This is a simple technology tip to help anyone setting up a multi-monitor office. This past year, the amount of home office set-ups has increased exponentially, and inclement weather this winter has forced even more to work from home in recent months. These situations inevitably include lots of tech issues, and our Service Desk has been seeing a lot of issues with how to correctly configure the settings for a multi-monitor set up.

A common complaint surrounding most churches’ relationships with their Church Management Software (ChMS) comes in some form of a lack of trust in the data contained in their system. One of the main reasons for keeping track of data for a church is to enable more intentional ministry. Needs can be known, tracked, and met, relationships can be cultivated, connections can be made.

Remote working is not new to any of us anymore. It’s simply the way things are and how the world works. And because we’re all remote, we understand the importance of being connected to your coworkers and working together in the most productive way. We feel like Microsoft Teams does the best job at this, plus it sweetens the deal by offering majorly discounted licensing for 501c3 organizations, which is great news for churches!

To understate the matter considerably, What a year it has been! We have endured political strife, social and racial unrest, and a COVID-19 epidemic that has wrought massive changes in the way we worship, work, shop, engage, connect, educate our children, and do just about everything else in our daily life. Understandably, many are eager to bid farewell to 2020 and put it firmly in the rearview mirror. It’s been challenging. And hard. And, in many cases, tragic.

A common issue that we’ve seen among our clients is best practices for communicating with larger groups of people. Often, there are simple and efficient solutions for these types of common problems, so today we want to share a quick tip that you can implement today to simplify communicating with your team.

According to the Marie Kondo method, if something doesn’t bring you joy, it’s time to toss it. While unfortunately this concept can’t apply to every aspect of your work life, when it comes to your job, applying a similar principle CAN potentially bring you joy.

The Cloud is a concept that is integral to today’s online world, especially in the realm of remote work, file storage and access, and the secure backup of data. While it really is a simple and incredibly helpful thing, often times it only takes a few seconds of talking about “syncing your files to the cloud” for people’s eyes to glaze over.