STEP SIX - MANAGEMENT

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• Technology management defines the methods and resources required to carry out the day to day operation of the media ministry. This will include a group of people that encompasses the church staff and lay ministers.

• There are several ministries that fall under the technology management and technology plan as a whole. Besides managing the technology itself, such as providing maintenance, upgrades as required, and operation of the equipment, content creators are also vital to a technology plan, because technology without content is nothing. Content is the message.

• Too often when we think about our media ministry, we think about the technology and the operators and technicians, or our technical talent. We fail to consider the creative talent, such as musicians, graphic artist, vocal talent for the spoken word, writers (copyrighting, scripts etc), and drama folks, as content creators and part of the technology plan.

• Many times the technical people are used where more creative people should have been used, and many people who are very technical do not participate in ministries where they have a gift because we tend to blur these gifts. A technology plan should provide a map to clearly define the talent resourses and gifts required to meet the overall goal.

• The technology plan defines the resourses and management fulfills the requirements.