18 Responses to “What Technological Monster Are You Facing Today?”

1. Jim

   Thursday, August 13, 2009 at 2:30 pm

   love that picture…i have customers that want a facebook page with apps-i've looked into it but it looks a little out of my league.

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   • human3rror

     Thursday, August 13, 2009 at 2:32 pm

     ahh. facebook apps…

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2. stephenbateman

   Thursday, August 13, 2009 at 2:39 pm

   I, for some reason, simply cannot understand Javascript or PHP.
   CSS and HTML are fine, but once it gets more programmy, things fall apart. idk, maybe it's my brain or something.

   Side note: what do you think about Adobe Flex? They're offering it for free to students, and I think it looks cool.

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   • human3rror

     Thursday, August 13, 2009 at 2:47 pm

     if you've got the time, would be cool to dive in… but, it'll take a lot of time.

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3. joannamuses

   Thursday, August 13, 2009 at 3:11 pm

   My technological monsters for the day are pretty boring. Got a CD player with the volume switch jammed on zero (and not budging) and an ipod that is not always responding to pushed buttons. Computer-wise, thunderbird continues to insist on downloading every one of the thirty thousand emails i have ever received. Given downloading this volume of data would almost definitely get me kicked off the network, its back to webmail i go.

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   • human3rror

     Thursday, August 13, 2009 at 3:15 pm

     not too bad!

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     • joannamuses

       Thursday, August 13, 2009 at 3:22 pm

       Might get someone else to try to get the CD player to work. Inevitably when you give an item like that to someone else to fix it starts working flawlessly making you look like an idiot. I think i'm willing to look like an idiot to have a working CD player again.

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4. George Hicks

   Thursday, August 13, 2009 at 3:25 pm

   Hi everyone. I want to build an online community of church planters and I'm considering several platforms:

   Ning – http://www.ning.com
   Grou.ps – http://www.grou.ps
   Facebook – http://www.facebook.com
   BBPress – http://www.bbpress.org
   Dolphine – http://www.boonex.com/products/dolphin/

   I'd like members to be able to communicate via online forums, publish blog entries, share files, collaborate via wiki, etc. The general idea is for the community to help each other out as they plant churches. The site should facilitate communication, encouragement, resource and knowledge sharing, etc.

   Can anyone guide me in the right direction?

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   • human3rror

     Thursday, August 13, 2009 at 3:42 pm

     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?

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   • joannamuses

     Thursday, August 13, 2009 at 4:11 pm

     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.

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   • GeorgeHicks

     Friday, August 14, 2009 at 12:46 am

     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...

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     • human3rror

       Friday, August 14, 2009 at 12:50 am

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

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5. George Hicks

   Thursday, August 13, 2009 at 11:54 am

   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!

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6. srtelle

   Thursday, August 13, 2009 at 4:11 pm

   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…

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7. Daniel_Berman

   Thursday, August 13, 2009 at 4:27 pm

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

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8. Graham Brenna

   Friday, August 14, 2009 at 4:27 am

   Two words… networked printers… need I say more?

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9. @mikebone

   Friday, August 14, 2009 at 4:37 pm

   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.

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   • human3rror

     Friday, August 14, 2009 at 4:41 pm

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

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