Recently Facebook changed the rules regarding what can be on the Cover Photo of Pages. Previously, Facebook Cover Photos could not include text promotions or calls to action. Now we can include them as long as the text is not more than 20% of the…
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Tweeting Live Events
Twitter is one of my favorite tools. It is a quick and easy way to share links to articles and videos that I come across on the web and to share my own comments and observations on just about anything. It is also a very…
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An Exciting New Web-Presence for the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament
In February 2013, Provincial leadership and ministry directors of the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament invited me to help them update their web-presence in order to better Support their mission and ministries Promote vocations Engage current and future collaborators and supporters Advance education and Eucharistic…
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A Parish Attentive to Its Audiences
Often parishes limit the audiences that they address on their websites to the active members of the parish community–the insiders. They forget that visitors, new comers and inactive Catholics also visit the site and may not get any further than the home page depending on…
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Pope Francis: The Internet “Something Truly good, a Gift from God.”
On January 24, the Feast of St. Francis de Sales, the Vatican released Pope Francis’ 2014 message for World Communications Day which occurs on June 1. This year’s message is entitled Communication at the Service of an Authentic Culture of Encounter. In this message Pope…
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Diocesan Technology Day–A Sign of Hope
Congratulations to the Diocese of Youngstown for their day-long conference focused on Technology for the New Evangelization. The event took place on Thursday, January 16, 2014 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 at St. Michael Family Life Center in Canfield, Ohio. It was co-sponsored by the…