Comments on: Pastors – wouldja please stop using WordPerfect 5.1?

By: Marcus

Marcus — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:06:23 +0000

I always puzzled over the church’s widespread adoption of wordperfect. And I assumed it had to do with money. Microsoft didn’t give as good of a deal as Corel, I guess.

Online apps “in the cloud” are a good direction to think about. I’d love to hear more from Bill about how the docs are working for him.

(On a side note, we talked with a big national research company that uses google notebook and google docs to do their research!)

By: Bill Siddall

Bill Siddall — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:15:11 +0000

Years ago, my church was entirely a WordPerfect shop. I have finally weaned them off WordPerfect to using MS Word. The last straw was when we hired a new office manager and she said, “WordPerfect? You’ve got to be kidding.” I haven’t raised the subject of Google Docs to the pastors and staff, yet. The lack of user-defined templates is a major Google Docs killer.

Six months ago I moved the church to Google Apps. That has worked great for email. The staff didn’t have to change the way they work, but they see a lot less spam and it’s easier for me to administer. We have used Docs and Sites a little bit for special projects with tech-savvy volunteers.

By: Chris Huff

Chris Huff — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:42:11 +0000

I personally haven’t switched to online apps because I don’t have an internet connection half the time I’m on my laptop. Not at school and not at my full-time job (I’m “part-time” at church). So it doesn’t make sense for everybody, unless I’m missing something.

By: brandon

brandon — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:37:03 +0000

Man I love you guys! You really know how to point things out in a gentle… well, okay, a prophetic way! Another advantage of some online publishing applications is the ability to make documents public – a great feature for sermons.