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 [...]
If we consider the Internet as a customer service medium, it provides a unique opportunity for priests, and especially pastors, to create meaningful relationships with parishioners. Rather than just another time sink, social media and websites can be a way for pastors to connect in a personal way in the midst of a busy world [...]
Facebook seems committed to an ongoing series of updates to its Pages for businesses and organizations to improve their utility in several ways. They recently rolled out a new iPhone app called Facebook Pages Manager, which we wrote about revently, and which lets you access all your administrator functions even when you’re not at your [...]
Facebook has released a new app for your iPhone or iPad called Facebook Pages Manager for, well, managing your Facebook Pages. In the past, it’s been nearly impossible to do any significant administration of your Facebook Pages with the regular Facebook app or with the Facebook website on your iPhone. (The website on the iPad [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Several months ago, Facebook introduced the new Timeline for personal profiles. Among the big changes were the very large cover photo at the top and a re-ordering of how your content shows up below. The idea, they said, was to make your Facebook profile more a chronicle of your life, and even suggested that you [...]
In this fast-paced and ever-more mobile world, the old bonds of parish and parishioner have broken down. When my dad was a kid in the West End of Boston, you belonged to your parish and no other. If you were to show up for Mass at at a neighboring parish some Sunday– even though both [...]
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