At the end of March, the Sisters of Notre Dame of Chardon, Ohio, launched a new website. This website is the centerpiece of a multi-channel online presence which includes blogs, social media and links to various SND ministry sites. The goals of our online presence as an apostolic religious community are to: 1) advance our mission; 2) attract vocations; and 3) engage supporters. These goals were uppermost in our minds…
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What are Your Online Challenges?
Today you see the new Catholic Web Solutions design. This re-design is part of our vision of creating a multichannel online brand for my community, the Sisters of Notre Dame in Chardon, Ohio. Last week I wrote about the four new SND blogs we launched in the past few months as part of the plan. With this re-design, Catholic Web Solutions becomes more easily identified with them.
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A Website is the Hub of Web Presence
Not long ago, leaders of parishes, dioceses, religious communities, schools and other organizations were pleased and proud to announce that their community or institution had a website. It was a major achievement. If they had a good website, it was because they (or someone else) put a lot of hard work into it. But today, a website is not enough to be truly present to our current members, visitors and…
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Facebook User Profile and Facebook Page: What is the Difference?
From time to time, people ask me about Facebook page and often they don’t know that Facebook user profiles and Facebook “pages” are two different ways to be on Facebook. The question came up again this week, so I thought it would be worth a few words here.
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Sisters Learn Social Media Tools for Communication and Ministry
One of the things I love most about being a woman religious and more specifically a Sister of Notre Dame is all of the wonderful women with whom I share that vocation. From my earliest recollection of sisters through my years of formation and ministry —I have been constantly amazed at the courage, imagination and ingenuity of sisters in forging new paths and using new methods to proclaim the Good…
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Our First Live Streaming Video Event
On Sunday, May 1, I hosted the first live streaming video coverage of an event at our Provincial Center in Chardon, Ohio. I did my part from my home in Maryland! Over two-hundred sisters were on-site for the four-hour meeting and through the wonders of technology—another 35 sisters at 25 other sites were able to follow the meeting live and submit questions to the presenters in real time.Thankfully, the webcast…