Last year I had the opportunity to attend the first Gurus of Tech East held at Southeast Christian Church in Louisville KY. The gang from the Church Tech Talk vodcast had this crazy idea that they could hold a small get together similar to the Gurus Gathering at NAB. I call them crazy for many reasons but mostly because they expected 25 to 50 people to show up and when the day finally came the roster had topped 300. It was an amazing time of sharing and teaching from both the stage and the floor.
And that is one of the things I liked most about the Gurus of Tech; everyone has something to share and everyone is invited to share.
So who should be going? According to the website:
Gurus brings together producers, directors, creative team members, Photoshop pros, shooters, Final Cut masters, FOH engineers, lighting directors, wireless techs, stage managers and more. They just happen to work in a church, like you. They come because they have a heart for service and a passion for the work.
Last year I took a team of media producers, camera techs, stage managers and sound techs. Everyone came back energized and motivated to grow their ministry. It didn’t matter what sessions they sat in on, they were energized and pumped to see our teams do more.
This year I hope to take a bus load of people. This is such an amazing event that will grow and inspire your team and you cant beat the price… FREE!
You could spend hundreds of dollars on conferences throughout the year and not get as much spiritual and intellectual feeding as you will get at Gurus.
I challenge all of you to pack up your team, staff and volunteers and head to Louisville this summer for the best technology and media conference on the planet.
Check it out – www.gurusoftech.com , the vodcast churchtechtalk.com
You are all GURUS of TECH
Cleaning House… err Blog?
So I have come to the realisation that I am awesome at starting blogs. But frankly I suck at keeping them going. Like any habit you try and make or break, once you’ve let it slide once, it’s a rapid slippery slope from there.
I wonder sometimes if the problem I have is lack of structure in my day? I don’t have a set time that I do my blog reading or posting and as such, the habit forming processes is broken from the start.
Recently I moved a bunch of my sites from one hosting provider to another and that’s when I stumbled across the fact that not only had I neglected this blog, but that the comments were full of spam and garbage. I have Captcha installed, but this was human posted spam. The kind that is easy to clean up and manage when you log into your blog more then twice a year. So i just spent the better part of an hour uninstalling captcha and installing Mollom and then purging all the spam comments.
Now don’t get me wrong, there was nothing wrong with Captcha. It was doing exactly the job it was supposed to do. But recently on another web project, Rob Feature over at Mustardseed Media turned me onto Molom. It’s a project by two guys, one being the founder of Drupal and since I now build exclusively in Drupal, it was safe to assume that Mollom’s functionality with Drupal is going to be rock solid.
So I’ve cleaned up the blog and will be posting a “Did you blog today?” note on the side of my monitor. Hopefully I will be able to bring you more tips like Mollom and such so stay tuned.
If your a blogger, what do you do to stay in the habit of being consistent with your blogging?
