“Why To…” Instead of “How To…”

Posted on February 11, 2010 - Filed Under communities, podcasting, video streaming | 4 Comments

Here at CTM, a good bit of what we post is related to the ‘How To” for a particular subject.  This could be Audio, Video, web site, podcasting, video casting, using new tools or expanding on old tools.  Sometimes, as tech ministry leaders/volunteers, I believe we can get caught up in the “How To…” and [...]

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Power IT Down Day

Posted on August 25, 2009 - Filed Under Announcements, Church IT, citrt, communities | Leave a Comment

Thursday, August 27, is “Power IT Down Day.”
Even you can help out… just turn off your computers and monitors, printers, fax machines whatever.  When you leave for the day, turn off the whole system,the monitor, printers, everything that is not essential.  Imagine how much energy we’d save if  we  all powered off every non essential  [...]

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A 123 to Securing PC’s

Posted on February 26, 2009 - Filed Under Announcements, Church IT, citrt, communities, software | 3 Comments

I’ve been working in computing for 25yrs now and to be honest, not much surprises me anymore. Oh sure, human culpability and stupidity are ones that never cease to amaze me – but in terms of computer security I’m 99.9% confident of keeping my personal machine clean and free from harm. In 25yrs I have [...]

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Are You A Candidate For CITRT?

Posted on March 5, 2008 - Filed Under Tech Arts Team, citrt, communities | 2 Comments

CITRT = Church IT Roundtable
I finally went to my first roundtable last fall at Church of the Resurrection in KC and I can’t wait for the one on April 5 in OKC.  Last fall I was able to meet many people I knew of and people I interacted with via e-mail, yet had never met. [...]

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Twitter #Hashtags – CITRT Community

Posted on January 17, 2008 - Filed Under Twitter, communities | 3 Comments

Twitter is a fun site and it revolves around the question ‘What are you doing?’. You have 140 characters to express what you are doing at any given moment, yet it oftentimes turns into a conversation between you and any number of people. When you follow someone, then things that they twitter, or [...]

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Communities of Practice

Posted on January 5, 2008 - Filed Under communities | 2 Comments

There has been a lot of discussion lately about community.  Do you know where I have heard this discussion?  In one of my communities, Twitter.  I have other communities, many others, actually.  The fact that you read this blog makes you part of the CTM community here and you even have the opportunity to participate [...]

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