TL;DR: Digital Ministry News Recap 

This edition of the Digital Ministry Journal recaps news of interest to the digital ministry community. Product Hunt announces Spikes Studio, an AI-powered short form video creation tool. Smart Church Solutions shares insights on data-driven facility stewardship. Creative Director Crystal Ennis shares insights on viral social media posts with the Pro Church Tools Show team. Finally, Church Production shares findings from its visits to small, medium and large churches using PTZ (Pan-Tilt-Zoom) cameras.

AI-Powered Short Form Video Creation

Product Hunt announces launch of “Spikes Studio - Instantly turn any long video into viral shorts” (5-minute read) providing a brief description, reviews and alternative AI-powered products for generating short form videos for platforms like Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. These products are game-changers for churches that lacked the video editing skills for creating short form videos from sermons.

Data-Driven Facility Stewardship

Smart Church Solutions shares “The Power of Data-Driven Facility Stewardship” (2-minute read) describing concepts and benefits ranging from enhanced operational efficiency to enhanced occupant experience.

Cheat Code Social Media Post?

Brady Shearer and Alexander Mills of The Pro Church Tools Show interview Crystal Ennis, Creative Director at One Church in Sulphur Springs, Texas in “The Cheat Code Social Media Post with One Church” (60-minute watch). Ms. Ennis shares insights on One Church’s social media journey ranging from rapid growth on social media due to some viral short form videos to handling inappropriate comments and building their creative team.

PTZ Cameras

Church Production in partnership with JVC Professional Video shares “PTZ Initiative Hits the Road” (10-minute read), the first of three installments intended to raise awareness, share best practices and sensitize vendors to the church market’s unique needs in PTZ (Pan-Tilt-Zoom) cameras. This post shares findings ranging from enabling a single volunteer at a small church to operate multiple PTZ cameras to enabling placement of PTZ cameras in spaces not feasible for handheld cameras at a large church.

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