The Internet is no place to travel alone. Once we start using the Internet and social media for mission—we start forming partnerships. These partnerships are especially helpful to people who are not-techy but want to use technology for what they are good at: mission. We need good partners and we want to be a good partner as well.
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Leveraging the Internet for Mission, Part IV: Workload
One the reasons people in ministry most frequently give for not using (learning) social media is “I don’t have the time.” No doubt they are very busy and probably wearing multiple hats. Finding the time is not as easy as it sounds. What often happens to hard workers is that they accumulate jobs. If you are good at what you do—more people want you to help them. What is also…
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Leveraging Technology for Mission, Part III: Members
While some people believe that leaders are the ones holding an organization or community back from using technology to support mission, members can be equally responsible. The fact that members may have little or no Internet experience beyond using email and doing research presents a challenge and an opportunity to organizations that want to integrate web-based technologies into their communications, training, marketing, and networking efforts.
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Leveraging the Internet for Mission, Part II: Leaders
In Part I of this series, I observed that leaders who want to be more collaborative and communicate and minister over the Internet, often have little experience with online collaboration tools. The digital continent is a foreign land to them. It is a new culture and a new language that they are not sure they can embrace. And if they do want to embrace it—they don’t know where to start.
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Leveraging the Internet for Mission, Part I: Challenges
The purpose of Catholic Web Solutions is to help Catholic organizations and religious communities think strategically about using the Internet and Social Media for mission. This transformation from old world to new world communications isn’t easy. As I work on projects with communities and organizations that want to move forward with technology (as opposed to those who have no interest at all), I see some common challenges.
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Seven Steps to Add Internet Ministries to Your Service Offerings
It is not unusual for people to expect a place of ministry or an organization to have a website. It is not unusual for people to ask if they can follow the ministry on Facebook or Twitter. And of course, all people in service and leadership ministries are expected to have and use email. So why are there so few good parish, diocesan and organizational websites? Why aren’t we using…