by isaac | Jul 24, 2023 | Churches, Information Technology, Missions, Nonprofit
I have a confession: I’ve always hated virtual private networks (VPNs). They’ve been popular in tech for a very long time, but to me a VPN always seemed to be a kludge solution… even in the heyday of on-premise computing… now, with it making so...
by isaac | Jul 21, 2023 | Churches, Information Technology, Missions, Nonprofit, PDPA
There are many legitimate concerns about personal data being leaked via AI tools. This week at Microsoft Inspire, Microsoft announced a move to solve that with the release of Microsoft Bing Chat for Enterprise and has made it immediately available as part of the...
by isaac | Jul 10, 2023 | Churches
So Meta, owners of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, released a new social media app this week called “Threads” that is amassing users by the millions per day. At this point, you are probably wondering “good grief, another one, does my church need...
by isaac | Jul 3, 2023 | Churches, Information Technology, Nonprofit
I don’t know about you, but I don’t make all that many phone calls these days. Still, having a phone is just not optional for a church. I’m not a fan of old-fashioned land lines and PBX systems: they are old, they are expensive, they only work in the...
by isaac | Jun 26, 2023 | Churches
Every now and then I’ll jump onto “Christian Twitter” which is mostly a collection of people taking the most polarized Christian positions possible and sprinkling in anger, snark, and rage-bait. None of it is particularly fruitful, it mostly just...
