On March 30, all Facebook sites were converted to the new timeline, whether you wanted it or not. Many FB users voiced their preference not to have it, but to no avail. While Facebook has been preparing us for this change for months and encouraging us to make it on our own, I waited until the last minute to do it myself. Since then, I have done a little research…
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HHS Debate Finds Catholics on the Internet
The current debate over the HHS mandate requiring insurance coverage of sterilization and contraception has been widely covered over the Internet and social media. Fortunately, Church leaders and many Catholics are also there to present our case for the right to religious freedom directly to the public as well.
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Readers Most Important Topics for 2012
Catholic Web Solutions readers were asked to rate a list of ten topics as Very important, Somewhat important or Not important in light of their goals for 2012. See what they said.
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My Most Read Blog Posts in 2011
With this post, I am concluding my first full calendar year of blogging at Catholic Web Solutions. As I was thinking about all of the topics I have covered and all of the comments you have posted, I was wondering which posts were the most read. According to my Google Analytics report, the articles below are my top ten posts. If you missed one or the other of these posts,…
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Share YOURSELF on Social Networks
It is a mystery to me why people join social networks, but do not share who they are on these networks. On Twitter, instead of their face—we see that egg shaped avatar; on Facebook there is the profile with the question mark, and on some blogs the author’s identity is nowhere to be found. This does not make any sense to me. Social media is about relating.
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Blogs Are a Popular and Effective Way to Communicate
In a few weeks, blogs will be 18 years old. Blogs began as a log of a person’s day, thoughts, interests, etc. published on the web. The name “web log” was shortened to “blogs” in 1999 and five years later Merriam-Webster declared it their word of the year.