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3 Ways to Convince Your Penny-Pinching Pastor for More IT Resources

Your job is hard enough, right? You’ve got networks, servers, hardware, and software of all types to keep in check, not to mention managing successfully your relationships with everyone who can’t login to their email.

So having to deal with your needs with increasing the budget for IT resources and investments with a pastor or leader who won’t budge is just the cherry on top, right?

And although a penny-pinching management might be the biggest enemy of IT you know that information technology can also be a “bottomless pit” (which might lead to a fear of spending that is somewhat irrational).

In any case, here are 3 tips to help convince your “spending-conscious” pastor for more IT resources:

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Google Voice for Ministry

Google Voice is something that I’ve been using for the past few months and I’m pretty much sold out to it, even though it’s not a perfect solution by any stretch of the imagination.

Many people though are still unsure about what it even is. From Google themselves:

Google Voice is about giving you more control over your communications, through dozens of features — ranging from call screening to voicemail transcription to the ability to send and receive SMS by email.

Here’s a great intro vid of what Google Voice is:

Pretty neat, right?

In addition, here are some more videos that can help you discover how Google Voice can be effectively used by you (and your ministry):

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Weekly Top Commenters

Love comments. Love community. Love you.

Here’s some “Google Juice” for the Top Commenters this past week on ChurchCrunch!

You guys rock.

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Weekly Top Commenters

ChurchDrop is seriously getting some great conversations in the past week.

Love it. Here’s some “Google Juice” for the Top Commenters.

Word up.

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Weekly Top Commenters

Word up. Here’s some “Google Juice” for the Top Commenters of this past week on ChurchIT!

Thanks for being awesome. Keep it up!

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Weekly Top Commenters

I feel like it’s a healthy practice to promote those that have spent time on our properties by giving back a little “Google Juice.”

So, without further ado, here are this week’s Top Commenters on ChurchCreate!

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Styling Our Sharing Options, Please Vote on Your Choice!

Quick question out to the community: Which styling option would you prefer we use for our Social Sharing (Twitter, Facebook, Buzz, etc)?

We’ve got two options to choose from. Please let us know which one you’d like us to use:

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Ask 8BIT

It’s that time again. Word up.

This is our weekly Q and A session with the 8BIT Team. You can ask us anything and one of us will hook you up with an answer in the coming week.

Simple, right? Oh, and did we answer your question from last week? Let us know.

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Ministry & IT Dilemmas: Usage Policies and Personal Use

One of the largest (yet safest) frustrations working in big marketplace businesses is the fact that I was pretty much unable to use my work devices, laptops, and computers for personal use.

It simply was against policy and making an attempt to install personal apps, bypass network ports for specific site access, and “steal” time here and there were grounds for instant dismissal.

I’ll admit, I kind of liked it.

But in ministry this just isn’t really the case, generally speaking.

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