Missions Technology for Missions Technologists

No Ties Allowed Podcast 018 – 2012-05-18

by tr.knight on 05/18/2012 | 0

Welcome to the eighteenth No Ties Allowed Podcast with your hosts Tim Young, Roy Campbell and a special guest.  Tom is busy with finals this week at Taylor and T.R. is away from the office leading the ICI Leaders in IT Summit.

SHOW NOTES:

Discussion with Our Guest

Our special guest is using David as a pseudonym.  He works for an agency that produces radio, television broadcasts and print media in the Dari language for Afghani’s around the world.

Dari version of Jesus film.  Magdalena – Released from Shame – Jesus film for women – http://www.magdalenamovie.com

Helped translate Bible into Dari Paratext
http://www.afghanradio.org
http://www.afghanbibles.org
http://www.afghanctv.org
http://www.pamirmedia.org

Favorite Applications and Software:

  • None discussed this time.

Reading this Week:

Prayer Requests:

  • ICCM in Colorado Springs
  • Tim and Patricia traveling
  • Tom’s wife having some health issues
  • David is hosting a workshop on interpersonal dealings next week
  • David is looking for more people to help with Afghan work
  • David is looking for help with video editing / dubbing

 

 

Thanks to Free Royalty Free Music by DanoSongs.com for our into and exit music.

 

 

No Ties Allowed Podcast 017 – 2012-04-27

by tr.knight on 04/27/2012 | 3

Welcome to the seventeenth No Ties Allowed Podcast with your hosts T.R. Knight, Tim Young and special guest David Housholder.  Our discussion this session focuses on Bible software for computers and mobile devices.

SHOW NOTES:

Discussion with Our Guest

David Housholder
DocDEH@gmail.com
Twitter is @docdeh.
Web: http://Housholder.msites.com
With Interserve USA (http://interserveusa.org) as Director of US ethnic ministries

Bible Software of Interest to David

STEP – Standard Template for Electronic Publishing – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STEP_Library

Explore Passages – http://www.explorepassages.com/

Global Recordings Network – http://globalrecordings.net/

Favorite Applications and Software:

Reading this Week:

Prayer Requests:

  • ICCM in Colorado Springs – Registration is open
  • Tim and Patricia traveling
  • Tom’s wife having some health issues

 

 

Thanks to Free Royalty Free Music by DanoSongs.com for our into and exit music.

 

 

No Ties Allowed Podcast 016 – 2012-04-12

by tr.knight on 04/12/2012 | 3

Welcome to the sixteenth No Ties Allowed Podcast with your hosts T.R. Knight, Roy Campbell, Tom Nurkkala and Tim Young.  We talk about a lot of random tech news from the past few weeks and have a focused discussed on alternative funding opportunities for missions technology projects.

SHOW NOTES:

Technology News

Favorite Applications and Software:

  • So busy recently that none of us have tried anything new.

Reading this Week:

Prayer Requests:

  • ICCM in Colorado Springs – Registration is open
  • Taylor Campus
  • Earthquake in Indian Ocean

 

 

Thanks to Free Royalty Free Music by DanoSongs.com for our into and exit music.

 

No Ties Allowed Podcast 015 – 2012-03-21

by tr.knight on 03/22/2012 | 1

Welcome to the fifteenth No Ties Allowed Podcast with your hosts Roy Campbell and Tim Young with special guests Greg and Dorinda Beeley.   T.R .and Tom were away spiritually supporting family and friends.  Much of the focus this podcast is on Lightsys and its ministries along with ICCM in Colorado Springs.

SHOW NOTES:

Technology News

LightSys

Favorite Applications and Software:

Reading this Week:

Prayer Requests:

  • ICCM in Colorado Springs – Registration is open
  • Spring Break Codathon
  • Unspoken requests by Tom and T.R.

 

 

Thanks to Free Royalty Free Music by DanoSongs.com for our into and exit music.

 

No Ties Allowed Podcast 015 – Delayed until next week

by tr.knight on 03/16/2012 | 0

We wish to apologize for having to delay our podcast by another week.  There have been some unexpected personal and family issues arise along with some work priorities.  The four of us felt it best to delay the next podcast because of these.  We also have some unspoken prayer requests.  Please be praying for us as we work through some serious life events.

To tide you over, here are some major news events in the tech industry we would have discussed and may still in a future episode.

Current Tech News:

Prayer Requests:

  • ICCM in Colorado Springs final planning
  • Spring Break Codathon
  • Unspoken prayer requests by the podcast team

No Ties Allowed Podcast 014 – 2012-02-22

by tr.knight on 02/23/2012 | 0

Welcome to the fourteenth No Ties Allowed Podcast with your hosts T.R. Knight, Roy Campbell and Tim Young.   ICCM Europe was a wonderful experience for Roy and T.R..  Listen as they reflect on their experience and share some of what occured.  The group ends the podcast with discussions on recent technology in the news.

SHOW NOTES:

Review of ICCM Europe 2012

Current Tech News:

Favorite Applications and Software:

Reading this Week:

Prayer Requests:

  • ICCM in Colorado Springs final planning
  • Spring Break Codathon

 

 

Thanks to Free Royalty Free Music by DanoSongs.com for our into and exit music.

No Ties Allowed Podcast 013 – 2012-02-02

by tr.knight on 02/04/2012 | 0

Welcome to the thirteenth No Ties Allowed Podcast with your hosts Roy Campbell, Tom Nurkkala, and Tim Young.   T.R. Knight was otherwise occupied and thanks his co-hosts for recording and editing the podcast for privacy concerns this time around.   We are blessed this podcast to have a special guest host from Cisco…Seth Hanford talking about Security and Social Networking.

SHOW NOTES:

Current Tech News:

Special Guest – Seth Hanford

Favorite Applications and Software:

Reading this Week:

  • Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach by Jane Vella
  • Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust by Immaculze Ilibagiza

Prayer Requests:

  • Safe travel for everyone attending ICCM Europe next week, including Roy and T.R..
  • David Housholder who is Keynote at ICCM Europe
  • ICCM Europe

 

 

Thanks to Free Royalty Free Music by DanoSongs.com for our into and exit music.

 

 

 

No Ties Allowed Podcast 012 – 2012-01-16

by tr.knight on 01/18/2012 | 4

Welcome to the twelfth No Ties Allowed Podcast with your hosts T.R. Knight, Roy Campbell, Tom Nurkkala, and Tim Young.   Hope you all have had a wonderful Christmas and New Years.  We have and we are excited to be back to podcasting again.  To help focus on a new year, we decided to discuss what we see as the What’s Hot and What’s Not technology impacting missions trends for 2012.  Predicting the future of technology is always foolhardy at best, but we all need to be thinking strategically and vision casting for our organizations.  This podcast is our personal glimpses and opinions of the trends as we see them in 2012.

SHOW NOTES:

Current Tech News:

WHAT’S HOT in 2012

  • Virtualization – Servers and Desktops.
  • Windows 8 – Major changes to the User Interface.  Very mobile centric.  Will organizations skip this like they did Vista and Windows 7?
  • Ultrabooks – Long battery life.  Small form factor.
  • Continued movement to the Cloud – Security and Privacy implications.
  • Tablets (iPad and Kindle Fire) – Great battery life.  Use in Bible Translation?
  • Voice Recognition (Siri) – Use in Bible Translation?  Use in Street evangelism?
  • Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) – Cost savings and increased client satisfaction.

WHAT’S NOT in 2012

  • BYOD – This item is HOT but it also has NOT issues.  Can be some major security and privacy implications.
  • Physical Media – Downloaded software/apps, Backups to the Cloud or Virtual Tape Arrays, Dropbox, Amazon Cloud/iCloud.  Are we becoming too reliant on the Cloud?
  • Wired Networking – Wifi and 3g/4g taking over.  How do we get our users to understand wired networks have greater stability, speed and security?
  • Social Overload – TVs with Social Networks/Skype, Facebook/Google+/Twitter/Pinterest/etc.   How does this impact the organizations image?  What about privacy?
  • Technology Understanding of Next Generation – They are users of technology but many no longer understand nor care to understand how it works.  High Expectations with Minimal Understanding leads to Frustration.

GREAT SOURCES FOR TECHNOLOGY TRENDS AND PREDICTIONS

Gartner

CES – Consumer Electronics Show

Small Business Software

Campus Technology

Favorite Applications and Software:

  • Slideshark – https://www.slideshark.com/default.aspx

Reading this Week:

  • T.R. – Flickering Pixels by Shane Hipps
  • Tom – Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson

Prayer Requests:

  • An early member of ICCM passed away last week, Mike O’Rear.  Pray for his family and friends.  Also pray for the GMI techie who has now inherited the role of temporary director, who also has to continue doing all the techie stuff at the same time.

 

 

Thanks to Free Royalty Free Music by DanoSongs.com for our into and exit music.

 

 

No Ties Allowed Podcast 011 – 2011-12-22

by tr.knight on 12/23/2011 | 4

Welcome to the eleventh No Ties Allowed Podcast with your hosts T.R. Knight, Roy Campbell, Tom Nurkkala, and Tim Young.   The four of us are back together again!   Sorry for the delay in podcasts.  With holidays, illnesses, and travel we have been challenged to find time to chat and produce the podcast.   The next podcast will likely be in three weeks again due to the Christmas Holiday and the beginning of the New Year.

SHOW NOTES:

Current Tech News:

Roy’s review of his Africa trip

RIM floundering as a company

WebOS going Open Source

SOPA – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act

Carrier IQ – http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/30/2

Favorite Applications and Software:

  • Roy testing out a Samsung S2X Smart Phone and a Huawei Ideos.

Reading this Week:

Prayer Requests:

  • Tim as he continues to recover from his broken wrist.
  • T.R.’s daughter Emily who has just now gotten braces.
  • Christmas travels.
  • Advent Season.

 

 

Thanks to Free Royalty Free Music by DanoSongs.com for our into and exit music.

 

No Ties Allowed Podcast 010 – 2011-11-30

by tr.knight on 11/30/2011 | 3

Welcome to the tenth No Ties Allowed Podcast with your hosts T.R. Knight, Tom Nurkkala, and Tim Young.   Once again we have a special guest host to enlighten our conversation.   With us this podcast is Antoine Wright from Mobile Ministry Magazine to discuss how mobile devices are being used to deliver God’s word.

Sorry this podcast’s audio has a few issues.  Our guest was coming to us live from a coffee shop proving that he truly is mobile!

SHOW NOTES:

Current Tech News:

Antoine RJ Wright | http://antoinerjwright.com | Twitter – @arjwright
Mobile Ministry Magazine (MMM) | http://mobileministrymagazine.com | Twitter – @mobileminmag

Microsoft Office for iOS?
http://www.thedaily.com/page/2011/11/29/112911-tech-news-ms-ipad/

Blackberry Changing how it does Wifi Calling
http://www.tmonews.com/2011/11/blackberry-bold-9900-wont-use-uma-for-wi-fi-calling-software-update-release-date-still-unknown/

Favorite Applications and Software:

Reading this Week:

  • T.R.  is starting to read Flickering Pixels: How Technology Shapes Your Faith by Shane Hipps.
  • Tom  has been reading Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer and Blah, Blah, Blah by Dan Roam

Prayer Requests:

  • Tim as he continues to recover from his broken wrist.
  • Roy as he is traveling to Kenya.

 

 

Thanks to Free Royalty Free Music by DanoSongs.com for our into and exit music.