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== Audio or Video Recordings ==

Online audio and video are increasingly popular ways to distribute media,
especially with the advent of standards and software for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting podcasting].  For web distribution you will  need computer files containing digital recordings of your sermons, and one or more ways to make the content of these files available.  The contents of your audio and video file can be delivered by making files available by "streaming play", manual file download, or automated download from a web feed (podcast).

A few links offering help with making versions of your sermon available online are:

*[http://www.deliveryourmedia.com/article-audio-primer.html Streaming Audio Primer] -- a more thorough introduction; unfortunately the sound editing software featured is no longer inexpensively available, but [http://audacity.sourceforge.net Audacity] is similar in operation, free, open-source, and excellent.

*[http://www.sermonsonline.org NetMedia] is a company that specializes in audio hosting of online sermons.  Their services include a software program, a hosting service, and a service where they will convert a CD or tape into Real Audio and/or MP3.

== Congregations With Video Sermons Online ==
See also [[List of UU podcasts]].

* [http://www.uuabq.org First Unitarian Church of Albuquerque]


== Congregations With Audio Sermons Online ==
See also [[List of UU podcasts]].

* [http://www.uuabq.org First Unitarian Church of Albuquerque]
* [http://www.fusmadison.org/sermons/sermon.shtml First UU of Madison]
* [http://www.uuchurch.org/pgevt.htm#audiosermons University Unitarian Church (Seattle, WA)]
* [http://www.rochesterunitarian.org/Sermons.html First Unitarian of Rochester NY]
* [http://www.netmedia.org/uucsr/index.htm UU Congregation at Shelter Rock] (Uses NetMedia service listed above)
* [http://www.uufec.com/media/audio/uufecaudio.htm UU Fellowship of the Emerald Coast]

== Congregations with Audio Testimonials Online ==

Sermons aren't the only thing you can make available online....

* [http://www.firstuniv.org/members_speak.html Brief Audio Statements By Members of First Universalist Church of Minneapolis]



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