Catholic Tech Talk

“Update your website!” “Create a Facebook page!” “Post videos online!” “Engage your members during Mass!” Amid the commotion surrounding New Media, we hear from our Holy Father this year’s World Communications Day message: “Silence is an integral element of communication; in its absence, words rich in content cannot exist.” Finally, a refreshing reminder to take [...]

I just got back from the 2012 Interactive Connections conference.  It was a great couple of days of information sharing, discussions, along with a few good debates.  It is great to see the church awaken (albeit slowly) to the power of Internet and technology.  I loved in particular Father Rice’s (@lrice) keynote address.  It was [...]

I’ve been thinking a great deal lately on what makes a great church website.  I’ve seen some beautiful websites, gorgeous sites that are virtually non-functional and, on the other end of the spectrum, there are those content rich sites that are so densely packed with information they can only be used by experienced research librarians [...]

As I drove into work today, I was surprised to hear two of the main stories beyond the upcoming presidential election were both on Social Media.  One was a brief interview from an Egyptian Author, Wael Ghonim, who just published the book “Revolution 2.0″ on the power for crowds, crowd sourcing, and social media to [...]

It’s nice to see so many parishes embracing social media and establishing accounts on services like Twitter and building Facebook Pages.  As I look at various parish websites that have staff email addresses posted I have noticed that many are obviously personal addresses (i.e. @Yahoo.com, @Live.com, etc.) I wonder how many parishes have a technology, [...]

As most internet users have found out, not all browsers are created equally.  Internet Explorer was basically the one most used for several years, but then quickly got tired of the fact that the internet moved faster but your browser didn’t.  Or that they made the application increasingly more complicated to the point of not [...]

Ever since I was a kid I have loved music.  I remember spending hours sifting through and listening to 45′s (yes, I’m that old).  Later on, like many people, I amassed the large number albums, then cassettes, and then CD’s.  There was always a few problems I ran into with these: Storage Finding the music [...]