The Center for Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University released a new report this week that should be of interest to every Catholic who works with new media, whether paid or a volunteer. The report, entitled Catholic New Media Use in the United States, 2012, surveyed more than 1,000 self-identified Catholics (which includes those [...]
The English-language Italian news agency Rome Reports has a nice video report on Cardinal Seán’s Twitter initiative and our efforts in new media at the Archdiocese of Boston. The other web sites mentioned in the report are SuicideIsAlwaysATragedy.org and YearofFaithBoston.org
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. pastor@stanyparish.com), plus shared calendars, Google Docs, Google Spreadsheets, [...]
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 [...]
The new and upcoming and cutting-edge social network out there now is Google+. It’s in beta test mode right now and people have been signing up since mid-July. Now, as of November 7, businesses, organizations, and brands can now sign up for pages as well. And since it’s our hope to bring the Gospel to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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