TechRepublic have for many a year provided useful content and one I read this morning was “10 tech skills you should develop during the next five years” (no link as you need to log in to get at it any way) and it set me to wondering how useful these would be in the Church.
Specifically in the Church I attend – anyway, the 10 are:
- Voice over IP
- Unified Communications
- Hybrid Networks
- Wireless Technology
- Remote User Support
- Mobile User Support
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Virtulisation
- IPv6
- Security.
Taking them as a whole we only manage to do 5 and 10 which is quite sad really. When I say we, I do of course mean me. The rest would either be on the “I’d love to do this but” or the “You what?” lists.
Unfortunately I’ve come to realise that my Church in terms of use of technology is unlikely to get to do most of these in their current incarnation. We need a radical overhaul of the way we view tech as a whole and that would probably include an overhaul of the leadership team.
Now I don’t mean that as a criticism to the leadership but it is a realistic view of their own public statements about technology and shall we say “modern methods” of interacting. But here is where God currently wants me to serve (and for the last 22yrs) and I don’t see that changing either – so I guess all I can do is dream for now.
How much of the list are you achieving?
I could spend the rest of my career focusing on Unified Communications for organizations and it would be never-ending; communications simply change and morph and multiply too quickly to ever get it "down".