Email for life
Have you ever had one of those emails that says, 'please update your address book because I have changed my email address from joebloggs@btinternet.com to joe.bloggs39@tiscali.co.uk'. If you're anything like me the first thing you probably do is stop and ask yourself "do I know this person?". Five minutes nearer the grave and you're back up to date... how much easier it would be if they always had the same email address.
The solution is to get your own domain name and set up an email forwarding address (an 'alias') to point at your 'real' email address, the one you probably get with your internet connection. Then, however many times you may change change your provider your public email address will remain the same, you just update the forwarding each time. You may never want to have your own website but for less than a fiver per year you can spare yourself and your friends a lot of suffering. For example philip@hind.org.uk has at different times pointed to several different real email addresses, but when someone picks up a faded copy of the door in twenty years time they'll still be able to contact me. It also means that I can offer everyone in my family their own personalised email address and I never have to update their entry in my address book.
Bible by Text
Text:Bible was launched in December 2006 and is a service where people can receive a portion of scripture straight to their mobile phone either everyday or once a week. Text the word BIBLE to 81025 and a Bible verse will be sent to your mobile phone Monday to Friday. Or you can text the word WEEKLY to 81025 and a Bible verse will be sent to your phone once a week. It's free to sign up but costs 25p per text charged automatically through your phone bill. The company behind the project say all the proceeds go to supporting Christian projects. For more information visit www.textbible.co.uk
Free web site hosting by the diocese
About 85 parishes and other groups in the diocese have their websites hosted free by the diocese. We're expanding our provision for parish and other websites so if you feel now is the time to explore getting a website or you have one hosted elsewhere that you might like to move then please get in touch. If you don't have or don't want a website but would like to drive more visitors to you church remember that www.achurchnearyou.com contains an entry for your church already and you can easily update it with all the latest information about your church and parish activities. A Church Near You gets over 25,000 hits per week and is the first stop for many people looking for a church.
If you need any help with web matters contact Philip Hind on 01865 208262 or email webmaster@oxford.anglican.org
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