As IT professionals, it’s not enough to support our ministries and non-profits, we also have to exercise a degree of leadership.

In fact, I believe that support, a fancy word for service, is really a form of leadership at its core:

“The measure of a leader is not the number of people who serve the leader, but the number of people served by the leader.” ~ Adapted from a quote by John C. Maxwell.

I saw a note on a copy machine recently that read, “You could save us $n,000.00 per year if you print more originals from the printer instead of making copies with this copier.” This is leadership! This is a thoughtful IT person (or accountant?) who identified that making copies is far more expensive than printing duplicates.

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When I was younger I had a voracious appetite for learning. In fact, I still do. And I had a few web and IT skills to boot.

What I needed was an opportunity to use them. Why not Church?

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This battle has been waging for a long time and I’m just curious where most people in ministry sit.

So, are you a Intel fanboi or an AMD upstart? Which one do you prefer and why?

Answer in the comments… and be nice. No calling names or using the world “heretic.”

Go.

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Here’s a list of those that are helping to build this community strong.

Thanks so much guys!

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The biggest disaster that your organization could experience is a total collapse of your website services.

I don’t mean just a blackout of your website hosting because of a power outage but a complete loss because the actual hosting business disappeared.

Sounds nuts or impossible? Trust me it’s not. I’ve had it happen to me.

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If you’ve worked in IT then you know exactly what I’m talking about here: One of the easiest and yet most-obvious fixes for tons of computer issues is simply a hard restart of the actual computer.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve simply recommended:

Have you tried restarting your computer?

Hah. And, it works. But, I think there’s a “new” answer (or suggestion) that I’ve been using as well…

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I’m not sure how many people that follow me personally on Twitter (@Human3rror) actually geek out on stuff like this but let me assure you that I do.

Intel has announced an 8 Core Chipset: The Nehalem-EX.

*silence*

I still get excited about speed and power when it comes to hardware configs and rigs and all that jazz:

The processor will be targeted at four-socket servers, said Shannon Poulin, Xeon platform director at Intel. Each physical core will be able to run two threads simultaneously, giving the chip 64 virtual processing cores on servers.

Yikes.

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I’ll be the first to admit it: I’m a geek.

I love video games, cartoons, comic books, and pretty much anything the internet. I also like collecting action figures.

…

There, I said it.

So, what do you have around your desk area that would instantly proclaim “geek”? Do tell, do tell…

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When I was in IT it was all about the desktop. You know, the overpowered custom-built system with more monitors than we knew what to do with.

(Wait, this is still true…)

But, that was about a long time ago. The movement to mobile was inevitable and more IT environments are going “mobile” for more than just the size. There are innumerable benefits, and for those environments that have gone all the way they know how liberating it really can be.

Here are 7 great desktop replacement laptops that you could consider for your IT team’s needs:

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Quick Tuesday afternoon musing:

Does your church have an IT help desk?

We used to have one, I think. It was kind of cool, where people could walk up and drop off their computers, ask for advice, etc.

But, it disappeared a few months ago, and hasn’t resurfaced. I kind of miss it, even though it gave me a prettier view of the parking lot with their departure…

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