Catholic Tech Talk

As a manager for over 17 years, numbers have a great deal of importance to me.  The biggest lesson I’ve learned in regards to interpreting data is that numbers “tell a story” and they are a key means to “hearing” your customers.  The great thing about the internet is that a lot of data is [...]

Make Sure This Doesn’t Happen to Your Church’s Facebook Page One of they keys to successful communication is needing to listen to the person that you wish to talk to.  The same definitely holds true for Social Media. Social Media is about engaging other people online.  That engagement includes active listening, monitoring the conversations and [...]

Yup, it’s that time of year again . . . Back To School.  Parents are gathering supplies and getting ready for that first day (if it hasn’t already come like here in Florida).  And this year, students may have something different in the backpacks . . . a tablet or ereader.  Many are still trying [...]

One of the great things about the iPad has been to truly bring print media such as magazines into the digital world without losing all of the great formatting we enjoy with them.  Now you can get great Catholic magazines this way on your iPad.  As a Florida resident and parishioner in the Diocese of [...]

Here are some of my thoughts on Google+ after one month. Leave your thoughts in the comment box!

Who’s Responsible for Your Church’s Online Strategy? As technologists, we’re only one big piece in finishing this puzzle.  Many of the challenges we have with encouraging technology adoption isn’t rooted in the technology itself, but rather the adoption of it.  Technology is just a tool.  Its how we use it that counts. When talking to [...]

You may have been seeing these wacky-looking little images popping up everywhere.  If you don’t know what they are, they are called QR Codes.  Simply put, a QR Code is an image one can scan with their smartphone that directs the phone for a number of different purposes.  Some of these directions can be: – [...]

I love hindsight.  I just don’t get it early enough. Here’s some remarkable foresight from a project from the Latitude research organization that asked a group of children to draw their vision for computers in the future.  They accurately predicted Google’s Image Search and the beginnings of solar powered computers.  Now if only scientists can [...]

This morning I checked in and read Joe Luedtke’s post “Why This Blog Is Important” and one thing (plus others) really stood out to me, “I pay all my bills online except for the check I write each week to the Church. ”  It’s one of those things I’ve been suggesting at my own parish [...]

A recent 3rd party survey of 500 Catholic Websites indicated that the top 3 topics most commonly found on the average Catholic Website fell into these categories: 1.  Under Construction – We seem to like talking about what we’re going to build, but struggle to get it done. 2. Coming Soon – We like teaser [...]

I’m of the generation that does not know the Mass before Vatican II.  I do not know how difficult that transition was for the Catholics who experienced those changes.  I’m not alone either I know.  The Mass and the language really hasn’t changed much at all in over 30 years.  Beginning the first Sunday of [...]

It’s been a crazy week since I announced last week that I was going to shut down CatholicTechTalk.com. Today, I’m happy to announce that Liturgical Publications is taking ownership of the website.

I’ve got a grandpa box. How about you?

I’ve decided to put CatholicTechTalk.com to rest.