Posts Tagged ‘Cloud / Internet / Email’
Wise Cloud Strategies
Church and ministry leaders are being tasked with making Cloud decisions, but need to know whether their decisions are good or bad, wise or unwise. This brief article will give you a framework for working through Cloud decisions.
Read MoreThree Things…
Our team does a lot of network engineering, and we run into some common issues in Christian churches and ministries. We find ourselves saying, “Now that needs to be an article!” The problem is, they’re usually topics that won’t make a full article by themselves, so they never make it as an article idea. In this article I’m going to address three of those issues: Macs in Active Directory, Who Owns Your Domain?, and How’s Your Cable?
Read MoreThose Mobile Devices We Love & Hate
The mobile devices we use– smartphones, tablets, and notebook computers– are an integral part of our everyday life. They make us more efficient and productive, for which we’re grateful, and some of their apps are even fun and entertaining! Unmanaged, however, they can take over our lives and make us want to escape them. So, then, how do we manage them so they retain their status as a blessing?
Read MoreConsumerization of IT
Computer use is going through a significant change… one that is challenging the status quo of most church and ministry networks. The IT world refers to it as the Consumerization of IT, and it is growing.
Read MoreHandling Online Activities with Care
Every year more organizations and people fall victim to cybercrime. Last year more than 300,000 reported cybercrimes to the FBI with losses in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Whether it’s simple theft, fraud, or identity theft, this is a significant area of opportunity for criminals. Let’s shed some light on how to protect your church office and those you know from cybercrime.
Read MoreCan ‘The Cloud’ Simplify IT?
Few phrases have caught the imagination of computer users and IT managers as has “The Cloud.” It will impact the way your ministry uses computers and, approached strategically, it can save your ministry money while also simplifying your IT operations.
Read MoreOffice 2010 & 2011
Microsoft released two versions of their Office Suite last year, and folks want to know if it’s worth upgrading to them. The bottom line is, yes! On either platform! Here are a few reasons why.
Read MoreSecurity Vulnerabilities
While at a conference recently I met a specialist in system security. He works in that role for one of the largest enterprise-class computer manufacturers. As we talked about security issues, I was surprised to learn how vulnerable many systems are! We met again by phone and video conference, and he shared some specifics with me.
Read MoreIT– Truth or Dare!
There are many misconceptions about the Internet, hardware, and software that impact the decisions people make. Let’s shed some light on a few of them!
Read MoreIT– 10 Years After Y2k
We’re at the end of the first decade of the millennium whose beginning we weren’t supposed to have survived! There were many crazypredictions– by others– that Y2k would be the end of civilization as we know it. Now, ten years after Y2k, what is the state of IT and its impact on The Church?
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