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MA Parish Using Social Media/Website Effectively
After reading this article from the CNS about a Massachusetts parish's use of its website, YouTube, Facebook, etc., it seems like they would be a good example of what to emulate in other parishes.
Continue readingFather Longe and parishioner Timothy Hourihan believe in taking the message of Jesus to new people in new ways. Specifically, during the past year they initiated many forms of electronic evangelization to attract more people to the faith.
Since April 2009, the parish YouTube site has had more than 20,000 views of its home-produced videos. The...
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Social Media Policies
I'm working on a Social Media Policy for the Archdiocese of St. Louis... anyone know of other Catholics/Archdioceses with policies in place already?
I have heard the USCCB is also working on a policy right now, but I don't know when that will come to fruition.
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YouTube video converter
This may or may not seem like a silly question to a lot of you... Recently my office has needed a video which is already on YouTube to be posted on our web site. Under normal circumstances, we would just embed it, but, as it happens, this particular one is an hour long and we only need the last 30 minutes or so. We would like to download it and edit it, but in looking into this, I was presented with the option of downloading free converter software. Rather than...
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Celebrating the Holy Mass from an iPad
As seen on WDTPRS earlier today (and quoted from the AP—Fr. Z's comments in bold):
Continue readingROME — An Italian priest has developed an iPad application that will let priests celebrate Mass with an iPad on the altar instead of the regular Roman missal.
The Rev. Paolo Padrini, a consultant with the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Social Communications, said Friday that the free application will be launched in July in English, French, Spanish, Italian and Latin. [In this case, I hope it will be complete. I found iBreviary to be… sub-optimal.]...
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Use Text Instead of Text-in-a-Picture/Flier for your Website
Make your information searchable, accessible, and reader-friendly... this is from a post on archstldev.com:
Continue readingIf you perform a web search via Google, or in the search engine on any website in the world, your search is done using simple words, like "bishop st. louis." A search engine must be able to see words like these in your pages if you want people to find your pages.
You need to have written text on the page (copied and pasted, or typed on the website) if you want people to be...
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Posting documents for web in Word format ...... and defending the decision
Recently I blogged about a press release that was issued in a Microsoft Word format. Touching on a article I found on OpenSourceCatholic, I mentioned even the Vatican says Thou shalt not use proprietary formats. The defense?
Regarding your comment on needing $150 Microsoft Word to open the press release, you forget that ALL versions of Windows include "Wordpad," which opens Word documents. While we normally use PDFs, we used a document format so others (like you) would not have retype the information.
A little Microsoft-centric....
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Redesign Project: Students for Life Michigan
From the Students for Life:
We want to redesign our website so it is more appealing to the eye and integrates social media. Do you know anyone who could help us with this?
The Students for Life (MI) website looks to be using ASP right now, but I'm sure they're willing to do whatever they need to get 'social' and update their site. You may notice that their blog page has been hacked at some point—there's a ton of Russian spam links in the html...
Interested parties should leave a...
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