PLAY
PLAY is a new service available via the the web, developed by Sims Island to offer downloadable and streamed content (audio, video, other media) to visitors or members of your web site. Media is searchable by category, author, title, and series. The system is ideal for any organisation who regularly produce media that would benefit from web-based delivery, but has specifically been designed for churches as a media system for sermons.
Built With Churches In Mind
Creating a website is a key step in communicating your vision as a church. But why stop there? A website can also be used as a means to help christians to grow by offering teachings, time-sensitive event information, helpful apologetic resources in downloadable or streamed format. Furthermore, it can offer a place to discuss many topics and allow christians who are needing understanding to ask their questions. Furthermore, with the right approach and right features a website can also act as an introductory evangelical tool in the presentation of the gospel to those who are looking for answers.
PLAY is a module that allows you to let both your church and the general public know what is happening at your church week by week. You start by building a schedule of upcoming talks, which you can group by various categories such as by series or by book, and add information on the speaker giving the talk. Once the service has taken place you can then attach a recording of it; a huge benefit for those who weren't able to make it that week – as well as providing a great resource for people to learn from when studying God's word in their own personal time. You can attach audio/video recordings, notes, & pretty much any kind of file you can think of to past sermons. And for each file you can decide who gets to see/hear it: from general public, to church member, to elder, to trustees.
Not Just Sermons
PLAY is a modular product that is built on top of our content management system - WCMS. This means not only do you get a web site that allows people to search/play and download your sermons & its associated resources, but you also get all the features offered with our core content management system, like: Content & Articles Management, Flash integration, Image Galleries, Document Repositories, RSS feeds, Contact Forms, GoogleMaps API integration, Forums & dynamic site maps. Everything for a feature-rich web site that meets all your needs.
Advanced Sermon Management
PLAY is designed to manage your sermons with ease. It offers you the ability to inform people of upcoming sermons and events; acts a resource center for downloading files relating to those sermons/events, such as, audio/video recordings of sermons. The ability to record and display details about speakers, categorise sermons into series of a particular topic or bible passage, and connect audio, documents, images and other media files to sermons. And restrict who can see and download those files. Media files will be assigned meta data when uploaded from the sermon to which they are assigned.
PLAY allows your sermon audio to be streamed live in your on-site media player, downloaded for future listening, syndicated for podcasts and ask us how we can automatically upload your mp3s directly into the iTunes store. Files such as Word documents are also made available for download by users.
Downloads Search Facility
Visitors to the church website will be able to search a central library of sermons by all fields, but to make things even more simple you can view filtered sermons by date, popularity, series, speaker, and book of the bible.