We help parishes and ministries communicate more effectively using all kinds of media: websites, social media, audio, video, photos and whatever comes next. We are part of the Pilot Media Group, within the Catholic Media Secretariat of the Archdiocese of Boston.
We often recommend that Catholic parishes or ministries consider using Google Apps for Non-Profits especially for their email and calendars. As a non-profit, they qualify for a free service that provides for up to 50 users so you can have email addresses specific to your domain (e.g. [email protected]), plus shared calendars, Google Docs, Google Spreadsheets, [...]
Earlier this month, I gave a webinar presentation for Our Sunday Visitor on the topic of Social Media for Pastors and Parishes. I didn’t record the original webinar, but after a few requests I sat down to record it again. In the presentation, I go through the basic of social media–what it is, what it’s [...]
The 404 page is an error message that should come up when you request something from a website that doesn’t exist, like when you mistype the address. It’s usually a pretty bare bones informational message that tells you that there’s an error, what the error is, and that you should try again. But there are [...]
I presented a webinar for Our Sunday Visitor this week on the topic of “Social Media for Pastors and Parishes: More than Friends, Meaningful Relationships” and as part of the presentation I mentioned some best practices and good examples of parish Facebook pages. I got a few questions in the presentation and afterward from people [...]
On the weekend of April 27 & 28, 2012, hundreds of young Catholics gathered in this historic North End of Boston at Sacred Heart Church for a Eucharistic Congress, that included talks by Sr. Helena Burns, fsp, Damon Owens of the Theology of the Body Institute, and Fr. Derek Borek; Mass with Cardinal Seán O’Malley [...]
If you operate a Catholic website, whether for a parish, a ministry, or yourself, you might be interested to hear that the Vatican is now offering a website widget to give your readers the latest news from the Vatican, the Pope’s Angelus or Regina Coeli address, recent speeches and the daily Press Office bulletin. Once [...]
On May 2 and 3, the Catholic Media Secretariat in collaboration with the the Secretariat for Faith, Formation, and Evangelization; the Secretariat for Parish Life and Leadership; St. John’s Seminary; and the Theological Institute for the New Evangelization are conducting two seminars–one for clergy and one for laity–with some of the contributors to the groundbreaking [...]
Choosing your parish domain name (i.e. the church’s website address. For example, www.example.com), Facebook Page address (www.facebook.com/example), Twitter handle (@example), and so on is a critical part of creating your parish’s new media presence. The right name/address could be the difference between parishioners and newcomers regularly visiting to read what you have to say and [...]
Pilot New Media collaborated with Our Sunday Vistor in the creation of their new “Faith In Action” websites solution. This was the same product we presented at our Forum last October on parish websites. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 2, 2012 CONTACT: Terry Poplava Director of Marketing, Sales and Customer Service Phone: 800-348-2886 Email: [email protected] OUR SUNDAY [...]
While evangelization is not the same thing as sales—we’re not trying to sell Jesus to anyone—we can’t ignore the fact that there are elements of human nature that both sales techniques and evangelization share. The “call to action” is one of them. As we’ve said before, too many parish websites function too much like bulletin [...]
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