The record-breaking blizzard over the first weekend of February, 2013, showed how far we’ve come in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts since the Blizzard of 1978 in terms of preparedness and response to major snow events. In 1978, people were stranded on highways and roadsand it took weeks to clear them and return to normal. While [...]
Did you know that Ash Wednesday is the busiest traffic day for parish websites? Catholic Tech Talk informs us that is and gives some tips on how to get ready. First, are your Ash Wednesday mass times updated on your website? Let’s make sure the website we’re responsible for have their mass times updated and [...]
A few weeks ago we highlighted Google Apps for Non Profits, a program where they give non-profit organizations no-cost access to their suite of apps using your own domain name. This was similar to Google’s product, Google Apps for Business. That program had a version that allowed anyone to use the same suite of apps [...]
One of the thorniest and most confusing topics when it comes to the use of new media by not just parishes and ministries, but everyone on the Internet, is copyright. What is copyright? How do I know what images, music, writing I can use on my website? If I find it on Google, does that [...]
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 [...]
Google has announced on one of its company blogs that it plans to end support for Internet Explorer 8 in its products and websites as of November 15, 2012. (Internet Explorer 7 has already been sidelined.) While Windows users on Vista, 7, and the upcoming 8 are likely using Internet Explorer 9 and, soon, 10, [...]
One of the challenges faced by parishes and Catholic ministries in new media is setting up a good communications infrastructure. Email continues to be the primary means for most organizations to communicate, yet many parishes find themselves stuck using a hodgepodge of addresses from their Internet provider (e.g. Comcast or Verizon), free Internet services (e.g. [...]
Search engines like Google have pretty much replaced the Yellow Pages and other directories as the way that most people find local businesses and organizations. We’ve talked before in our presentations and on this site about the importance of your website and its content for search engine optimization (SEO), but there’s another way to ensure [...]
When we held our Social Media Forum at the Pastoral Center in February 2012, one of the tools we highlighted to help with bringing your content to your Facebook Page from your website was an app called RSS Graffiti. Since then the app has received an upgrade to version 2.0 (which is technically listed as [...]
Marketing can sound like a bad word when used within the context of ministry. After all, we’re not selling a product, right? Not exactly. Michael Marchand at eCatholicWebsites writes that our “product”, if you will, is the salvific message of Jesus Christ. Marketing is simply spreading the word (or Word) about the sacramental graces found [...]
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