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Working on a new Intranet - Sharepoint vs. Drupal
I'm working on a new Intranet for the Archdiocese of St. Louis, and I've been developing in Drupal for the time being (the end-user experience, in my opinion, is crucial to the success or downfall of this Intranet), but the Data Center has offered SharePoint as an option.
Some of the main features are profile pages (with pictures of users), a 'dashboard' page on which people will be able to see, at a glance, information they need to see for the day, and Archdiocesan news.
Now, I know everything can...
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Green Egg Media / CSWD
Hi everyone,
I wanted to introduce my company - Green Egg Media.
Green Egg Media was started in 2008 by myself and a fellow Notre Dame grad, Lance Johnson. During the last several years, we've had the pleasure of working with many Catholic institutions on projects, and really love the people and the mission of the work. We've worked with FOCUS: The Fellowship of Catholic University Students on the redesign of their site, EWTN's Crossing the Goal on their site, and even ATIQTUQ, a Catholic publisher of bible-themed manga...
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Found on NCR: How are parishes using new media?
From Matthew Warner's blog on the National Catholic Register website: How are parishes using new media?
Continue readingLast week I asked my Twitter followers for some examples of parishes using new media. I got some good ones, which I was pleased with. So thank you fellow tweeters!
But I must admit that, overall, I was a bit disappointed in my search. I also “googled” the topic fairly extensively and the pickin’s were few. I hope that one day when we google “Catholic Parish,” we are blown away with how impressed...
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Anyone Use ExpressionEngine?
Hey everyone,
I'm new here, but I was checking out the Forum postings and saw that there was a lot of love for Drupal/Joomla but I was wondering if anyone used ExpressionEngine, either 1.x or 2.x.
I run a design/development company with my business partner - both Catholic dudes. We do some work for Catholic organizations, and love the people and the work.
We were floating around ModX, Wordpress, and even Concrete5, and then we started using EE and never looked back. The best part for me (as the guy...
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Parish School Websites
Often, a school has radically different requirements than a parish, even though the two are, physically, attached to each other. Schools have teachers, classrooms, assignments, etc., and serve a very different audience than a general parish.
Because of this, some schools have entirely different websites than their parent parishes, or, sometimes, the school has a unique section on the main parish website.
Whatever the case, here is a great site to get you started in your development of a website, social media solutions, etc.:
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Two Trackbacks - First Things & OpenSource.com
Recently, this site has had a nice influx of visitors from the following two articles:
1. First Things / First Thoughts: Sources for Open Sources
I stumbled across Open Source Catholic while looking for something entirely different, and as our webmaster says it looks like a useful site, pass it along. It includes stories with mysterious titles like Drupal Gardens enters Open Public Beta and understandable ones like Live-Blogging to Drive Traffic, Interest to Organizational Events. Some of you may find it useful.
2. opensource.com: Give me some of that...
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Open Source Catholic Challenge: Rosary in HTML5
An idea I've been having in the back of my mind for some time is putting the Rosary (or another devotional) online in such a way as to (a) faithfully instruct individuals on the purpose and beauty in its prayer, and (b) stretch my skills and build a usable, friendly, and prayerful web application.
I envision building a standards-compliant/HTML5 site which leads a Catholic through the recitation of the Holy Rosary, or maybe the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, and works across as many modern browsers as is possible, without Flash,...
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