I know I’m not the first person to have a bad customer experience at Best Buy. Neither will I be the last, no doubt. This is what happened last week.
I went with my daughter, who is a college junior, to Best Buy to look for a laptop. (Why didn’t we purchase it online? Because she [...]
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Once again, the Church IT RoundTable managed to be the coolest thing ever. Here are my quick, contemporaneous notes from the roundtable sessions. I moderated in Studio B, so my ability to take good notes was limited.
Conference WiFi
24 laptops in the room. Most if not all connected to the demo Xirrus array in the room. [...]
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David Kinnaman, President of The Barna Group and author of unChristian, gave a talk at Resurrection tonight and took questions from Adam and the audience. Here are my notes.
David has been with Barna for 14 years, since he was a junior in college (which makes him approx. 35).
The public thinks present-day Christianity is no [...]
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If it’s true that the staff that plays together stays together, then today was a good day at Resurrection. Lots of good-natured trash talk before and lots of fun during the First Annual? Staff Flag Football Classic.
Naturally, I snapped a few pics.
Check out my Flickr set for more gripping action shots!
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Why did I launch clifguy.com and then not blog for 6 weeks?
trip to Florida to meet with Christ Fellowship and Flamingo Road
personal briefcase/laptop bag stolen
lost my assistant Amy (promoted to the executive suite - good for her, bad for me!)
interviewed for and hired Amy’s replacement
several staff teams moving from one office to another requiring changes [...]
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June 17-19 Chuck Russell and I visited South Florida to benchmark the Internet Campuses of Christ Fellowship and Flamingo Road. When we arrived at the Palm Beach airport, I hit a snag totally of my own making. Somehow I forgot that I had carried my bag on to the plane whereas Chuck had [...]
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Eight years ago I hired a software developer in his low 20s, straight out of college. He had a cell phone but no land line at home. It was quite weird at the time, but was the start of a trend. The number of land lines in use in the US has [...]
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I’m in Oklahoma City with Chuck Russell, Brian Slezak, and Andrew Conard to benchmark LifeChurch’s Internet Campus by observing them in action and by meeting with Terry Storch (Digerati Pastor) and Brandon Donaldson (Internet Campus Pastor).
Our day began with attending the 10:00 service (”experience” in LifeChurch parlance) at the Edmond campus where the Global Operations [...]
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Following up on Tony’s question: “is your role more of a CIO, or a CTO?” here is a post on point by Jason Hiner of Tech Republic.
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Pastor Andrew Conard of our congregational care team at Resurrection is in a series of posts about the “business side” of the church. I started to compose a comment to his post on technology and ended up with a post of my own. So here are my thoughts in response to Andrew.
A local congregation isn’t [...]
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Welcome readers of The Appian Way to my new blog home, Clif Guy all the time at clifguy.com. Take a look around and you’ll notice that I’ve imported all of my own posts from The Appian Way. The photos are still stored at Blogger/Google, but most linked over and are displaying properly. My RSS feed [...]
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I bought gas at the Phillips 66 station in Parkville last night. The van tank holds approximately 23 gallons and it was nearly empty. Price was $3.799, so that’s an $85 fill up. Towards the end of the fill up, I noticed the flow slow and then stop exactly on $75. Apparently the pump had [...]
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Those of you following me on Twitter know that my wife got a call at home Wednesday afternoon from Time Warner with the news that we were getting a free upgrade to Road Runner Turbo service, which is nominally 15 Mb/s down and 1 Mb/s up. Most of you are thinking, "sweet!" Very shortly [...]
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Justin Moore writes:
Clif,
Wasn’t it you in one night at a restaurant in Kansas City last fall telling those at your table about how you used to create graphics in assembly on old Apple’s? For some reason I’m thinking it was, so I immediately thought of you when I saw this video.
Even if that [...]
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We began end user training on Arena today as we hurtle towards go live on May 6. Since we need to train 130 people and our class size is limited to 8 students, we’ll be training all day Monday through Friday for the next thee weeks. Jeremy and Leo are sharing the teaching load. Here [...]
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Quick notes:
1. Tony’s session this afternoon raised the bar. He was funny and engaging. My mind was too cluttered to live blog it, so I just listened. Good talk. IT does present a lot of paradoxes. Tony thinks success involves holding a lot of things together that seem to be opposite or contradictory. Sounds a [...]
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I presented a break out session at MinistryTECH this afternoon. Jim blogged it. So did Jason.
Ian started playing around with his webcam and realized he could live stream my talk through Ustream. Cool! Brian back at the office got in on the act.
Why do we need advance planning and real-world testing when we can just [...]
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Presenter: Terry Storch, Digerati Pastor at LifeChurch.tv here in Oklahoma City.
Are we idiots for making the transition from secular work to low-paying church work? He was labeled an idiot in 1991 when he became the preschool pastor at Fellowship Church (at that time Fellowship of Las Colinas). Jesus was (and is) looking for idiots.
Jeff [...]
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Quick notes:
1. This is the first time I’ve ever connected to an access point at N speed. I’ve had this laptop for two months and supposedly have N access points at home and the office, but I’ve never actually connected at N speed. Too many other things on my plate to try to troubleshoot why. [...]
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Presenter: Jon Edmiston, Director of IT and Communications at Christ’s Church of the Valley.
More time on solutions, less on infrastructure.
Unlike corporate IT, we can focus just on the customer (congregants). Few mission-critical applications.
Membership system is the core application.
Member data must drive the website.
Single platforms trump disparate but integrated solutions (best in [...]
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