Last week we finally had time to focus on our spam problem. With some assistance from our friendly SonicWall tech support person, we installed a software update and tweaked our configuration. Turns out that at some point we white-listed everything from cor.org, no doubt to address a false positive situation, but that was a bad [...]
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In case you missed it, I found it very interesting to see Guy Kawasaki reveal a bit of his personal faith in this recent blog post. In the post he includes this link to presentations at a church leadership conference in Hawaii this Fall. I’m glad to know Guy is interested in the [...]
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Now that Web Empowered Church (WEC) has been underway for a couple of years, Mark Stephenson has come to the belief that it won’t reach its full potential without Church Management System (ChMS) functionality, or at least deep integration with an existing ChMS. I totally agree with that assessment. So Mark and I thought it [...]
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On Wednesday I had the pleasure of visiting Ben Hill United Methodist Church, just a few miles from the airport in south Atlanta. The Foundation for Evangelism’s technology leader, Rubin Perry, is a member of that storied church and one of its hardest-working unpaid servants. After 100 years of ministry, Ben Hill is still learning, [...]
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The New York Times confirms that spam is getting worse, due primarily to two factors: 1) spammers are using farms of spambots running on insecure computers, which are abundant in homes with cable modems, making it ineffective to identify spam by originating IP address. Distributed security threats are always more difficult to block than localized [...]
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Look out for a flurry of posts from me. It’s amazing how much writing you can do in an airport and on a plane with no Internet.
Speaking of the airport, this is what greeted me when I tried to check the price to get WiFi today in Atlanta …
Note: Because you are using [...]
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Here’s how I see the Church Management System (ChMS) marketplace. We’re confronting the question of which ring of the market makes the most sense for us.
As you move in toward the center, the functionality is a closer and closer match to our requirements, but fewer and fewer organizations will be running it. On the outer [...]
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This week I’m going to Atlanta to meet with Tony Dye as well as Mark Stephenson and Rubin Perry. Tony has graciously agreed to show me around Perimeter Church, introduce me to his A-team (A is for “awesome”), and talk about Church Management Systems (ChMS). Mark is joining in on the fun. Separately, Mark and [...]
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My friend Jay points us to Amazon’s grand new scheme. Now let’s see, how do we point, click, and plant a new church? Or, better yet, point, click, and lead people into a deeper relationship with Jesus? Hmmm …
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Wired posted some pictures of the new particle accelerator under construction at CERN. At the end is this picture of CERN’s “Internet Exchange Point,” birthplace of the web. I’m feeling all weepy!
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