Thanks, everyone, for coming to the blogging workshop at the FDLC meeting! It was fun to not think about the Roman Missal for a couple hours.
I’ve added links to all those Web sites I mentioned. Also check out the list of links below for many more resources to help you get your blogging and social media efforts developed. If you want to contact me, you can find me here:
- Email: Diana@teaminitiation.com
- my personal Facebook profile (please friend me!)
- my old liturgy blog, Work of the People
- my new liturgy blog on the diocesan Web site
Web site tools I mentioned
Free resources
- Blogger: easiest way to get a blog started
- Facebook: see all your friends and post updates
- Twitter: 140 character messages
- Issuu.com: create e-magazines from almost any kind of document or Powerpoint file (see this magazine as an example)
- UStream: A live-stream service for broadcasting live videos
- CoverItLive: This is the service Rocco Palmo uses on Whispers in the Loggia to do his live chat sessions. Go here for an example of it used on Rocco’s site. It’s a great alternative to video-streaming. I realized I should have used this instead of Twitter to send out updates of our study days.
Free and paid accounts
- Flickr: show all your digital photos
- Vimeo: show all your videos
- Podcasts: I know very little about how to podcast, so I don’t have a recommendation for a podcast service. But here’s a Google search on podcast hosting services
- WingClips: movie clips you can download, categorized by religious themes
Paid services
- GoToWebinar: create and coordinate live Webinars
- Constant Contact: send e-newsletters
- iContact: another e-newsletter service, which TeamRCIA uses (their fees are reasonable and also provide discounts for non-profit organizations)
The Powerpoint I used for the workshop
Here is something we didn’t talk about at the workshop. It’s called a feed reader. These are many of the church blogs I read on a regular basis. A feed reader is a simple way for me to scan the many blogs I want to read while reading only the articles that interest me. This way, I don’t have to go to each blog and scroll through lots of articles that might not be relevant to me. Some of these are also great blog examples (one by a Cardinal, and one by a Bishop!):
Miscellaneous links for your research
- 5 Reasons Pastors Should Blog
- 8 Ways to Use Social Media in Church
- 12 Practical Ways for Churches to Gain More Second-Time Visitors
- 55+ Must-Dos for Church Websites
- A Mission-Based Web Presence Needs to Be Engaging: Examples of Engaging Web Sites
- Catholic Web Solutions
- Church Marketing Sucks
- Common Craft: Explaining Complex Technology in Simple Ways
- Facebook Demographics and Stats 2010
- Finding Your Voice When Writing for the Web
- How the Internet Increases Intimacy in Relationships
- How to Use Facebook to Promote Your Church
- Message for the 43rd World Communications Day: Pope Benedict XVI
- Message for the 44th World Communications Day: Pope Benedict XVI
- NCR: A Blog Entry About Blogs
- NCR: Technology for Parishes is About Relationships
- New City Catholic Church: An Experiment
- Perpetual Learner: A priest’s blog
- Sunday bulletin from Parish of the Incarnation, Melrose, MA (PDF file)
- Texting About the Texts: Tweets from the Pulpit
- USCCB: Social Media Guideline
- USCCB: Office of Digital Media
- video sample: A Shift in Catechesis
- Why Pastors Must Blog and Ideas on What to Blog About
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