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New Forum Added: "Traditional Media"
Just created a new forum, titled "Traditional Media" — the forum is meant to be a place to discuss Catholic newspapers, magazines, television, etc., and most especially ways that stalwarts of the so-called 'traditional' media are moving into the future world of digital convergence.Some would call traditional media "old" media, but we beg to differ... There is most definitely a place for television programming, news journalism (and I don't mean the run-and-gun blog-style journalism), photojournalism, and printed media in our connected world.
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Diocesan newspapers
Has anyone seen statistics on the number of Diocesan newspapers that are online vs. paper only? Ours in La Crosse is paper only with no plans of going online. I guess I'm a webhead, but I suppose paper news has it's advantages. Like fire kindling?
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Catholictuner.com
I am looking for developers for this site. The goals are rather ambitious;
- To centralize Catholic Media into a CMS.
- To globalize the content by language.
- Create a media player, an “electronic” version of a radio (hence tuner name)
- To work directly with content providers.
- To this use open standards
- To offer it to users and content providers for free
- To collaborate with Catholic Radio Association to become a tool
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Looking for Drupal / Joomla / CMS Developers
I have been contacted recently by a few different Catholic organizations asking for help with various web projects. They (obviously) want to stay within a budget, but are at a loss as to finding a developer who will (a) keep their mission in mind, (b) develop a really slick website and (c) not charge two arms and a leg.
Please continue to post your information in the Services forum, whether you're looking for (or are available for) work, or you have a job that needs completion. I would love...
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Great article on how Twitter Corp was hacked
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Friars of the Immaculate
[Editor's note: Do you have any examples of other consecrated, ordained, or lay groups leveraging the power of their websites, YouTube channels, etc. to great effect? Please share them, and write as much as you can about them!]
One of the interesting orders I've run across is the Friars of the Immaculate. They did a live web broadcast from the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in May on a Marian Co-redemptorix conference (which I delightfully assisted). Here is the video of one of the speakers (Fr. Straub...
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Acquia to fund $8 Million for Drupal development
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/20/acquia-finds-8-million-for-development-of-publishing-system-drupal/
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