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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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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Talking New Media on the Radio

Domenico Bettinelli, Creative Director in our office, was on The Good Catholic Life today. TGCL is a radio show that airs weekdays on WQOM 1060AM, Boston’s Catholic radio, and is available as a podcast at the show’s website. Our office is intimately involved in the production of the show, making transcriptions of each show, maintaining [...]

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Our latest project: World Youth Day

We’re gearing up for World Youth Day this August with a special initiative in cooperation with theOffice for the New Evangelization of Youth and Young Adults, who are organizing the pilgrimage from Boston. We’ve created a new website for them at www.wydmadridboston.com with a travel-related theme. It will have a ot of cool features, including [...]

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My kingdom for a Mass widget

I can’t believe this hasn’t come up before. I would love to put a widget (i.e. a small piece of content that lives on your website, but derives its data from someplace else) on some sites I’m designing that shows the daily Mass readings. But I just can’t find what I want. The free Catholic [...]

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Missing the March

We’ve been inundated with snow since just after Christmas, which has slowed us down somewhat. However, we’ve been keeping busy with the new Catholics Come Home Boston initiative that we’re launching. The official launch date is Ash Wednesday, but we rolled out the program in parishes this past Sunday, which was Evangelization Sunday, with a [...]

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