Information Technology
Information Technology includes hardware, software, IT security, worship technology … yeah, pretty much everything that’s expensive!
Recordings of the XP-Seminar?
Saturday, August 18, 2018 Hey Fletch … I’m a new XP and would love to listen to past sessions of the XP-Seminar. Do you record them? DRF—One year we purchased some thumb drives that had [...]
Do I Need to Register for XPastor Articles?
Saturday, June 9, 2018 Hey Fletch …Good day! There seems to be a technical glitch in signing up to your awesome website. When wanting to register, it keeps bringing up an error, as if [...]
Legal Issues with Songs on a Church Website
Wednesday, June 6, 2018 Hey Fletch … We live-stream our worship service and also have some recorded worship songs on our website. Someone asked me if that is legal. Thoughts? DRF—That is a huge [...]
Picture Scaling on Social Media
Monday, May 28, 2018 Hey Fletch … At the risk of coming across as a jerk, although I hope not, I did want to throw a suggestion your way. I’ve noticed your “Hey Fletch” [...]
Best Practices for Church Apps
Friday, April 13, 2018 Hey Fletch … There are several good articles on XPastor.org related to website best practices. I am looking for one related to Apps for churches. Apple has changed the rules [...]
Live Translation, Part 2
Friday, March 9, 2018 Hey Fletch … In a February 6, 2018 “Hey Fletch” column I saw the question: Is anyone out there using a system that allows a church to broadcast a Spanish [...]
Passwords, Computers and Security
Thursday, March 1, 2018 Hey Fletch … I can’t log into XPastor to get the stuff that I purchased. Can you help? DRF—Many of us have several email addresses, such as church, personal and [...]
Finding Über-Techs
February 2, 2018 Hey Fletch … We need some über-techs for a short project. Are there super-users or trainers on the following platforms that we could pay to write a key stroke script? The [...]
Criteria for a Usable Website
January 30, 2018 Hey Prof … I’m in XPastor’s class on Church Communication—Ops 102 and doing the assignment on church websites. Here are the criteria that I’m using to evaluate a usable website: Staff, [...]
Technical Director and Tech Engineer
January 28, 2018 Hey Dr. Fletcher … I’m a pastor in charge of media ministry in our church in Africa. Please, is there a job description for a technical team, video team and multimedia [...]
Website Not Scaling Graphics
January 21, 2018 Hey Fletch … We are having some website trouble. It looks great on a desktop monitor but some of our pages are awful on a tablet or cell. Can you take [...]
Cell Phone Policy
January 19, 2018 Hey David … I'm working on our church’s cell phone policy and wondering if you have any resources that address that? DRF—Here is some policy thoughts on that: “Cell phones are [...]
Simple Steps to Online Safety
Malware. Ransomware. Identity and data theft. Phishing. Corporate account takeovers. Denial of service attacks. As recent headlines illustrate, cyber attacks are a real and growing risk for all organizations. It’s no longer a question of [...]
Free E-Book on Church Automation
Neil Miller and KiSSFLOW have just released an e-book, The Beginner’s Guide to Church Automation.” He says that "Automation can be a big step for some churches, but these questions shouldn’t stop you from experimenting with [...]
Copier Leasing and Negotiation Tips
As an attorney, the vast majority of business and church executives I talk to dread their copier lease expiring as they must deal with leasing new ones. Recently, we helped a church with a multiple [...]
Mobile Phones and Online Giving
With 87% of the U.S. adult population now carrying mobile phones, (52% of them internet-enabled smartphones), people are changing the way they buy things. According to a survey recently released by the Federal Reserve Bank, 15% [...]
Seven Questions to Ask About a Content Management System
This year’s hurricanes mostly “missed” us, but our basement flooded anyway. Days later I sat absorbed in my computer monitor, buried up to my eyeballs in search results and browser tabs. Search by search, each [...]
The Role of Technology in a “Do More with Less” Environment
The dichotomy churches are experiencing during tough economic times creates an interesting set of challenges. On one hand, people are either finding their way back to church looking for help, guidance and answers or they [...]
Webcasting Church Services
Imagine holding Sunday services with an unlimited number of available seats. Imagine those seats being accessible to anyone, anywhere in the United States or world. Surprisingly, these days it’s easy to turn those dreams into [...]