Workshops during ICCM 2012
During the conference you will be able to attend six out of the twelve workshops. They are organised in tracks and you can attend all of track or pick and choose what you go to on a workshop by workshop basis - that is entirely up to you. Use the further information links below for further details of each workshop. For the current conference programme, including times of workshops see the Conference Programme
Also bear in mind that much of the programme of ICCM is built around BOFs (Birds of a feather). This concept allows the attendees to get together and discuss topics they have experience in or issues with, and is a primary part of the collaborative nature of ICCM. Topics for BOFs are decided on during a BOF voting period during the main programme.
Management & Leadership Track
| Informed Not Inundated | confirmed | T.R. Knight | >><< |
| IT Governance | confirmed | Eric Straw | >><< |
| Leadership: becoming a person of influence | confirmed | Hans van der Veen | >><< |
 | About T.R. Knight: Director of Technology Services/CISO at Taylor University, Lightsys Associate Masters of Art of Education in Curriculum (Educational Technology) T.R. has a passion for Missions Technology and technology in general. He has been assisting with the development and growth of the Center for Missions Computing at Taylor. He has consulted for Lightrider Ministries, New Tribes Mission, Child Evangelism Fellowship and Gospel for Asia. He donates out of service network equipment and servers from Taylor University to mission organizations. Informed Not Inundated: Tips and tricks on staying current through organization, note taking, and speed reading. Do you find it difficult to keep your technology and leadership knowledge current? Is there a huge stack of magazines on your desk that you just don't have time to read? Are leadership and technology books gathering dust on your shelves or eating up dormant bytes on your E-reader? Are you weeks or months behind on your favorite blogs and podcasts? Do you feel overwhelmed keeping your tasks lists and projects organized? Come learn some practical tips and tricks for staying current and organized. The ideas shared may seem simple but they can have an amazing impact on your time and knowledge. |
 | About Eric Straw: Eric serves as a member of the Board of Directors and as the Executive Director of Mark 5 Ministries. Eric is an Associate Professor of Information Systems at Corban College & Graduate School in Salem, Oregon, USA. He has been with Corban since 2002. Prior to Corban, Eric’s work included running his own small manufacturing company, managing IT and telephony services at a large HP campus, and serving in the U.S. Navy onboard submarines. Eric has an undergraduate degree in business, a master’s degree in computer information systems, and is ABD (all but dissertation) on a Ph.D. in information systems. Eric has been married to Margie for over 25 years and they have four children. Eric, Margie, and three of their children are active members at Scio Baptist Church. Jennifer, their eldest, is a missionary with Africa Inland Missions (AIM) in Mocimboa, Mozambique. IT Governance: ITG is a subset of organizational governance. As such, it is the big picture -- biggest picture -- of IT in the organization. Effective ITG empowers and controls by ensuring that IT decision rights and decision accountability work to support the organization's objectives. ITG is not about specific IT decisions that are made (e.g. should the organization switch to Google Apps for Business, or should every missionary's laptop hard drive be fully encrypted?). Rather, it is about who has the decision rights and who holds those decisions accountable as well as how those two things are accomplished in order to drive as much value as possible from IT. Research has consistently shown significant positive organizational impact from effective ITG. This has led one of ITG's top researchers to claim that "effective IT governance is the single most important predictor of the value an organization generates from IT" (Peter Weill, director of the MIT Sloan School of Management: Center for Information Systems Research). This workshop will explore the following questions: • What is ITG? • Why is ITG important to mission organizations? • Why does ITG matter to IT leaders and managers attending ICCM? • Why should you engage your senior leadership in ITG? And, how? • How can ITG research benefit the mission community? |
 | About Hans van der Veen: Hans is a professional trainer and coach. His personal mission statement is "Healthy leadership makes people flourish". He wants to help leaders develop their leadership skills and become the best leaders they can be, and so, themselves lead their people to be the best they can be. Hans provides businesses with tailor made training programmes involving leadership, communication and coaching. He also provides coaching and executive coaching on a senior practitioner level (European Individual Accreditation (EIA)). Hans is a founding circle member of the John Maxwell team and certified John Maxwell trainer, speaker and coach. To read more on Hans, see http://www.hansvdveen.nl and http://johnmaxwellgroup.com/hansvanderveen/ Leadership: becoming a person of influence: Everyone influences others. You don't have to be in a high-profile occupation to be an influencer; whenever your life connects with another person, you exert influence. So if you learn to develop your influence, you can be more effective and the contribution you make can be longer lasting. A person of influence has integrity, nurtures other people, connects and empowers the people around him. Hans will be presenting his workshop based on the leadership principles of John C. Maxwell. Maxwell is a leadership expert whose non-profit organization Equip has trained millions of church and ministry leaders worldwide. John's definition of leadership is 'Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less'. This workshop will help those in all positions of leadership or potential leadership become better at what they do. |
Mobile & Web Related Technology Track
| Web Design for techies/programmers | confirmed | John Battenfield | >><< |
| jQuery mobile by example | confirmed | Leonard Levering | >><< |
| Developing in LightSwitch | confirmed | Jeroen | >><< |
 | About John Battenfield: John and his wife, Amy, have been helping missionaries and pastors communicate through visual design for over 15 years – half of that time in Europe. A French major in university in southern California, John started a graphics company at the age of 22, and taught himself Photoshop and Illustrator. His favorite thing to do – right up there with sipping a Chai tea latte – is designing logos. The Battenfields have been serving with GemStone Media in Kandern, Germany since 2007. Web Design for techies/programmers: Whether you're designing, developing, or programming, clear, concise communication is key. John will be taking you on a Quest through the basics of design theory, including tips and tricks for powerful web page design, and he'll temporarily open the wormhole that leads to the secrets of organizing invisibly. |
 | About Leonard Levering: Leonard is a freelance (web)developer. Programming in a web environment since 1999, and since 2003 I have my own company. I develop for different appliances usually regular web browsers, however other devices range from smartphones/tablets to a console on the bridge of an ocean crane vessel. In 2008 I was for a year supporting the mission organisation Victory4All in South-Africa and I am still involved (though from Holland) in giving the back-office support. jQuery mobile by example: jQuery Mobile is a library that helps to quickly build mobile websites/'web applications' with a uniform interface over the different mobile platforms. In this seminar we will take a look at a simple mobile web application that is build with the help of jQuery Mobile. Step-by-step will build up the application, thereby touching all the basic parts of the library. We will also discuss some possible caveats and incompatibilities (between devices) that still exist even while using jQuery. The code of the application will be available after the workshop, so you have an example to start developing your own application. If possible bring your tablet or smartphone, with ICCM wifi access. |
 | About Jeroen: Working for the mission for 7 years as a senior programmer. Started my career in VBA and Access and upgraded to C#, ASP.NET and LightSwitch. Currently I create and maintain web applications in ASP.NET (C#) and developing an application for the projects of our mission in Microsoft LightSwitch. It is very exciting to us the skills I have in mission. LightSwitch: application development framework: Microsoft LightSwitch is an application framework for the .NET framework. Create your application that can run in the web browser or on the PC of your client, without writing a single line of code. Easily create your screens for searching, inserting, modifying and deleting for any data. Is LightSwitch the framework that can replace MS Access? |
Basic Track
| Powershell - Real power? Real Shell? | confirmed | Josh Gee | >><< |
| Is it time to invest in a CRM? | confirmed | Neil Pheasant | >><< |
| Social Media - The opportunity? | confirmed | Wouter van der Toorn | >><< |
 | About Josh Gee: Josh has a BSc in Computer Science and Engineering from LeTourneau University, He has worked for HCJB Global for over ten years and for the last few years been based in the UK. He is HCJB Globals Director of Information Security and provides IT support to three regional offices in Europe and Africa. For the last two years he has hands-on project managed migrations from disparate Linux and Windows server environments to a full Windows 2008 R2 server environment and from internal email servers, at multiple sites around the globe, to one hosted centralized system. Powershell has been an essential component in making these projects possible. He also knows about NAS/SAN storage selection, and loads about security. Powershell - Real power? Real Shell? Anyone working in server or desktop support will have heard of Powershell. Microsoft describe it as a new Windows command-line shell designed especially for system administrators. The problem is, how do you use it, and what is it for? In this workshop you will learn about the basics of using powershell and how it can be used to make the difficult tasks a server or system administrator has to do possible. If you are familiar with Linux shells, this will be a real eye-opener! It does have Power and it is a Shell environment. |
 | About Neil Pheasant: Neil started his professional life in the UK public sector as a software developer (primarily CORAL66 and Assembler). He then trained as a systems analyst and moved into project management, focusing on the development and implementation of relational database systems. In 1995 Neil was appointed the UK Director of Red Sea Mission Team (now ReachAcross), where he served for 10 years and, in 2005, became Operations Director (and Deputy European Director) of Africa Inland Mission International’s European Mobilizing Region. In both these roles Neil was responsible for developing and improving IT strategy and infrastructure, taking overall leadership of projects to integrate mission information systems and develop CRM functionality to meet mission needs. Since 2010 Neil has been a team leader with thankQ ltd, a leading supplier of CRM software to not for profit organisations in the UK and Europe. Arab World Ministries was thankQ’s first customer and played a significant part in the design of the original thankQ product. Since then thankQ CRM has developed significantly and world mission organisations using thankQ now include: AIM International, Asia Link, BMS Worldwide, Crosslinks, ECM, Global Connections, HCJB, MECO, ReachAcross, SIM and UFM Worldwide and Worldshare. Is it time to invest in a CRM? Do you feel fully in control of the information your mission holds? Do you find it difficult to keep it all up to date and avoid duplication? Are the relationships between your donors, supporters, beneficiaries, applicants, mission personnel and other stakeholders clear and understood throughout your organisation? With over 16 years’ experience as both mission customer and CRM provider, Neil Pheasant will share his unique perspective on the importance of integrating mission information systems and of developing CRM functionality to meet the growing needs of missions. For more information about thankQ CRM software, email hello@thankQ.co.uk, phone +44 (0)1509 23 55 44 or visit www.thankQ.co.uk. |
 | About Wouter van der Toorn: Wouter van der Toorn divides his attention between pastoring an active Baptist Church in Doetinchem and acting as the Media Innovator for the Agape Foundation focused on worldwide Internet Operation. Since 2003 he has been developing and using the Internet for evangelism and discipleship. He produces Startersbijbel.nl an online Bible introduction course and the IkzoekGod.nl (I seek God) - evangelistic website. He is actively involved in an international coalition of Christian organizations working together to develop Jesus.net. Social Media - The opportunity?: Most of the world’s population are under 30 and they use social media to communicate and build their relationships. Search on youtube for “social media revolution” and you will get some clips with stats that highlight this. The question is, how can we bring the Gospel into this context, where is mission with Social Media? Knowing the technology is one thing, but seeing the mission opportunities and being able to use them is another. Mission is about connection with people – it’s real life really – so how can we maximize the use of social media in our mission contexts? |
Advanced Technology Track
| The best from 60K hours of Database Development | confirmed | Paul Nielsen | >><< |
| High performance SAN on a shoestring | confirmed | Ted Cox | >><< |
| The Deniable File System (DFS): Denying the existence of hidden, encrypted data | confirmed | Corey Keating | >><< |
 | About Paul Nielsen: Paul Nielsen is a Microsoft SQL Azure MVP, author of the SQL Server 2008 Bible, founder/CEO of Ministry Weaver, inc , and chair of the US ICCM 2012 conference May 16-20 in Colorado Springs. His favorite verse is Habakkuk 2:14. The best from 60K hours of Database Development: I've been developing databases since 1979. From all my previous conference presentations, seminar slide decks, top-ten lists, and book illustrations I selected the best slides, my favorite features, and best illustrations. These are the ideas that bubble to the top - the ideas worth remembering - from data architecture and nulls, to T-SQL functions and killing the cursor, to the strategy of indexing. This is a fast-paced session with part nostalgia, part code, part diagrams, and all SQL. |
 | About Ted Cox: Ted Cox is an award-winning video director and producer. A graduate of the Compass Film Academy, Ted has worked as an actor, director, director of photography, camera man, editor, a waiter, and even a UNIX systems administrator. Now, Ted is delighted to serve as a video producer with GemStone Media. Prior to joining GemStone Media, Ted did a seven year tour of duty in the IT world. Beginning as a Tech Support Analyst for the Windows 95 launch, Ted worked his way into a position as the senior UNIX administrator for a Fortune 500 company before God called him into video production. His broad artistic and technical background gives Ted a unique perspective on media creation and creative problem solving. High performance SAN on a shoestring: In the video production world, we work with huge files that must be accessed at high speed without a stutter or a hiccup. On modern hardware this is fairly easy to achieve. But working with a team, often times different team members need simultaneous access to project files sometimes totaling more than 2tb. Making copies is time consuming and painful. The ideal solution is a network server holding all the data but serving it to each client at 75MB/s or better. In the for profit world, this is handled with a very fast SAN, usually over fiber channel. Turn-key SAN solutions for Video Production shops start at about $40k plus all the fiber channel gear. However, the geniuses at the SAN forum at Creative Cow came up with a $10k DIY solution. At that point they declared it was impossible to do it more cheaply but by the grace of God we were able to adapt the concept to GemStone's needs using old donated hardware and existing gigabit ethernet lines for less than $1000. If you need ludicrously fast, shared storage, and you're not afraid of the impossible, join us as I take you through our system and how how you can make your own. |
 | About Corey Keating: Corey is the co-founder of Mark 5 Ministries, a non-profit organization providing computer support to missionaries. He is a fulltime instructor at the online campus of ECPI University, where he teaches computer networking and security courses. Before entering a teaching career, Corey worked in the IT field in various positions, such as network manager, systems engineer, and director of IT. Besides having a master’s degree in computer information systems and a master of arts in theology, Corey is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in information systems, with a concentration in computer security; the topic of his dissertation involves information systems risk management. He provides ongoing computer security consulting to missionaries and mission organizations. Corey maintains a website to help home users and small businesses with computer security issues (ComputerSecurityNW.com). Corey and his wife Jeanette have been happily married for 22 years and live in Salem Oregon. The Deniable File System (DFS): Denying the existence of hidden, encrypted data Encrypting your laptop's hard drive can be a critical component of the IS security stance for an individual or an organization. For those traveling into dangerous parts of the world, if hostile authorities force you to give your encryption password, it may be important to maintain a hidden encrypted volume that would be impossible to detect, a Deniable File System (DFS). Although creating a hidden encrypted volume is easy to do, your operating system and applications often leak information about this hidden volume, making it impossible for you to deny its existence. This seminar will discuss: • An overview of hard drive encryption tools, techniques, and practices • An explanation of the concepts and open-source tools needed to create a DFS • Challenges of maintaining a "true" DFS • Some best practices for DFS • Cautions and limitations for those maintaining a DFS |