Comments on: What Technological Monster Are You Facing Today?

By: human3rror

human3rror — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:41:05 +0000

livestream and ustream can be expense…. did i mention 316 networks already?

By: @mikebone

@mikebone — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:37:28 +0000

I've got two:

1. trying to hook up another apple airport to my existing home network to boost the signal upstairs. I spent 4 hours, had to restore both several times, only to just try to get back to "normal". a waste of 4 hours. frustrating.

2. still investigating the best way for our church to stream our services on the cheap, with chat features that won't be disrupted by hooligans. livestream & ustream seem to be taking me only so far.

By: Graham Brenna

Graham Brenna — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:27:45 +0000

Two words… networked printers… need I say more?

By: human3rror

human3rror — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:50:04 +0000

elgg is good. i've blogged about it here. the rest are ok, not great.

By: GeorgeHicks

GeorgeHicks — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:46:46 +0000

Found an interesting article tonight about open source social networking software. I'm looking at Elgg right now... http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/the-5-best-open-sour...

By: Daniel_Berman

Daniel_Berman — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:27:53 +0000

Trying to get a XP SP3 to install on a computer with a botched installation of SP2

By: joannamuses

joannamuses — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:11:46 +0000

I would rule out facebook for those requirements. If you just need forums it is great because it is easy to use and almost everyone already has a facebook account so they don't need to do too much more to sign up. It doesn't have wiki or file sharing features so not what you need. You may want to look into Invision. http://www.invisionboard.com/ Seems like pretty solid forum software and includes the ability to upload files . I haven't used the blogging feature, but the website says it is possible to add it.

By: srtelle

srtelle — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:11:35 +0000

Buddypress is actually one of my monsters right now. We're trying out a build for our church and I'm trying to integrate a number of different things. It's sucking away all of my time and brain power. Since it's so new there isn't a great deal of "how-to" stuff out there.

However, it's all very customizable and based on WordPress. I like BOTH of these. We'll see how the experiment goes…

Hang in there, George! We're all figuring out how to leverage this social networking thing for the Kingdom together…

By: George Hicks

George Hicks — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:54:46 +0000

I’m tinkering with groups and ning. Check it here:

http://churchplantingtribe.ning.com/
http://grou.ps/churchplantingtribe

Ning is more stable, but charges for features like custom domains and ad removal. Groups has all the features I want and is free, but is really buggy right now. I haven’t figured out how to leverage Facebook to do what I want yet. I’ve tried groups and pages there without success…

I’ll try buddypress. Thanks!

By: human3rror

human3rror — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:42:05 +0000

George,

not dolphin. never! that software is bogus.

ning and groups does what you want out of the box... bbpress is just forums, and facebook... well, we all know what that is.

wat about buddypress.org?