There has been a lot of talk recently regarding all of the new generation of “simple applications.” Recently, Brian Glass posted about User Interfaces. He names 4 different tools he uses: in-house terminal based applications, …

Tony Morgan had a great post a few days ago called Drive the Car, where he challenged leaders to allow their team members to step up. Preach it Tony! Far too often, I’ve seen ministry …

Not long ago, there was a post titled “If Your Volunteers Posted a Blog”. Taking another viewpoint, what if new visitors blogged about your church and their experience? The Blogging Church has a post regarding …

A few weeks ago, I posted about [tag]Church FUD[/tag] – Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. I was asked by a reader what to do when you are past FUD and into MUD – Major Uncertainty and …

If your volunteers posted an entry on their blog about your ministry, what would they say?

Are you others-focused, or self-focused?
Are you making progress, or making work?
Are you organized, or scattered?
Do you listen, or do …

Do you fear change? Does your church? Do you look for reasons to stave off change? Or, are you getting radical about change when change is necessary?
We all know that change is a certainty, …

Jim Walton at Church Tech Matters posted part 2 of his Email Etiquette series regarding sending email to your congregation. Here is a snippet from part 1:
I saw a letter from a church recently detailing …

I have a background in enterprise application development, which is a fancy way of saying that I often have to build software that can handle many thousands of users at a time. During the “.com …

Bob Nahrstadt’s Blog, Out of My Mind, has an interesting discussion regarding Sybase and their reaction to the troubles they encountered from Oracle in the mid 90s. I think that his conclusions are really interesting:
The …

I was just recalling an incident some years ago when I volunteered with an open source project to help productize a portion of their codebase that was previously prototyped. I asked the lead if I …