Google offers a variety of its online applications available in a package called Apps for Domains. They give users access to email, calendars, word processor, spreadsheets, address book, and more, all under your very own domain name, like pilotnewmedia.com. Normally these services cost $50 per user per year, which is reasonable for most companies, but [...]
We are part of the Pilot Media Group, within the Catholic Media Secretariat of the Archdiocese of Boston. Our mission is to use and help others to engage in outreach, formation, and evangelization initiatives using all the new media platforms available today and in the future.
Pilot New Media Blog
Jan 24
Silence and the Word: Pope Benedict’s message for World Communications Day
Each year for the past 46 years, popes have issued a message for the World Communications Day. In recent years, the messages have focused on the revolution in communications caused by the Internet and have included references to blog, websites, social media, smartphones and more. Today the Vatican released the Holy Father’s 2012 message and [...]
Jan 04
DREs power-using the parish website
Loyola Press has a nice post today on its DRE Connect blog with a number of suggestions for how Directors of Religious Education can use the parish website for effective communications with the parish. Some of my favorites: Add religious education events to the online calendar. Include all registration forms, parent permission slips and releases, [...]
Nov 02
Creating Excellent Parish Websites
On Wednesday, October 26, Pilot New Media sponsored a Fall Media Forum for parishes in the Archdiocese of Boston on the topic of “Creating Excellent Parish Websites”. More than 60 parish leaders were present and more watched through online video streaming. All of our resources from the Forum, including a recording of the livestream (and [...]
Oct 01
Catholic New Media Conference 2011
This weekend I’m at the Catholic New Media Conference in Kansas City, KS, as part of my work as Creative Director of Pilot New Media in the Archdiocese of Boston. We hosted the conference at the Pastoral Center in Braintree last year and it was such a great opportunity to connect with people in the [...]
Aug 26
Lessons learned from our coverage of World Youth Day
From August 12 through 22, Pilot New Media provided unprecedented coverage of the pilgrimage of 500 pilgrims from the Archdiocese to World Youth Day Madrid through various social media accounts, Flickr.com photo sharing, and the website WYDMadridBoston.com. We used a variety of technologies to provide live, real-time updating from wherever we were, as well as [...]
Aug 11
Going to World Youth Day
Pilot New Media is going to World Youth Day with the official pilgrimage from the Archdiocese of Boston’s Office for the New Evangelization of Youth and Young Adults. Starting tomorrow, August 12, through August 23, we’ll be traveling with the 350+ pilgrims from the archdiocese, chronicling their journey in real-time at WYDMadridBoston.com and on our [...]
Jul 25
New media in the Church in Brazil
Vatican Radio has a brief story on how the Church in Brazil is using new media to bring the Gospel to people throughout the very large South American nation, from priests using Skype to connect to remote parishes to using social networks. They interview Archbishop Claudio Celli, Secretary for the Vatican Council for Social Communications, [...]
Jul 05
Pilot New Media in the Boston Herald
Domenico Bettinelli was interviewed in the Boston Herald last week on the occasion of Pope Benedict’s first Tweet that launched the new Vatican website News.va. The Herald wanted to know more about how the Church is using new media and then asked about what we’re doing here in the Archdiocese of Boston. But that first [...]





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