It’s webinar time again and Jason, Dave and I are joined by Bob Nahrstadt of Next Creative Media to discuss some of the best practices for system design. We cover developing a process for system design and upgrades; asking the right questions and hiring the right consultant. There is a ton of good information here, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘technology’
Thriving in an Inter-Generational Setting Pt. 2
Last Friday, I started digging into the challenges that come with trying to have inter-generational communities sharing the same space and equipment. The first step is to look at technology needs through the lens of the other group as well as your own. Today, I’ll illustrate with some concrete examples of what that looks like. [...]
The Good Enough Principle
Shawn Wood, Experience Pastor at Seacost Church wrote a post a few weeks ago that I found very interesting. His topic: The Good Enough Principle. Later that week I read an article in Wired about the same thing. There seems to be a movement afoot to make things good enough. Now, if you’ve read this [...]
Thinking Ahead
I was reading Tony Morgan’s blog the other day as he was reviewing Andy Stanley’s new book, The Principle of the Path. One phrase in particular caught my mind, and it’s stuck with me ever since. It’s good advice for life to be sure; and it has particular importance for those of us charged with [...]
Helping Other Ministry Areas with Technology Pt. 2
In our last post, we started discussing the HEARRR method of assisting other ministry areas (especially other non-technical ministry areas) with technology. As a recap, the first three steps are Hear, Educate, Advise. Today we’ll pick up on with the Rs. Respond This is an important and often overlooked step. I should point out that [...]
Helping Other Ministry Areas with Technology
Ah, it feels good to be back! Having spent the better part of the last two weeks driving nearly 2,000 miles, unpacking everything we own and getting settled in a new place, I’m looking forward to diving back in to the technical arts. The break was nice, but now it’s great to be back at [...]
Technology Lumping
Somewhere out there you might have noticed that sound, lighting and video are different (with apologies to The Masked Engineer). In the professional world, audio guys hold little regard for “squints.” The lighting guys don’t really care if there’s enough light for the video, and the video guys, well they don’t like anyone. A slight [...]
Reaching Out
I’ve written about this before but this is a subject that bears repeating. Being a Tech Arts Director is a pretty lonely job sometimes. You might be the only one on your church staff who has any technical knowledge at all. Even if you work at a larger church with a tech staff, it’s hard [...]
Recruiting Tech Team Members
There are few activities that tend to strike fear into the heart of a technical arts director quite like recruiting for the tech team. Large-scale productions for Christmas & Easter? No sweat. Running ProPresenter and TD’ing the weekend (’cause my volunteer didn’t show up)? I can do that. Programming moving lights on the fly? In [...]
Technological Worship: Style or Substance
OK, I admit it. I crowdsourced this blog topic. The last few months have been really draining, and I’ve been running low on ideas (actually, I have tons of ideas, but they’re all half-baked). So, I turned to the Twitterverse for some suggestions. Today’s topic is courtesy of Mark (@soulfisher), one of our volunteer lighting [...]
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