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Does Your Church Have an IT Help Desk?

Posted by John Saddington on Mar 2, 2010

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…

If your church does have an IT Help Desk, take a picture, post it on your blog, and then link it in the comments.

I’ll make a pretty mosaic of them all and we can be even more geeky than we currently are… … … … wait a sec…

Hope you’re having a great Tuesday. We’re almost half-way there…

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John Saddington

John is the Chief Editor @ The 8BIT Network and Senior Blog Junkie here at ChurchIT. He enjoys Triple-Tall Americanos, developing Wordpress Themes, and a few other Random Things.

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23 Responses to “Does Your Church Have an IT Help Desk?”

  1. Nathan Edwards
    Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 4:18 pm

    #hmmINeedToDoSomethingGeekyToo

    No IT at all at my church at uni or at home really :(

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  2. Kevin
    Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 4:40 pm

    My church outsources IT…from what I hear, it’s awful.

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  3. Eric
    Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 4:50 pm

    I’m the only “IT” person on staff, should I just take a picture of my desk? lol. It’s funny because we’re a church with 3 campuses and a large tech/media program. While we’ve kept up technology wise, we haven’t in our IT info structure.

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    • John Saddington
      Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 4:59 pm

      you win! we want pics of that desk.

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      • Eric
        Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 8:59 am

        http://drp.ly/wgYbZ

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        • John Saddington
          Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 9:21 am

          dude. that’s so epic.

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          • Eric
            Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 10:07 am

            I know.. isn’t that a sweet flat-screen monitor? lol. Actually, it’s not bad because I get to pioneer some of this stuff, and my attention to details will end up paying off as I do so. Just a way to use the way God created me to help further his kingdom.

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  4. Stuart Dyckhoff
    Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 6:27 pm

    Would love to have a helpdesk but we simply aren’t big enough to warrant one.

    Instead it’s me on my mobile or via email :)

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  5. Jmayhak
    Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 7:31 pm

    That’s a cool idea and something I haven’t really thought about.

    I would be afraid to start something like that at my church because of the types of problems people would come to you with….”can you make my computer faster?”

    I think it’s a great idea though. Just to have some place that people who have no idea what to do and can’t afford or don’t want to pay the geek squad can go for help.

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  6. Sam
    Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 10:10 pm

    No physical help desk per se but just tonight I was working on setting up Spiceworks to address some of the needs we have (church with 6 full time office staff and about 20 computers on site).

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    • John Saddington
      Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 10:48 pm

      hehe. cool.

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    • Stuart
      Thursday, March 4, 2010 at 3:18 am

      Spiceworks is da bomb (as my youf would say) …

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  7. Travis Fish
    Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 3:18 pm

    I love how epic the comments get once their are a few replies. Its like a pyramid. :D

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    • John Saddington
      Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 3:20 pm

      pauhahfdhsfalk;fjl;sakdjf ;lksadjfkdsa
      fjas

      puaha.

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      • Nathan Edwards
        Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 5:02 pm

        Sorry… no speakee Klingon

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  8. Van Klimetz
    Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 10:36 pm

    IT, what’s that?

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  9. evan irianov
    Thursday, March 4, 2010 at 5:24 am

    What is the job-description or activities of an IT help desk in church?
    may i know?

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