Statistics tell us that about 24% of adult Catholics attend Sunday Mass and we see with our eyes that fewer and fewer among these are young adults. Many dioceses and a few parishes have outreach efforts to young adults, but these mostly reach a percentage of those who are active in the Church. How can our parishes connect to the others? One way is through Facebook. #481475783 / gettyimages.com A…
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Facebook Increases Website Traffic
Whenever, I poll readers about their web presence concerns, getting more traffic to their websites either tops the list or is very close to the top. In this post today, I want to show you three ways you can drive traffic to your website with your organization’s Facebook page.
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Use a Facebook Page for Ministry, Not Your Personal Profile
Many parish ministers who are on Facebook receive friend requests from not only friends and family, but parishioners as well. They accept those requests and in time come to think of their personal profile as their parish ministry profile more than their personal profile. But what happens when the minister moves, gets transferred or retires? Who will communicate parish news then? Should people who want to follow the parish need…
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Checklist for Your Ministry’s Facebook Page
A Facebook page can be a very powerful communication tool for many ministries and organizations. And like every other form of communication, it requires thought and attention to details.
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Teens, Facebook, and Ministry
Facebook is still an important social network for teens, but their use of Facebook, (as well as Google+ and Twitter) has declined over the past few years according to a recently released report by investment bank Piper Jaffray.
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Social Media is Where We Minister
On last week’s blog, “The Year of Faith on the Internet—a Slow Start, ” I asked readers to share their online resources for the Year of Faith. Several readers were kind enough to post websites (mostly diocesan) that listed resources and events related to the Year of Faith. Jean Soto, a faculty member at the Tepeyac Institute in El Paso, Texas, raised this question: Glad to hear that resources are…