Faith Hacker

If you’re still running around with a jump drive or using a local server to share files in your church or ministry, you need to check out Dropbox. You can install it as an application on your computer, cell phone or ipad and have access to any files you “drop” in the folder on any other device logged in with that same account. You can even share a folder to another account. My church uses this a lot. All of our laptops and computers have it installed and when I design something or someone asks for a file I just say, “It’s in Dropbox.” and they know where to find it.

You can get 2GB of space free or pay $99 for 50GB or $199 for 100GB. Here are some examples of how we use dropbox:

- Share design files with our church plants.
- Share our lyrics library/database so we don’t have to re-enter lyrics into each computer
- Share pictures and names of all new members so staff can learn names with faces from their cell phone
- Keep a folder of all manuals to tech stuff
- Keep a folder of all ministry logos so they are easily accessible to all

Here’s what dropbox looks like on your computer:

And your iPhone:

And the web: