Did anyone else notice this Wired blog post mocking GodTube? There are many things swirling in my mind about this: 1. Does it make sense to have “Christian” versions of popular, secular web sites, or does it make more sense to proclaim the good news on the secular sites themselves? John Brownlee, the writer of [...]
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We are in the process of taking our network management up to the next level. Our server and network infrastructure has gotten sufficiently large and complex that we need to keep a much closer eye on what is happening. We need to be able to monitor resources, applications, and errors. We need a way to [...]
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We are preparing to move 40 staff to an office building a couple of miles from the church. For the last several years those staff have worked out of a temporary building for which the temporary use permit is now expiring. So how do you connect 40 remote staff to your LAN? If you have [...]
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Pete Whiting, in a guest post on Joel Dehlin’s blog, has some insights into the perils of complexity. This is good food for thought as we plan our server virtualization project at Resurrection, which we have scheduled for implementation in May. I particularly agree with Pete’s point about isolating/avoiding tight coupling between services. For example, [...]
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Thanks Tony for your outstanding hospitality during my visit to Perimeter Church back in December with Mark Stephenson. Please offer my long overdue thanks to the rest of your team as well. Our tour of Perimeter Church’s facilities was amazing. God has blessed the church with an innovative spirit that is never satisfied with past [...]
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Scoble posted today about the Viacom-Google lawsuit. He says Viacom loses by winning. YouTube, which is owned by Google, wins by losing. It will be a few years before we know, but I hope he’s right.
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Mark Batterson posted recently about the kingdom impact of freely sharing creative ideas. Here’s hoping Mark’s vision spreads to decision-makers in other congregations. The Church should be the greatest open source community in the world.
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Tony has been blogging about various Daylight Savings Time issues at Perimeter Church here, here, and here. We, too, have had some serious headaches with this. I commented on one of Tony’s posts saying that we couldn’t get the Exchange Calendar Update tool to work. Tony generously put the question out to IT Discuss and [...]
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I was part of a group of IT leaders from very large churches that met a couple of times a year for three years or so. The group (which never had a name other than “megachurch IT group”) included Mike Gold of Willow Creek, Terry Chapman of Fellowship Church, Vic Mollett of Southland Christian Church, [...]
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Perry Noble points us to Steven Furtick blasting church hoppers/church shoppers like I’ve never seen it done before. I was fired up by his comments. On the other hand, I have good friends who have struggled with finding the right place where God is calling them to worship, grow, and serve. There’s a line between [...]
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