Catholic Tech Talk

We often say that Church needs to utilize Social Media to better connect with the youth of today as well as reach out to anyone interested in learning more.  Well, I couldn’t of found a better example of leveraging Social Media this week than Busted Halo’s Sacraments 101 series on YouTube.  This series does two [...]

Editor’s Note:  This blog post originally appeared in Lisa Hendey’s CatholicMom.com site.  It highlight’s a wonderful example of New Media in a Church.  Its a great model for every church to consider!  – Joe   I recently came across a tech blog announcement about the hiring of Thomas Sanjurjo as “Electronic Outreach Director” at Nativity [...]

Yes, I’m an Android user.  One of the first things I looked for was Catholic Apps for Android and found several, but we’ll focus on two here. The first is Catholic One by Aycka Soft.  This free app provides users with: Daily readings Prayers Rosary Access to the NAB Bible (when online only) Aycka Soft has been [...]

If you weren’t aware, October has been National Anti-Bullying Month.   When I hear the word “bully”, it sometimes seems harmless.  I picture that kid on the movie A Christmas Story.  The truth is that it’s not harmless.  In recent years it’s even been taken to another level with technology to what is now called [...]

This past year I read a great book by Jennifer Haigh called “Faith”.   The story begins in Boston in the 50′s and I remember this one little part standing out to me.  The Mother in the story gets her rosary, sits next to an open window in her apartment, and participates in a group [...]

The biggest story this week was probably the release of IOS5 and the iPhone4S. So, here are a few more delicious Mac morsels to munch on.

In the spirit of Twitter’s #ff (Follow Fridays), I’d like to introduce you to Catholic Tech Talk’s $FF or free finds.  A $FF is our acronym (yes, us techies and the Catholic Church love our acronyms) for a recommendation on a technical tool or service that is free or nearly free that can help our [...]

Among the top questions I’m asked when speaking with parishes about private social networks is “Why not just use Facebook”. Public networks like Facebook are extremely popular to say the least. Setting up a company or personal page is easy and free. The ability to reach people and share information is direct and simple. Parishes [...]

Jimmy, tweets don’t die, but they don’t go to heaven either.  They actually live forever out on the Internet. If you use Twitter, you tend to live in the moment.  Everything about Twitter is geared toward recency.  What’s ‘trending’ on Twitter is a familiar term for Twitter users.  As a microblog tool, you may think [...]

I’m spending the weekend at the Catholic New Media Conference and quite frankly, I’m impressed. The quality of the speakers, the content, and the questions are on par with any secular social media conference I’ve seen. There’s about 120 people here from a broad spectrum of parishes and dioceses and they’re all excited and engaged. [...]