Using Internet APIs for ministry.

5. The New Cold War

6. Using “The Cloud” For Ministry

7. API
Application Programming Interface

8. A set of functions that
can be called from an
application program to
access features of
another program.

9. Fail

13. Here
Not Here

14. Why Should I Care?

15. •Save Money
• Save Time
• Speed Up Your Site
• Do Things Better
• Do Things You Couldn’t
Do Otherwise

16. Reach People For Christ

19. Search

20. Your Built-In
Search Engine

21. • What: Search Your site with
Google or Yahoo! search.
• What: Search PDFs, HTML, etc.
• Why: Get better search results and
make them look like your site.
No ads!
• Cost: $100/year and Free!

22. • Why not: can’t search
private stuff

23. 1
Your Website
4
2
3
1. User enters search
2.Your website queries Search service (Google,
Yahoo, etc.)
3. Services returns results Search Service
4.Your website customizes the output and
returns to the user.

26. Speed

27. Your Site’s Speed

28. “Me Need Fast Cookie”

29. • What: Host common
javascript libraries on
Google, Yahoo, AOL,
Amazon
• Why: Speed up your site
• Cost: Free!

32. Content Distribution Network
$$$$$$$$

34. Without Coral
253ms
With Coral
95ms

36. YSlow

38. Language

44. Location

46. IP Address
Geocoding
Service
Geographical
Address
“Reasonably”
Close

47. • What: Find the longitude,
latitude, city, state and
country information for a
user.
• Why: Customize your site
for them.
• Cost: Free and cheap.

55. Pictures

56. • What: Share photos
• Why: Build community,
provide additional services
to users (printing, posters,
etc.)
• Cost: Free and cheap.

59. Video

63. Community

68. Other

74. Tools

75. FireBug

79. SOAP REST
Simple Object Representational State
Access Protocol Transfer

83. • 5qcommunications.com
• briant@5qcommunications.com