Today I realized I had never posted a roll of the church IT blogs I read. So I went through and cleaned up the subscription list in my feed reader (IE 7), exported the list as OPML, and then imported it into blogrolling.com in order to quickly create the new blogroll you see on the [...]
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In my wee-hours haze last night I linked something totally unrelated to Andrew’s video. It’s here.
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The Annex is going away. It’s worth less than it would cost to move, so what to do? I know! Blow it up, real good! Our Facilities folks invited the local FBI SWAT team to use it for practicing a hostage situation. Andrew took a bit of video showing the guys in full battle gear [...]
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Those of you who subscribe to Seth Godin’s blog have already seen his post a week ago titled “Memo to the very small.” Interesting that he mentioned churches in the opening paragraph as possible users of his method for small organizations to use the web.
People from small or technically-unsophisticated churches frequently ask us for advice [...]
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We don’t need no stinking Neat Patch. (Sorry, Jason, couldn’t resist.)
This is one of the racks for our new office at Southcreek. It has two 48-port HP switches and fewer than 10 ports are free since we completed our moves yesterday.
On the shelf below the patch panel is our SonicWall firewall and DSL [...]
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Yesterday was the last big moving day in a sequence of moves we’ve been doing for more than a week.
Below is the humble Annex, a temporary building obtained for our rapidly-expanding Children’s Ministry back in the mid 1990s. For the last several years it has been the central church office, housing our receptionists, mail [...]
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We’re working closely with our Facilities Department to move 50 staff people, starting yesterday through the end of next week. Yesterday was Move Day 1 when we moved 21 people from Central Campus to the leased office at Southcreek. Next Wednesday and Thursday we’ll be moving 11 people from one place to another within campus [...]
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Here’s some of the work we’ve been doing over the last three weeks to prepare for 40 staff moving into the 9000 sq. ft. of office space we leased to replace our 13 year-old temporary building.
In the process of installing data and phone cables:Ian and Jeremy begin installing equipment in the phone/network room:
Jerry and Kevin [...]
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Another answer to Tony’s question comes from Joel Dehlin:
I.T. should not be saying no. You should give the customer(s) information about what resources you have available, and they should (collectively) make decisions about what to do with the resource. You can cajole, influence, or merely suggest, but the customers should be making these calls.
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I posted previously about the wireless LAN bridge we installed from our Central Campus to our new leased office space, and I mentioned the problems we’ve had with rain fade.
Since my last post I learned that the radios nominally use the 80 GHz band, but since it’s a full-duplex link, there are two diffferent frequencies [...]
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In reponse to Tony’s post about how much to serve users …
This is good stuff, Tony, but twelve values is probably too many. I try to simplify things down to three if at all possible.
1. Our default answer is “yes”. We always hope to find a way to meet the user’s need, even [...]
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From the number of comments on my Fall IT Roundtable Invitation, it seems like we’ll have a great group here in Kansas City for the Fall Roundtable. For now I just wanted to acknowledge all the responses. There will be a lot more information and discussion about the Fall event during the Spring [...]
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I posted earlier about the wireless LAN bridge we installed from our campus to our new leased office a couple of miles away.
These radios operate at such a high frequency (80 GHz) that nearly everything — a tree, a dense flock of birds, an errant golf ball (okay, I just made that one up) — [...]
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