George Barna has published a new book called “Futurecast: What Today’s Trends Mean for Tomorrow’s World” (Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.). His purpose is to help the reader use the data available to “make strategic decisions about how to make the world a better place to live.” He covers a variety of areas from lifestyles, hopes, and dreams, to Churches and parachurch organizations, and demographics.” I was very interested in reading…
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The Church and New Media
Brandon Vogt’s new book, “The Church and New Media: Blogging Converts, Online Activists, and Bishops who Tweet”, released in August 2011 by Our Sunday Visitor is getting good reviews for good reasons. The twelve contributors are all pioneers in the use of social media for sharing our Catholic faith. They share what they have learned and how they want to move forward in using new media for good. Their contributions…
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World Youth Day 2011 and Social Media
World Youth Day 2011 takes places in Madrid, Spain from August 16-21. An anticipated one million plus people will be there to celebrate our universal Catholic faith with exuberance and joy. Pope Benedict XVI will be with them from the 18th to the 21st. According to the official WYD Madrid website, this is the first WYD completely connected to social networks.
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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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The Good and Bad News of Catholic Organizations on the Web
On June 28, 2011, Benedict XVI sent his first tweet to announce the launch of the new Vatican website news.va. This was the first tweet made by a pope and it was made in English on an iPad 2. For Catholics on the Internet, this is good news.
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How I Use An Aggregator
For the past few weeks I have been experimenting with publishing my own daily newspaper using an “aggregator.” I love it and it is totally automated and free. I read my newspaper everyday.