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Justin.tv trial run- Aug 14th

So as many have noticed the ads on Ustream.tv were getting pretty ridiculous. With the new pre-roll that that they do before you could watch the live stream it was getting very frustrating for many people. Sadly the number of free solutions is very limited and the ones without ads even more so (non-existent that I could find). Today, August 14th, we are trying Justin.TV. While it still has the ads at the bottom we have yet to see a pre-roll so that is already a plus in my opinion.


You may have already noticed that we have embedded the Justin.tv feed into the front page of the website and also switched the Ustream button to a Justin.tv button. If you would like to participate in chat please click the link below the embedded video or the button on the right. You will need to signup for a free Justin.tv account to participate in chat (very sorry for that).


There is a way for each individual to remove the ads if they wish by signing up for a Pro account but I do not suggest that anyone do that at this time. If after some testing we decide to switch services permanently then that will be up to you. 

Please email me to let me know which service you prefer or if you know of another service that we can try.

UPDATE: We tried it and it failed miserably. But I don't think it was a problem with Justin.tv at all. I'm pretty sure I have some settings wrong on the system sending the stream out. I will do some more testing through the week and we may give it another try in the coming weeks.

--Brian Gawith

   The Tulsa Church of God

   Webmaster

Justin.tv Trial - Aug 14th

So as many have noticed the ads on Ustream.tv were getting pretty ridiculous. With the new pre-roll that that they do before you could watch the live stream it was getting very frustrating for many people. Sadly the number of free solutions is very limited and the ones without ads even more so (non-existent that I could find). Today, August 14th, we are trying Justin.TV. While it still has the ads at the bottom we have yet to see a pre-roll so that is already a plus in my opinion. 

You may have already noticed that we have embedded the Justin.tv feed into the front page of the website and also switched the Ustream button to a Justin.tv button. If you would like to participate in chat please click the link below the embedded video or the button on the right. You will need to signup for a free Justin.tv account to participate in chat (very sorry for that).

There is a way for each individual to remove the ads if they wish by signing up for a Pro account but I do not suggest that anyone do that at this time. If after some testing we decide to switch services permanently then that will be up to you. 

Please email me to let me know which service you prefer or if you know of another service that we can try.

--Brian Gawith
  The Tulsa Church of God
  Webmaster

Shocked by the Bible Content

By popular demand we have revised the content and we will be keeping the site around until further notice. 

On the site you will find all the audio related to the Shocked by the Bible Event. As well as the flash ad that we ran on our main website during the week leading up to the event. 

A link is available on the front page on The Tulsa Church of God website (tulsachurchofgod.net) but can also be reached at tulsachurchofgod.net/shocked.

If you want to download any of the audio content you may right-click and choose Save As.. on any of the links on the page. Or find us in the iTunes store or Zune Marketplace.

Shocked By The Bible Part 1 Available Now

The Shocked by the Bible seminar from August 06, 2010 is available in audio on our website. Head over to the Online Sermons section at http://tulsachurchofgod.net/sermons/2010sermons.htm to listen to it.If you wish to download it you have a couple options. You can right click on the Audio hyperlink on that page and click Save As... or subscribe to our podcast in iTunes (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=78499969) or the Zune Marketplace (zune://subscribe/?The Tulsa Church of God=http://www.tulsachurchofgod.net/podcast/podcast.xml)

Video may be up eventually for this event. I say eventually because I'm not really an editor so its a slow and difficult process. If nothing else I will get the PowerPoint slides up there for everyone to follow along with the audio.

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Shocked By The Bible Part 1 Available Now

The Shocked by the Bible seminar from August 06, 2010 is available in audio on our website. Head over to the Online Sermons section at http://tulsachurchofgod.net/sermons/2010sermons.htm to listen to it.If you wish to download it you have a couple options. You can right click on the Audio hyperlink on that page and click Save As... or subscribe to our podcast in iTunes (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=78499969) or the Zune Marketplace (zune://subscribe/?The Tulsa Church of God=http://www.tulsachurchofgod.net/podcast/podcast.xml)

Video may be up eventually for this event. I say eventually because I'm not really an editor so its a slow and difficult process. If nothing else I will get the PowerPoint slides up there for everyone to follow along with the audio.

Listen to an interview with Joe Kovacs

Pat Campbell interviewed Joe Kovacs this morning on KFAQ. You can listen listen to the interview on our main page tulsachurchofgod.net just wait for our little Event Teaser to finish and then look under the updates section for the interview. You will need Quicktime in order to play it.

This event is getting pretty close hope to see every one there. It does look like we will be trying to stream the event. I can't guarantee anything, not 100% sure how the internet connection is going to be so it may get spotty. We will also be recording the event for later posting up on Vimeo but everyone should really try to make it out there it will be way more enjoyable that way.

Another update/change to online videos

So we have been looking to do something different with our video archive for a little bit now. With our internet connection and recently discovered power issues within our church building we have had issues in the past of problems with the streaming and when the streaming goes down it really disrupts the recording. So we are going to now start using a service called Vimeo for our video archive, as well as UStream.

Ustream will still be used for our live streaming and we will also continue to record with UStream so that there is new content up there available for anyone who may be doing searches within that service. The links in the Online Sermons section of the website will however start changing from UStream to Vimeo. For the first few weeks it will only be new content that is on Vimeo and all existing recording will still be hosted by UStream. But in the near future you will start to see that the archived videos will start switching over as well. 

There are several benefits and perks to switching to this new setup:

  • Content will be in multiple locations most of the time
  • Vimeo will be less prone to video glitches as the video is recorded locally and then uploaded
  • Support for a higher quality video
  • No ads on the recorded content
  • You can download the videos. (a Vimeo account is required but like UStream its free)
  • Speaker albums; once we get more messages up there we will be able to link to an album that contains all the messages by that speaker.

Just wanted to let it be know so there was no major confusion when things started changing. If anyone has any requests for any specific messages they would like uploaded please send an email to tulsachurchofgod@gmail.com and we will see what we can do to add that to top of the list.

 

Members Only Section in Beta

Just added a link to a Members Only section for the members of The Tulsa Church of God. This section is still under development but you may still request a username and password. Currently the sections available that have content are the Phone Directory as what was published at the beginning of 2009, and the Birthdays and Anniversaries Calendar is up and running.

The Phone Directory listings are the same that are in the January 2009 Phone Directory so there are plenty of changes that we need to get posted and as soon as we can we will get that done.

The Birthday and Anniversaries Calendar still currently only lists First Name and Last Inital. This will get changed over the course of the next few days.

There is also an announcement section where we will post announcements that we do not wish posted on the main announcements page. So this will mostly only include letting people know of address changes or things of a personal nature.

Also in the works is an Order of Services online form. The plan is to setup 1 to 2 online forms that will allow song leaders and speakers coordinate the song service; for example a speaker can choose from a list of topics that apply to their message and that will be submitted to the song leader so they can see a list of songs that may have a similar message. We hope to include a way to see how many times a particualr song has been sung and the last time it was used.

If you would like to signup to see this section of the website please see Brian Gawith at church and he will get you setup with a username and password.