Church IT Podcast Episode 9 - all about IT Volunteers

If you lead or are trying to build an IT volunteer team consider Thursday's episode 9 a must listen podcast.  It's an hour and a half fully devoted to discussing volunteers in IT ... of course most of the talking points work equally as well in any ministry role.

There were some new "faces" in the audience from Willow Creek and Saddleback ... and James from Agile Ministry stopped by for the first time with some great insight given his background in volunteer team building.  Also note that James has a free ebook on his site you'll want to read ...

"Maximize your ministry team and recruit volunteers with this practical, easy-to-read eBook. Seven chapters, each containing a variety of ways to grow your existing ministry or help you jumpstart a new ministry!"

I want to also extend a special thanks to:
Tom Templin - one of our uber volunteers, who shared his thoughts from a volunteers prospective.
Kim Volheim - Kim leads hundreds of volunteers in the creative and technical arts at GCC and shared some great insight based on his experiences.

If anyone would be willing to capture the highlights from episode 9 please shot 'em to me.  There are some great nuggets in there.

** Our next interactive podcast will be Thursday, June 21st at 2pm EDT (-4GMT) ... I think this time 'round I'd like to just make it an open forum.  Bring your questions and we'll try to answer them.  So start making your list ... from VM's, to help desk, to budget, to macs, to web hosts ... bring your questions!

I've also placed a dynamic talkshoe player on my blog so you can listen to past podcasts, see when the next one will be held, and click on the next episode link to easily join the next talkcast ... all without having to find it on talkshoe.com ... it's pretty slick ... I've embedded the code into this blog post below as well (hopefully it will show up in RSS readers)

If you'd like to place the church IT podcast player on your blog/website feel free to do so.  Here's the simple code snippet to use:

<!--Copy code below-->

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.talkshoe.com/resources/scriptsLib/tsBadges.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">TSDynamicBadge160I('6983');
//TalkShoe only supports one dynamic badge per web page.
</script>

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Comments

[kevin]

Jason,

Thanks for this. I couldn't make it on Thursday, but catching it on Talk Shoe was excellent.

[Micah Webner]

Hi Jason,

I've been gleaning good things (especially the VMware stuff) from your blog for a while. Thanks! I listened to this podcast, and was really amazed. This is awesome stuff, and other than struggling to hear a couple of the people on your speaker phone, I was very pleased with Talkshoe's sound quality. I'll be passing the link on to our head IT guy at church.

As head of our sound and lighting ministry, I'm one of those IT-professional-by-day tech arts volunteers you talked about. For the first few years it was a relief to have church be the one place I could go where people didn't ask me computer questions. (Our church IT staff is completely volunteer, btw.) I have since found my niche, doing a little network consulting, maintaining the firewall, and slowly developing a portal that might actually go into production some day. I can really relate to the ownership factor you guys were talking about. It feels good to be doing something IT-related at church, yet not be responsible for the overall network administration.

I'll be back for more podcasts - maybe even live if I can squeeze it in between the duties of my day job. :-)

Micah Webner
Tech Arts Volunteer
Cornerstone Church of Highland, MI