by Isaac Johnson | Jun 6, 2013 | Business, Churches, Information Technology, Missions, Nonprofit, Open Source
I’ve mentioned before that I have worked in churches, non-profit organizations, and NGOs. One thing that I’ve seen with astonishing regularity is organizations paying exorbitant amounts of money for basic and sometimes hideous websites. The contract...
by Isaac Johnson | Jun 3, 2013 | Business, Churches, Information Technology, Missions, Nonprofit, Open Source
Last Week I wrote about how to select the right hardware for your organization, this week is where the real fun begins though as we will be going through software options; specifically we tackle the various operating systems available to organizations today and what...
by Isaac Johnson | May 30, 2013 | Business, Churches, Information Technology, Missions, Nonprofit
A lot of managers, directors, and owners I meet have a lot of questions about choice of server, and rightly so! Once an organization hits a dozen or so employees a server is nearly mandatory for file storage, user account management, and any other business aspect that...
by Isaac Johnson | May 27, 2013 | Business, Churches, Information Technology, Missions, Nonprofit, Open Source
Being Proactive with your network is vital to preventing untold amounts of downtime. Imagine the time, cost, and headache saved if you already knew that hard drive was failing before all the data was lost, or how if you knew the moment that your email server’s...
by Isaac Johnson | May 21, 2013 | Business, Churches, Information Technology, Missions, Nonprofit, Open Source
When I became a chief information officer in early 2006, I had to start my organization’s IT department from the ground up with no actual budget to speak of. Unfortunately, given that the organization was located in China also meant that there were no valid...