A primary focus of this first gathering will be on Disaster Preparation/Recovery/Response, Storage and Backups, SaaS and Cloud Application Hosting, and Network/System Monitoring/Reporting. While the agenda is driven by the participants, those items seem to have a uniquely Texas focus to them that we may not cover as in depth at a national roundtable event.
Other Potential Topics of Discussion (Remember-it is all up to YOU)
- Antivirus/Malware Asset/Inventory Management
- Asterisk
- Backups
- Best Practices
- Budgeting
- Charity Licensing/Purchasing
- Child Check-in
- Church Management Systems (ChMS)
- Church/Mission Focus of Church IT
- Computer Imaging
- Computer Rotation
- Content Filtering
- Content Management
- Data Retention
- Deduplication
- Desktop Management Tools
- Digital Signage
- Disaster Recovery
- Disk Quotas/Personal Storage
- Document Management
- Documentation
- Donated Equipment
- Email/File Archiving
- Face Time vs Computer Time
- Facility Scheduling
- Firewalls
- Google Apps
- Guest/Volunteer Access
- Hardware Standardization
- Helpdesk software
- Instant Messaging (internal)
- Internet uplinks (DSL,T1,Fiber)
- Intranet
- IT Health (measuring, reporting)
- IT Staffing
- IT Team Spiritual Health
- iTunes issues/solutions
- Knowledge Bases
- Leasing vs Purchasing
- License Management
- Local Admin Rights
- Mac AD Integration
- Mac Support
- Mass Communications (mass email, sms, phonetree)
- Mobile Support
- Multi-site/campus
- Network Infrastructure
- Network Monitoring
- New Construction
- New Employee/Applicant Testing
- Non-computer Network Connectivity
- Office 2007
- Offsite Backup
- Offsite Support
- Open Source vs Freeware
- Outsourcing
- Patch Management
- Personal Life Organization
- Phone Topics
- Physical Security
- Policies and Procedures
- Printer Management
- Prioritizing/Organizing Work
- Project Management
- Provisioning New Users/Computers
- Public WiFi
- Remote Access for Staff
- SaaS
- SANs
- Software Standardization
- SSL/VPN
- Streaming Systems
- Monitoring
- Training Staff
- Vendor Management
- Virtualization
- VLANs and Routing
- VOIP
- Vulnerability Testing
- Web 2.0
- WiFi