What do you do when your church grows to the point where asking for member feedback is a daunting task? Maybe you want to get the input of the parents on the new children’s ministry programming. Or maybe you want to create an online version of a welcome card for your online campus. This blog post will be more for an IT tech then a production tech, but it will benefit your whole church. Continue Reading…
Tag Archive - IT
How to Get More Done by Reading Less Often
A week ago one of our Youth Pastors and I were chatting over lunch while we waited for an amp to be repaired. As is common our conversation circled around new technology, how the church can utilize technology, and how some technology has taken a strong grip on our lives. I have come to believe that email is the poor mans instant messaging; or at least there are a lot of people out there who think so. Often I walk across the church and someone will invariably ask me “Did you get my email yet?” So how do we regain control of our lives and put the MAIL back into email?
Password is Not A Password
It’s been a crazy weekend trying to put our lives back on track, but I need to share this experience to help people understand the importance of password security. 
This weekend my Wife’s Facebook account was hijacked, and while for some that feel this is not a serious issue, I will go into great detail as to how this is probably as close to having your identity stolen as you would ever want to get.
When Dumb is Better Then Smart
Last week I posted about my public WiFi upgrades and mentioned the fact that I had put in a smart switch
to share and prioritize our internet connection. I’m here to admit that smart wasn’t that smart of an idea; or at least that I screwed up when putting it in. Continue Reading…
The Lord said “Go and Give My People Free WiFi”
Okay maybe it’s not exactly from the Bible, but I think if things were a little different back then Isaiah would have been sitting under a tree with his Netbook desperately trying to find an open WiFi connection so he could update his Facebook status with “back soon. gotta run some errands for the Lord” Continue Reading…
Would the Best GTD App Please Stand Up
For those of you that hate three letter acronyms, GTD stands for Getting Things Done. The latest buzz term for the age old task and time management programs. Continue Reading…
Should the church offer public wifi?
The truth of comparing “Apples” to Apple
As a computer guy I get a lot of people asking me “what kind of computer should I buy?” And with the school season upon us the questions get a whole lot more frequent. I don’t claim to be a genius in this area, but 6 years of selling comercial IT systems and working for an Apple authorized sales and service center, I have some strong and in my opinion well grounded reasons for what I recommend. But lately I have been recommending Apple products to people more and more. And here’s why… Continue Reading…
Does your church purchase or lease it’s computers?
As the fall approaches I’m getting ready to plan out next years IT budget and the question is what to do with our aging computers, or more importantly, do we lease new ones or take it on as a capitol expediter? I spent a number of years in the commercial IT business and dealt with several businesses that had very strong opinions on the issue. Usually these opinions are driven by the economics of their particular industry. But the economics of church is very different.
I’d love to hear what other churches are doing and reasons for either option.
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