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In response to: Ministry Burn-Out
wallstreetforex [Visitor] · http://www.wallstreetforex.eu
The technical ministry is perhaps the one ministry area where it’s easy to hide from spiritual discussions. Yet this is robbing them of personal growth, a closer relationship with the God who loves them and a stronger sense of mission and purpose for the tech team.I would like to thank you for the efforts you have made in writing this article. I am hoping the same best work from you in the future as well
Permalink 05/12/09 @ 07:35 In response to: "Change? Who, Me?" - An Honest Conversation
Patrick Sullivan Jr. [Visitor] · http://skipmoen.com
> I don’t know where we’re going, but I’m learning that’s OK.
Anthony, I personally gained quite a bit of insight from this article.
http://skipmoen.com/2009/04/21/row-your-boat/
Shalom,
Patrick
Skip's Tech Geek
Anthony, I personally gained quite a bit of insight from this article.
http://skipmoen.com/2009/04/21/row-your-boat/
Shalom,
Patrick
Skip's Tech Geek
Permalink 05/11/09 @ 17:59 In response to: "Change? Who, Me?" - An Honest Conversation
Tanny Santamaria [Visitor]
Thanks for posting this. This is exactly my journey for a year now. Wow, what a great reminder. Thank you
Permalink 05/11/09 @ 14:32 In response to: "Change? Who, Me?" - An Honest Conversation
Tobey [Visitor] · http://www.nacdb.com
Change is hard Anthony, however the journey can be so rewarding. Just trust that you are not on the journey alone. Not only is God with you, but friends will be there praying for you as well.
Permalink 05/11/09 @ 13:58 In response to: "Change? Who, Me?" - An Honest Conversation
ARJWright [Visitor] · http://antoinerjwright.com
Wow; I just ned to say wow. I'll be praying for you, but man if you didn't throw a boulder my way as well.
Thank you for your honesty and transparency. Change requires trust and humility. Thank you.
Thank you for your honesty and transparency. Change requires trust and humility. Thank you.
Permalink 05/11/09 @ 13:39 In response to: How Carbon Copy Cloner Saved My Mac
Steve [Visitor] · http://www.leaningtowerofbabel.com
I have used CCC for many years now. I regularly change computers (now laptops) from year to year. Oftentimes I decide I'd rather build my new laptop from scratch rather than keep all the old garbage that might be laying around that would get copied with a migration. So I use CCC to build a copy of the drive and then I'm happy to blow away the old machine, sell it, build the new one from scratch. And if I find that I forgot anything I can just boot up from the old hard drive and grab it.
Its a great program and always useful!
Steve
Its a great program and always useful!
Steve
Permalink 05/09/09 @ 21:33 In response to: How Carbon Copy Cloner Saved My Mac
Anthony D. Coppedge [Member] · http://www.anthonycoppedge.com
Patrick,
If I'm wrong, I'll accept that, but my experience and understanding is that I can't take a Ghost of my PC (like the one in my office) and run it on the PC in our homeschool room due to hardware differences.
Because Apple has more-or-less similar hardware in their computers, going from Mac to Mac is a very different experience than from going from PC to PC since there are literally millions of possible hardware configurations (sound cards, video cards, motherboards, BIOS, etc.). I can make BACKUPS of my PC (and I do) but I can't run my one of my PC's backup drive as the boot drive from another PC with different hardware and expect it to work.
That's why I made the statement about Carbon Copy Cloner being so effective on the Mac platform.
- Anthony
If I'm wrong, I'll accept that, but my experience and understanding is that I can't take a Ghost of my PC (like the one in my office) and run it on the PC in our homeschool room due to hardware differences.
Because Apple has more-or-less similar hardware in their computers, going from Mac to Mac is a very different experience than from going from PC to PC since there are literally millions of possible hardware configurations (sound cards, video cards, motherboards, BIOS, etc.). I can make BACKUPS of my PC (and I do) but I can't run my one of my PC's backup drive as the boot drive from another PC with different hardware and expect it to work.
That's why I made the statement about Carbon Copy Cloner being so effective on the Mac platform.
- Anthony
Permalink 05/09/09 @ 18:38 In response to: How Carbon Copy Cloner Saved My Mac
Patrick Fowler [Visitor] · http://www.journeymanproject.org
Dear Anthony...another incorrect PC v. Mac comparison. I use the built in windows backup utility to save my system to an external drive all the time...and just cloned my harddrive to a larger disc to add a few 100gb's to my current Laptop. The only difference? I used a utility provided by Microsoft as part of their operating systems since Windows Me, and if I didn't like the Windows option, I could have used 100 other free options, like DriveImage XML, which can run without installing onto your operating system, thanks to Daily Cup of Tech.
Permalink 05/09/09 @ 09:37 In response to: How Carbon Copy Cloner Saved My Mac
Mike Sessler [Visitor] · http://www.churchtecharts.org/blog
I'll second (third?) the recommendation for CCC. I've been using it for 8-9 months now, and having a cloned backup of my server drive saved me 2 days of server rebuild when the main drive went south.
I have been using CCC to clone the iMac we use for ProPresenter for some time as well. I kick it up a notch, though. I partitioned a 750 Gig drive into 2 roughly equal partitions. The first is used for Time Machine--this gives me incremental backups in case someone deletes a file during Sunday's build. The second is for CCC. The entire iMac is cloned so if it dies, I can connect the drive to my MacBookPro, boot from that and be back up in just a few minutes.
I also use CCC on my server to create incremental, complete clones of my boot drives. Because CCC can create and clone to disk images, you can save several copies of your drive on an external. I wrote about it here: http://www.churchtecharts.org/Blog/archives/900
Glad you're able to keep working--hopefully the new MBP arrives soon!
I have been using CCC to clone the iMac we use for ProPresenter for some time as well. I kick it up a notch, though. I partitioned a 750 Gig drive into 2 roughly equal partitions. The first is used for Time Machine--this gives me incremental backups in case someone deletes a file during Sunday's build. The second is for CCC. The entire iMac is cloned so if it dies, I can connect the drive to my MacBookPro, boot from that and be back up in just a few minutes.
I also use CCC on my server to create incremental, complete clones of my boot drives. Because CCC can create and clone to disk images, you can save several copies of your drive on an external. I wrote about it here: http://www.churchtecharts.org/Blog/archives/900
Glad you're able to keep working--hopefully the new MBP arrives soon!
Permalink 05/09/09 @ 08:47 In response to: How Carbon Copy Cloner Saved My Mac
Zak Mussig [Visitor]
Carbon Copy Cloner is a great app, and I've been using it for a couple years as a video editor before moving into a video production staff slot at The Journey.
Mike Bombich (who makes CCC) is a fellow St. Louisan, so if you find the app useful, please throw him a bone (and by bone I mean monetary compensation) via his website. http://www.bombich.com/software/tipjar.html
Good recommendation Anthony!
Mike Bombich (who makes CCC) is a fellow St. Louisan, so if you find the app useful, please throw him a bone (and by bone I mean monetary compensation) via his website. http://www.bombich.com/software/tipjar.html
Good recommendation Anthony!
Permalink 05/08/09 @ 16:55 In response to: Twitter AND Yammer
Anthony D. Coppedge [Visitor] · http://www.anthonycoppedge.com/blogs
Yeah, I said that in the second-to-last paragraph. :)
Permalink 05/08/09 @ 10:15 In response to: How Apple Got It Wrong
Greg Johnson [Visitor] · http://www.faithhighway.com
That is rough! I was looking forward to your session at WFX. I'll stop by and see how things turned out.
Permalink 05/07/09 @ 14:58 In response to: How Apple Got It Wrong
wvpv [Visitor] · http://sprignaturemoves.com
you should submit your very well-written post to consumerist.com and see what happens. Or do an executive e-mail carpet bomb as described on the site.
Permalink 05/06/09 @ 20:02 In response to: How Apple Got It Wrong
Anthony D. Coppedge [Member] · http://www.anthonycoppedge.com
Sean,
If it were only one person! I had three (including a supervisor) in Apple Care assure me that the shipment would be this week and here by today or tomorrow (at this point). The problem, I think, is simple to solve: if there's a customization (CTO), their software should put up a flag that says "ship date extended" or something of that nature.
Yes, each person does impact the whole. I didn't share the full series of events and multiple conversations that were sometimes at odds with what other employees were telling me. I shared as briefly as I could about the overall experience and left out some more of the headaches since they were not necessary for this blog post.
I'm hoping there's a good ending to this disappointing situation!
If it were only one person! I had three (including a supervisor) in Apple Care assure me that the shipment would be this week and here by today or tomorrow (at this point). The problem, I think, is simple to solve: if there's a customization (CTO), their software should put up a flag that says "ship date extended" or something of that nature.
Yes, each person does impact the whole. I didn't share the full series of events and multiple conversations that were sometimes at odds with what other employees were telling me. I shared as briefly as I could about the overall experience and left out some more of the headaches since they were not necessary for this blog post.
I'm hoping there's a good ending to this disappointing situation!
Permalink 05/06/09 @ 17:15 In response to: How Apple Got It Wrong
Sean Sperte [Visitor] · http://seansperte.com
Sounds like a simple oversight by a low-level Apple Care support agent that you're projecting onto the whole of the company. (They, obviously, failed to recognize the fact that a BTO replacement "part" does indeed ship from China, not the center in California or Texas.)
It's a reminder of how everyone single person in an organization represented the rest of the organization as a whole. Perhaps we should all audit our usher, greeter and guest relation ministries more often than we do.
It's a reminder of how everyone single person in an organization represented the rest of the organization as a whole. Perhaps we should all audit our usher, greeter and guest relation ministries more often than we do.
Permalink 05/06/09 @ 17:05 In response to: How Apple Got It Wrong
Kevin Purcell [Visitor] · http://www.christ-tech.com
Ouch! I feel for you. Sadly for consumers Apple is not the only company to fail in the area of customer service. It seems the norm rather than the exception these days. Hope it comes early!
Permalink 05/06/09 @ 15:45 In response to: Free Easter Viral Marketing For Your Church
Phillip Gibb [Visitor] · http://synapticlight.com/
I am beginning to promote social media at our church, and leading the charge so to speak. But there are only a select few that feel they need to use twitter and even some that do don't see the benefit.
hmmm, but getting there - and my community group is setting the example :-)
hmmm, but getting there - and my community group is setting the example :-)
Permalink 04/26/09 @ 13:50 In response to: Techies that Hide from Ministry
Rob Connelly [Visitor] · http://blog.connellyaudio.com
It is so vital the tech-types not be neglected spiritually. and they (I) do like to hide. Modeling a connected tech-E lifestyle helps too- showing them that technology is way more fun when we do it together and more importantly as a part of the overall life of the Church. Not in a tech-cave!!
Permalink 04/19/09 @ 11:36 In response to: Music and Tech Training in Churches
Rob Connelly [Visitor] · http://blog.connellyaudio.com
Its always difficult to know what the balance should be with training. Since excellence is our goal to honor God, the more training the better. But if we keep volunteers away from their families or have them coming home from 10 hour workdays and not spending family time in favor of improving their tech skills, then we are not being consistent with our family based values as The Church. Each local Church probably should prayerfully seek the right balance for the unique situation.
One great tool I've used (for those of us below the digidesign live poverty line) is a digital multi-track recorder that allows multi-track playback of actual (sometimes edited) service audio for mixing practice when the stress factor is not there. Works great for teaching mixing to beginners as the "traffic control" (cues) part of the job is not something that must be worried about.
One great tool I've used (for those of us below the digidesign live poverty line) is a digital multi-track recorder that allows multi-track playback of actual (sometimes edited) service audio for mixing practice when the stress factor is not there. Works great for teaching mixing to beginners as the "traffic control" (cues) part of the job is not something that must be worried about.
Permalink 04/19/09 @ 11:30 In response to: Free Easter Viral Marketing For Your Church
anthony thompson [Visitor] · http://iHateChurch.com
great insight and communication is so necessary. saw your twitter post about social media/church ... how much you wanna unload that bad boy for?
keep it up, good on yah. http://iHateChurch.com/blog
keep it up, good on yah. http://iHateChurch.com/blog
Permalink 04/17/09 @ 11:01 Use the search box above to find stuff on my blog.
My name is Anthony D. Coppedge. I'm a follower of Jesus and I help ministries leverage technology and communicate with a digitally-infused culture. I'm passionate about this, so that makes me a Technology & Communications Evangelist.
To find out more about me, feel free to download my resumé.
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I attend and volunteer at Gateway Church in Southlake, TX and love it!
If I'm not at Gateway during a weekend, it's probably because I'm consulting with other churches across North America. I love what I do!
My consulting with churches is usually (but not always) based either on weekend trips, training staff & volunteers or on projects for technology design or upgrades. Most importantly, I love to equip, challenge and encourage the leaders and volunteers of the churches I'm privileged to work with.
It's not about the tech; it's about the people.
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Other Sites I Enjoy
Geeks & God - matt farina and rob feature with a yummy podcast.
Mike Walker Creative - mike walker - mike's a creative guru. I served under him @ fellowship church back in the day.
David Drinnon - is the genius behind some creative development and IT at First Baptist, Houston, TX
Murphy24p - Steve Murphy - video dude @ seacost church and a great, thought-provoking writer.
marksnewton.com - mark s. newton - the only I.T. guy i know who uses a Mac. Yes, he's that cool.
JasonPowell.net - jason powell from granger - I.T. freak of nature
AllTechKnow - adam callender from granger - great site!
Church Tech Arts - mike sessler's insights and guru-ness
CCA Blog - the copyright queen's blog
Collide Magazine - if this mag was any better, i'd explode
WorshipHouseMedia.com - the uber-site for almost all video-related media content!
Church Media Group - a phenomenal resource for church communications
churchmarketingsucks.com - frustrate. educate. motivate.
Jim Walton - a techie's heart
Apple - need i say more?
About Anthony Coppedge
I'm a church media consultant, author, speaker and technology geek. I have been or currently am a featured columnist for Church Production Magazine, Worship Facilities Magazine, Outreach Magazine, Technologies for Worship Magazine, Religious Product News, Christian AV Magazine, Sound and Video Contractor and Lifeway.com's Technology Channel. I also write sporadically for other secular and Christian publications.
I am also an Adjunct Faculty member and instructor for ICIA (International Communications Industry Association) as well as an instructor and on the Technical Advisory Board for the Worship Facilities Expo and MinistryTech.
Anthony Coppedge Consulting is a firm dedicated to helping churches think, plan and embrace a holistic media and communications mindset.
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