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BooDroo
I’d like to introduce you to BooDroo. I’ve been working on BooDroo for over a year and we’ve been testing it at St. Barnabas Church (Bronx, NY) for several months.
BooDroo is a tool that allows parishes to instantly communicate reminders, news and updates to their parishioners, via text message.
The BooDroo project was borne out of my experiences as a web developer and social media consultant for churches and non-profits. I set out to build something that would have a better signal-to-noise ratio than Facebook or Twitter and would,...
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2013 World Communications Day: Social Networks
Pope Benedict XVI released his message for this year’s World Communications Day (which will be May 12th), with the theme Social Networks: portals of truth and faith; new spaces for evangelization.
...At times the gentle voice of reason can be overwhelmed by the din of excessive information and it fails to attract attention which is given instead to those who express themselves in a more persuasive manner. The social media thus need the commitment of all who are conscious of the value of dialogue, reasoned debate and logical argumentation;...
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PHP / AJAX Developer / Programmer
We are building a cloud app. I am looking for an experienced PHP developer ASAP who can work with the bit.ly API (http://dev.bitly.com/). You must have experience using Google App Engine or Amazon AWS EC2. This app will include drag and drop interface so AJAX coding experience in a Google App Engine or Amazon AWS environment is also required.
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New Parish Website
Hey everyone,
My parish has finally decided to redo their website and are going with Drupal as the CMS. I wanted to be able to provide them with some examples of parishes who are using Drupal the right way. So I was wondering if anyone had examples of good parish website using Drupal. Also if anyone had some theme suggestions that would work well for a parish.
Thanks in advance. Jason
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The Pope's first tweet (@pontifex)
As seen on Whispers…
A couple interesting notes:
- The Pope seems to have not actually triggered the tweet, as he pushed up on the screen, registering a scroll rather than a tweet. Oh well.
- The Pope is using TweetDeck, but used Twitter for iPad for the first tweet.
- The iPad nearly tumbled when the assistants confusedly picked it up and popped the smart cover off!
- It didn't seem the entire event (the placement of the iPad, the actual tweeting, and the arrangement of people around the Pope) was that...
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Strange requests for translations from WebHostingGeeks
If you run a few different websites, you might have received a message at some point from a person by the name “Jovana Milutinovich” asking if she could translate a particular page on your website.
Typically, the page in question seems to have been randomly selected, and I posit that WebHostingGeeks is simply trying to get some inbound links for SEO, since I’ve researched other people receiving requests for translation, and noticed that many mailing lists (like ones for PHP, the W3C, and programming language user groups) have identical emails....
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The Pope, on Twitter
Apparently, on December 3, the Holy See Press Office will hold a press conference announcing the Pope’s official entry into the Twitterverse. From the Vatican Information Service:
Vatican City, 29 November 2012 (VIS) – Benedict XVI will be present on Twitter. All related information will be reported on Monday 3 December at a press conference to be held in the Holy See Press Office, with the participation of Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, Msgr. Paul Tighe, secretary of the same dicastery, Fr....
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