Leading Volunteers – No Easy Button

Posted on July 29, 2009 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 2 Comments

In talking with other church tech leaders, one thing I often hear is how frustrating it is to lead tech volunteers.  There’s a lot of frustration surrounding how unreliable they are and there’s always a need for more volunteers and they don’t do things the “right” way and more.  I do my best to probe [...]

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Build a Website – Part Deux

Posted on July 24, 2009 - Filed Under Equipping, media | 1 Comment

In part one of this series I laid out the basics of project mgmt as I see them and briefly mentioned my use of FreeMind to do some brain storming / mind mapping. There are of course many resources and utilities out there that can be used instead of FreeMind – but this is the [...]

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Tutorial – DVD Ripping

Posted on July 17, 2009 - Filed Under Equipping, software, support | 4 Comments

I have to preface this post by saying that neither I nor any members of CTM
condone the ripping of DVDs or any other source for personal or commercial gain.
This article discusses techniques to copy content that you legally own to other formats.

I was discussing the Traxdata USB Multimedia Player (more on this another time … [...]

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Google Voice – A New Tool for Ministry

Posted on July 14, 2009 - Filed Under Church IT, Equipping, Uncategorized | 6 Comments

Google is finally rolling out Google Voice to the masses – albeit slowly – via invitation. To get an invitation, you simply need to enter your email address at this site. The site also has a really good demo video that details what Google Voice can do. I recently received my official [...]

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Generating PDF Files Easily

Posted on July 13, 2009 - Filed Under software | 6 Comments

Maybe I’m one of the few who struggle with this, but one of the problems I seem to run into regularly is the need to just take a simple document already in my possession and convert it into a PDF so many other people can view it. Some programs such as OpenOffice.org have this built [...]

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