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The Vatican has a widget for you

If you operate a Catholic website, whether for a parish, a ministry, or yourself, you might be interested to hear that the Vatican is now offering a website widget to give your readers the latest news from the Vatican, the Pope’s Angelus or Regina Coeli address, recent speeches and the daily Press Office bulletin. Once [...]

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7 Characteristics of a Great Parish Domain Name

7 Characteristics of a Great Parish Domain Name

Choosing your parish domain name (i.e. the church’s website address. For example, www.example.com), Facebook Page address (www.facebook.com/example), Twitter handle (@example), and so on is a critical part of creating your parish’s new media presence. The right name/address could be the difference between parishioners and newcomers regularly visiting to read what you have to say and [...]

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OSV’s Faith In Action websites debut

Pilot New Media collaborated with Our Sunday Vistor in the creation of their new “Faith In Action” websites solution. This was the same product we presented at our Forum last October on parish websites. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 2, 2012 CONTACT: Terry Poplava Director of Marketing, Sales and Customer Service Phone: 800-348-2886 Email: tpoplava@osv.com OUR SUNDAY [...]

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Your Parish Website Needs a Call to Action

While evangelization is not the same thing as sales—we’re not trying to sell Jesus to anyone—we can’t ignore the fact that there are elements of human nature that both sales techniques and evangelization share. The “call to action” is one of them. As we’ve said before, too many parish websites function too much like bulletin [...]

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Google Apps, now for Parishes

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 [...]

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DREs power-using the parish website

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, [...]

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Creating Excellent Parish Websites

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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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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Parish website tips

Parish website tips

It seems like everyone is talking about parish websites these days, and there’s good reason for that: Too many parishes are not using their websites to even adequate capability, and way too many don’t even have a website. In 2011, not having a website is essentially putting up a big “Closed” sign. The fact is [...]

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