Well the time has come to announce the winner of the free tickets to the Reconnect Tech Conference. It was a tough choice and I wonder if having more submissions would have made it an easier decision or not, but being what it was, it came down to two great stories.
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Make Your Remote “Nearly” Idiot Proof
We have a few projectors that have a few too many “convenience” buttons on the remotes that seem to mess people up. Resulting in a lot of after hour calls to me for tech support. So I decided it was time to do something about it. Continue Reading…
Holiday Reading Plans
I know it’s still a week before Christmas and if you are like me you aren’t thinking of anything else other then how to get through your Christmas services and still get some last minute shopping in. Working in church has a toll. That toll is having no personal time the three weeks leading up to Christmas, between the extra rehearsals, additional tech rentals and still doing your weekly routine, there is no time for personal pleasures.
Because of the chaos before Christmas I like to take the week after and do some hard core reading. But recently I read a blog post by Jonathan Malm about stop reading. He talks about how so often we get caught up in reading the latest trend books that eventually we are all just lemmings following the pack.
When approaching the topic of reading I like to think I don’t follow the pack; at least not when the topic is trending. I think back to when I first read Good to Great by Jim Collins. I was looking for a recipe book that was going to make my business great, and if all the other business leaders were reading it, then I had better read it too or there was no hope for my business. What I found was not a recipe book for success, but a way of looking at examples of what I want (success) and how to recognize characteristics, choices, and mistakes the example businesses had made. This was supposed to help me think about how I could make my business a success, I still had to come up with my own recipe.
So when approaching my holiday reading plan I have a variety of books picked out. Some were written to be a recipe for success, of which I will read critically and decide what I will apply and what i will through away. Everything is meant to be inspiration for how to use the gifts and talents I have to further my mission.
Now the only time I read looking for a recipe for success is when my wife lets me do some baking, but I don’t have a good track record of that so it doesn’t happen very often.
Christmas Reading List:
- Jolt! by Phil Cooke
- Outspoken by Tim Schraeder et. al.
- 30 days to a more organized life by C.G.P. Grey
- God and Gadgets by Brad J. Kallenberg
- 31 days to finding you blogging mojo by Brian Allain
So What is on your Christmas Reading List?
GoPro goes Wifi
It Takes The Right People
Several years back I picked up the book Good To Great by Jim Collins. It’s ana amazing read about what makes good organizations. It helped me a lot when I was in the business market. There is even versions condensed for the social sector, education and non-profits. One of the best parts of the book is the section about how you need the “right people on the bus”.
Review: Piwik – Stats the way they were meant to be!
Why Does Church Need To Be Such a Production?
I’ve been doing tech in church for about 7 years now. Wow I just realized how long it really has been. I started as a volunteer doing lighting, then later was asked to come on staff during our last expansion 5 years ago. During this time I have brought my production experience to help “raise the bar” on our Sunday morning production.
Camera Men != Snowmen : How to Shoot Indoors and not Look Boring
