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Jason Powell
Jason Powell is the Director of Information Technology at Granger Community Church (GCCWired.com) where he, a Sys Admin, and a small team of volunteers manage a network of over 200 computers and 40+ servers. Geeks for Jesus! :-)
Interests: gadgets, computers, auto racing, church, IT, autocrossing, Technology
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2016 National Church IT Network details annouced!
We just wrapped up the 2015 National Church IT Roundtable ... and with that announced the location and dates for our 2016 event! Add this to your calendar NOW! The biggest gathering of church IT and web/dev peeps will be... Continue reading
Posted Oct 11, 2015 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
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Microsoft Adds New Religious Exemption Clarification to Anti-Discrimination Policy
My buddy, Nick Nicholaou, announced last Friday, at the Church IT Roundtable, that Microsoft had changed their anti-discrimination policy language. And it's a GREAT change for religious organizations! Essentially, their policy used to say, to be eligible for non-profit/charity pricing,... Continue reading
Posted Oct 11, 2015 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
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2015 National Church IT Roundtable
Posted Sep 21, 2015 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
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2014 National Church IT & WebDev Conference Oct 22-24 - BE THERE!
What's the best way to learn IT & WebDev best practices as it relates to the Church/Ministry space? Attend the National Church IT Roundtable this October in Peoria, IL! Join 250+ Church staff and volunteers from across the country this... Continue reading
Posted Aug 25, 2014 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
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Addressing The Consumerization of IT aka GCC's Transition to Macs and Mobility - Part 6 - Is AppleCare worth the cost??
This is a continuation of a blog series I started back on April 2013. You may want to start reading there if you're new to this blog series. Part 1 Part 6 ... Mac Repairs and Extended AppleCare This week... Continue reading
Posted Aug 25, 2014 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
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Addressing The Consumerization of IT aka GCC's Transition to Macs and Mobility - Part 5
This is a continuation of a blog series I started back on April 2013. You may want to start reading there if you're new to this blog series. Part 1 Part 5 - Mac Hardware and Software Wow, it's hard... Continue reading
Posted Aug 22, 2014 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
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Roy - I explained that in paragraph 7 on the post.
Commented Dec 19, 2013 on HUGE news for Churches! Faith-based Organizations now Eligible for TechSoup discounts and Free Office365! at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
HUGE news for Churches! Faith-based Organizations now Eligible for TechSoup discounts and Free Office365!
Before joining the Church IT ranks 10 years ago, I was the IT Director for a large school system for four years. In that time, I became very familiar with TechSoup.org from chatting with my EDU IT peers. TechSoup offered crazy software discounts to non-profits even if quantities were limited. ...
Addressing The Consumerization of IT aka GCC's Transition to Macs and Mobility - Part 4
Here in part 4 I'll talk about our initial test phase and staff rollout. One of our big unknowns surrounded staff wanting to switch from Windows to Mac ... many having never touched a mac prior. What kind of intial... Continue reading
Posted Oct 8, 2013 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
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Yeah - I think it's a bit misleading to say it's donated software then you find out you have to pay an admin fee to TechSoup. So I'm just going to call it a purchase since that's what it actually is :-)
Commented Oct 8, 2013 on TechSoup's Microsoft Nonprofit Licensing Things To Note at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
TechSoup's Microsoft Nonprofit Licensing Things To Note
Continuing from my prior post about the huge TechSoup Microsoft announcement for Churches ... Here are a few nuggets that I've found helpful to note. Mainly I'm putting them here on my blog so I can refer back to them in the future ... if others benefit that's a BONUS! ;-) The limitations of the...
TechSoup's Microsoft Nonprofit Licensing Things To Note
Continuing from my prior post about the huge TechSoup Microsoft announcement for Churches ... Here are a few nuggets that I've found helpful to note. Mainly I'm putting them here on my blog so I can refer back to them... Continue reading
Posted Oct 3, 2013 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
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Fall 2013 National Church IT Roundtable - 4 weeks away!
Time is flying! In just 4 weeks the Fall 2013 National Church IT Roundtable will kickoff at Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, KS! Have you registered yet? Dude, it's only $75 and that includes your all your meals from... Continue reading
Posted Sep 23, 2013 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
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HUGE news for Churches! Faith-based Organizations now Eligible for TechSoup discounts and Free Office365!
Posted Sep 23, 2013 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
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Addressing The Consumerization of IT aka GCC's Transition to Macs and Mobility - Part 3
Continuing from Part 1 and Part 2 ... Well, this is really a continuation from part1 since part 2 went in a different direction than I planned :-) To quickly refresh ... Part1 was the proposal I made to my... Continue reading
Posted May 3, 2013 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
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Eric,
Funny timing. I've been doing some research on loading win7 onto an air :-)
Hate to give up drive space though to do the bootcamp dual boot.
Commented Apr 16, 2013 on Addressing The Consumerization of IT aka GCC's Transition to Macs and Mobility - Part 2 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
Addressing The Consumerization of IT aka GCC's Transition to Macs and Mobility - Part 2
Continuing from Part 1 ... One of the questions that arose from the Part 1 post was how we arrived at the $2100 figure. It actually ended up being $2300. This amount would cover the purchase of a 15" macbook pro with 4GB ram, 7200rpm 750GB drive, 3yr applecare, and extra power adapter (for hom...
Addressing The Consumerization of IT aka GCC's Transition to Macs and Mobility - Part 2
Posted Apr 15, 2013 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
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Towards macs? Not at all! I had one one prior to our transition. What I dislike, and still do, are the mac zealots that treat it as a religion vs a computing platform. Those are the people I want to smack around ... especially anytime I get kernal panics, endless spinning beachballs, etc
Commented Apr 13, 2013 on Addressing The Consumerization of IT aka GCC's Transition to Macs and Mobility - Part 1 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
Addressing The Consumerization of IT aka GCC's Transition to Macs and Mobility - Part 1
Hard to believe it's been 2 years since the below email was written which put into motion perhaps the most significant IT transition at GCC to date. Up to this point, TechOps didn't officially support macs. Sure we'd help the few mac users on staff as best we could, but it was best effort only...
Addressing The Consumerization of IT aka GCC's Transition to Macs and Mobility - Part 1
Hard to believe it's been 2 years since the below email was written which put into motion perhaps the most significant IT transition at GCC to date. Up to this point, TechOps didn't officially support macs. Sure we'd help the... Continue reading
Posted Apr 12, 2013 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
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Church IT Network 2013 Schedule = 2 National Events in Feb and Oct
2013 SCHEDULE Unveiled! In efforts to move our big National event from Spring to Fall (get away from Easter and Spring break and unpleasant weather in Northern States) we’re having 2 National events next year! National Spring 2013 event >>... Continue reading
Posted Nov 16, 2012 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
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Microsoft's Open License Charity / Non-Profit Retail Price List
[edit 11/17/12 - removed https and link seems to work more reliably] Microsoft has moved their charity / non-profit price list from it's prior location. Took me a little digging, but here's the new URL for those intereted: http://mspartner.microsoft.com/en/us/Pages/Licensing/Downloads/open-license-charity-estimated-retail-price-list.aspx As... Continue reading
Posted Nov 16, 2012 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
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Registration OPEN for Fall 2012 Church IT Roundtables!
Unlike our National Spring events where everyone meets in one location, in the fall we do regional events at multiple locations across the country to keep travel costs low as possible. Regional event registration is just $35.00! Where are the... Continue reading
Posted Sep 19, 2012 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
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He-Man and an IT All Staff Email
Do most staff simply delete the IT emails you send out? Certainly your emails are important or you'd not be sending them out right? Perhaps you just need to make them a little more entertaining...something people look forward to because... Continue reading
Posted Aug 3, 2012 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
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Join The New Church IT Community Platform!
Posted May 9, 2012 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
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Apple Quietly Introduces Accidental Damage Coverage: AppleCare+
Posted Mar 8, 2012 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
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Surprise IT Volunteer Award for Tom Templin
Posted Mar 1, 2012 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
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Church Techies Biggest Loser #7 Signup!
Posted Feb 15, 2012 at Jason Powell - Church IT and Other Musings
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