Planning Center Online is a tool for creating service orders for Sundays, as well as sharing files and scheduling musicians.  As I’ve considered using a system like this for our team at Covenant Life, it’s the best one I’ve found so far.  A number of them have come out in the last year or two, all with different strengths or weaknesses.

I’d be interested in knowing if any readers have had experience with any of these systems?  If so, you can put a comment here or send me an email.

Similar systems out are Worship Organizer, Worship Schedule, and Worship Team.com.  I’m grateful for those who have put these out, serving this niche need for many churches.

Amazon.com has created createspace.com to let people self-publish books, CDs, electronic downloads, and more.  Each product is created on demand, rather than in pre-produced quantities, which saves you from making 1,000 CDs when you’re only going to sell a couple hundred.  You get the barcode, and everything else you need.

TuneCore (not sure if this is new) is a service that lets you put any music you’ve created onto itunes and other download services.

The fees seem very reasonable for both.

(HT: Between Two Worlds)

Here’s a pretty cool idea: iConcertCal is a plugin to your itunes that searches your library, and tells you when there are concerts in your city, based on your itunes library.

For those who have primarily church-related music on their itunes, it may not help you fight the “worship-artist/rock star” mentality, but it is a good tool, nonetheless.

(HT: eHub)

For those who have considered checking out Ableton Live for audio editing, loops, and more, a light version is now available for less than than half the price.  Free trial versions are also available.