoc Update was an occasional page on Canadian Christian computing news in Church Bytes. The items in Church Bytes did not carry Volume or Issue numbers, but I have assigned them to "Volume 2" and numbered them in the order that they appeared.

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