Catholic Tech Talk

One of my favorite hymns (especially at Christmas) is “Go Tell It On The Mountain”.  In the olden days, going to a high place and yelling good news was a way to be heard over a large distance.  Compare this to everyone standing in a crowd and just yelling.  You’d never really be heard.  It’s [...]

When it comes to technology, we do a great job of telling people what they should get.  But we don’t often do such as great job of explaining why.   So we can tell Catholics and parishes all these great things they should get and do, but it’s time to back track a bit to [...]

Inaugural Catholic Tech Talk podcast. Review of the Blue Yeti USB microphone.

Yesterday, I fired up an account at Tumblr.com to use in conjunction with this site. You can follow our Tumblog at http://catholictechtalk.tumblr.com. It’ll be used as a microblog to capture things on the go. Then I thought, hey! … we need a LinkedIn GROUP. So, now we have that as well – so visit and [...]

Yes, I confess . . . I am an avid Android mobile user.  AND . . . I have an iPod Touch (which I essentially just use for music now) and an iPad at my disposal.  Some are die-hard advocates of one platform over the other, and I respect that.  I personally like both and [...]

So you want to create a Facebook page for your parish.  You may even be wondering why you are really creating one.  How do you do it?  Who will maintain it?  What do you post to it?  All are valid questions that will be touched on. First, a Facebook page provides a parish with several [...]

For most people in parishes over a good many years the weekly progression looks something like this: Attend Mass on Sunday.  Be handed a bulletin with announcements and some messages.  Socialize a bit after Mass. The work week and life takes place on Monday through Saturday. We encounter life.  The good, the bad, and the [...]

Twitter was abuzz last week with word that a Chicago parish had warned parishioners against using Facebook, MySpace, and other social media tools. According to the parish bulletin Facebook and other social media violate a person’s privacy as it encourages young people a message to ‘Publicize yourself!’ The problem with this is that one’s pictures, [...]

Last week, the Catholic ‘New Media’ world was abuzz with news that the Vatican had called for an international representation of bloggers to attend a first-ever conference on blogging being hosted in Rome.

Over the past year, many have been hearing about the new 3rd addition to the Roman Missal.  The USCCB has done a great job of providing tools and information online.  Some of the great online features are: Website banners Online video explanations of changes Powerpoint Presentations And much more Visit the USCCB page today for [...]

So you are thinking of creating a blog for your parish and not really knowing how to start or what to “blog” about.  Don’t feel like you are alone, we all started there.  The one advantage faith bloggers have over all other bloggers . . . an endless supply of content.  Ideas for blog posts [...]

The other day, a parish Priest called me to ask about my recommendations in regards to a mobile solution for his appointments and contacts.  As I always say, “Technology are tools that provide solutions.”  Here’s a problem and we needed to arrive at the best device to provide a solution.  Like most who might be [...]

There are a lot of ways that technologies can benefit a local parish.  Basically, you can break it down into two categories: Administrative Evangelizing Both are approached in different ways, but can crossover too.  For example, the website for a parish would be for both.  In my opinion, the best “recipe” for effective uses of [...]

We’ve completed the overhaul of our community discussion forums – and it’s got some incredible features!

Useful stuff from around the web…

Ever since the iPhone 3Gs came along, the Apple iPhone has been producing usable video and taking decent photos. The iPhone4 definitely improves upon it’s predecessor and the rumours surrounding the iPhone5 certainly sound intriguing.

This weekend I had the opportunity to watch a Twitter meme blossom right before my eyes. On Friday afternoon, in response to a fellow Catholic who had asked “Can someone give me the link to the Catholic Rules For Twitter? I never read it and apparently missed the rule that joking isn’t allowed,” I replied [...]

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