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Volume 14, Number 7		July, 2008

Contents: Administrivia: Goooood-bye, AdSense News: University of Leipzig plans to make the Codex Sinaiticus available online, Internet Evangelism Day site offers Church web site design tool. Recalls Coming Events New or Changed Mailing Lists New or Changed Entries in the Church Related Software Index Legal Stuff: Mine! All Mine!!!
Administrivia: Goooood-bye, AdSense
You may have noticed that the ads which have been on the CAMsoc Update site and other CAMsoc sites for the past few years have vanished. There are a couple of reasons for that. Firstly, I wasn't at all happy with the targeting of the ads. Even though the ads are supposed to be related to the content of the web site, most of the ads I saw while online had little, if anything, to do with computing and Christianity. (And, if I happened to use the term "mailing list" on a page, then all of the ads were guaranteed to offer you thousands or millions of top-quality E-mail addresses so you could set up your own business, spamming people from the comfort of your own home. Never mind that it made CAMsoc look sleazy to have those kinds of ads on the site, you people are all too smart to get suckered by that kind of scam, so the click-through rates were terrible.) Secondly, I am currently in the process of revising the Christian Telecommunications Toolkit. Specifically, I'm adding a new section on computer security (and updating Appendix D to include the latest software.) Part of the new section talks about "Safe Computing", and says, in part, "never click on an ad on a web page." That's because recent studies have shown that up to 80% of infections these days are caused by spyware installed through malicious ads, many of which are advertised through ads on perfectly legitimate sites. So, attractive as it is to have CAMsoc supported by advertising revenue, I can't very well tell you never to click on an ad on the web while simultaneously hoping that you'll click on the ads on the various CAMsoc sites. Nor can I expose you to the risk of being infected by spyware through the CAMsoc web site (however inadvertantly), now can I?
News:
"Check It Out" Department Up to now, analysing Biblical manuscripts directly has been a task limited to a few experts. The manuscripts are so fragile that you can't check them out of a library and look up passages yourself. (Even if they weren't so fragile, the possibility of such irreplaceable items being put at risk of been damaged by coffee stains (or – worse yet – yellow highlighters) probably gives curators nightmares on the rare occasions when they do take them out of their climate-controlled vaults. You can, for example, go to the John Rylands library in Manchester and see a manuscript fragment of the Gospel of John (the oldest known fragment of the New Testament), but it's kept in a glass frame, and you can't touch the frame, or even take a photo. Now, all that is about to change. The Codex Sinaiticus, one of the oldest known copies of the New Testament, is due to go online this month, made available in high-resolution images by the Unversity of Leipzig, one of four institutions which hold portions of the manuscript. So now, possibly, there will be yet another task that people can do right on their computers: manuscript analysis. (Graham, David, "Oldest New Testament Bible heads into cyberspace." Reuters. Monday, July 21, 2008. To subscribe: commerce.us.reuters.com/profile/pages/newsletter/begin.do Published by Thomson Reuters. Codex Sinaiticus Online: www.codex-sinaiticus.net)
"Check It Out" Department The people behind Internet Evangelism Day have long been studying the factors which make web sites more or less effective in communicating a message, and have boiled those insights down into a checklist which church webmasters can go through, and evaluate how effective their church web sites are likely to be. It may be somewhat intimidating to go through a tool like this, but it should provide concrete ideas for making a church web site more effective. (Church Website Design Tool: ied.gospelcom.net/church-site-design.php.)
Recalls:

Apple	Batteries for MacBook and MacBook Pro computers sold between February 2006 and April 2007.	Performance issues
Coming Events:
July 12-16, 2008. National Association of Church Business Administration 52^nd Annual Conference. Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center, Nashville, TN. www.nacba.net/conference/2008/2008Conf.htm July 24-26, 2008. Geeks & God Web 2.0 Conference. Michigan Theological Seminary, Plymouth, MI. geeksandgod.com/conference July 30, 2008. Public Lecture: "Downloading Our Spirituality: Why Going to Church Doesn't Seem Necessary in this Virtual Age," by Julie Canlis. Regent College, Vancouver, BC. www.regent-college.edu/events/public_lectures.html July 26-August 2, 2008. A Total Production Experience. Center for Creative Media Studios, Garden Valley, TX. centerforcreativemedia.com September 18-19, 2008. MinistryCOM: Church Communications Conference. Oklahoma City, OK. ministrycom.org September 26-27, 2008. Creative Worship/Design Matters: two day seminar by Midnight Oil. Mount Olympus Presbyterian Church, Salt Lake City, UT. www.midnightoilproductions.com/seminar/saltlake.php October 10-11, 2008. Creative Worship/Design Matters: two day seminar by Midnight Oil. Western Hills Christian Church, Lawton, OK. www.midnightoilproductions.com/seminar/lawton.php October 20-23, 2008. Internet Ministry Conference. Grand Rapids, MI. www.internetministryconference.org October 24-25, 2008. Creative Worship/Design Matters: two day seminar by Midnight Oil. Millville United Methodist Church, Stockbridge, MI. www.midnightoilproductions.com/seminar/stockbridge.php October 27-29, 2008. CDM+ 2008 Annual Users Conference. Hyatt Regency, Lexington, KY. www.cdmplus.com/Training/2008UsersConference October 27-30, 2008. ICCM Asia. Chiang Mai, Thailand. www.iccm-asia.org February 4-7, 2009. ICCM Europe. De Betteld, The Netherlands. www.iccm-europe.org Accordance training seminars: www.accordancebible.com/about/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 Data Developments training dates: www.data-developments.co.uk/DDTRAINING.htm DonorWorks training schedule: www.donorworks.com/whatsnew/schedule.html 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 Mailing Lists:
New or Changed Entries in the Church Related Software Index:
Source	Product	Operating System
Donor.com	Dasco	Multiple (Web-based)
Duet Software	Child Minder	Windows
Jeremy Erickson	BibleMemorizer	Linux, Macintosh, Windows
Legal Stuff:
CAMsoc Update is a newsletter on computing in general, and Christian computing specifically. The contents are copyright © 2008 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 is a newsletter on computing in general, and Christian computing specifically. The contents are copyrighted by Greg Slade, and may not be reprinted or copied in any form without prior written permission from the author. Software and hardware developers, book publishers, etc., may send news releases for CAMsoc Update to the address listed on the contact page.

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.

Now, CAMsoc simply stands for "Computer Aided Ministry Society", and the focus is on all aspects of computing of interest to Christians, but especially on telecommunications. The online issues start with Volume 3, Number 1 (July, 1995.)

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