Archive for July, 2006
Monday, July 10th, 2006
Tech we Use: Part 1 - External Web
I enjoy reading lists of the tech that other organizations use, like the posts from Brian Bailey and 37signals which have provided insight and ideas as we build our own environment. So here is the first of a series of posts on the technology we use at St. Mark’s. I’ll begin with [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Open Source, Web/Tech by Andrew Mitry
Monday, July 10th, 2006
Tech Nights at St. Mark’s
We have a great team of tech volunteers at St. Mark’s, recently though we have all gotten busy in our own schedules, I feel that God is saying we need to refocus, spend time with Him and with each other in Christian fellowship and then move forward. So starting Thursday, July 20th, we will [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Christianity by Andrew Mitry
Monday, July 10th, 2006
Big Announcement Coming Soon!
The Big Announcement is Coming in Just
Days!
St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Church of Washington, DC and OrthodoxBookstore.org have a very important announcement about a new project that has been in the works for several months now and is sure to help spread the word of God to all the ends of the earth! Stay tuned!
2 Comments » - Posted in Christianity by Andrew Mitry
Friday, July 7th, 2006
Jumping Onto the VoIP Bandwagon
I spent several years working in telecom, at Winstar and for small vendors installing traditional hybrid PBX phone systems. I installed mainly Nortel systems, but we did service Avaya (Lucent), Toshiba, Panasonic and NEC on occasion. I originally installed a donated Nortel Norstar 824 with Startalk B Voicemail for the church back around 2000. Over [...]
10 Comments » - Posted in VoIP/Telecom by Andrew Mitry
Wednesday, July 5th, 2006
Seven Blogging Tools Reviewed
Idealware has an article on TechSoup reviewing blogging tools, they also have some great links to other articles on blogging at the bottom. For those of you who don’t know TechSoup, they provide a have a lot of good technology resources for nonprofits. They also have some donated goods which you can purchase [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Web/Tech by Andrew Mitry
Monday, July 3rd, 2006
Vision
At St. Mark’s we all know that Father Bishoy is a man with vision, a vision guided by the Holy Spirit, and that is what has helped our church overcome many problems over the years. I think this post by Gary Lamb on Most problems are vision problems… sums it up perfectly.
2 Comments » - Posted in Christianity by Andrew Mitry
Monday, July 3rd, 2006
Coptic Internet Radio
Mina Samaan has begun work on a 24/7 Internet radio station featuring orthodox sermons, liturgies, hymns and praise. It is still in alpha, but feel free to give it a try:
mms://media1.stmarkdc.org/radio
We are testing Sam Broadcaster which automates and controls the station and then it pushes the encoded stream to our Windows Server 2003 with [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Web/Tech by Andrew Mitry
Sunday, July 2nd, 2006
Light and Life moves to the Gym
Our Sunday young adult meeting, Light and Life, moved out of the basement (the room was limited to 97 seats) to the gym. I am excited about the gym, it is going to give us an opportunity to have live praise and worship and a real flexibility with the space. The biggest benefit [...]
