Catholic Tech Talk

So you’ve taken the time to set up your parish Facebook Page.  You’ve got some “likes” and are posting away.  It’s been fun and exciting, and now you might be wondering what the “pay offs” are and how to actually gauge the performance.  I was thinking this myself the other night.  I’ve been very pleased with [...]

Over the past two years, I’ve used three different email marketing programs:  Constant Contact, VerticalResponse, and MailChimp.  Don’t get me wrong, they’re all good programs.  If you’re using any of them already, congrats!  You’ve have one leg up on the majority of your peers. If you’re not using any of these or not really sure [...]

I’ve seen lots of blog posts and articles advocating podcasting your church’s homilies.  Unfortunately, unless your quite geeky, this can prove to be a daunting task.  Its actually rather simple, If you know the technologies pieces and how they go together.  I ran across this article from the Catholic Diocese of Sacramento describing in technical [...]

You may already be one of the 18+ million viewers of this video: (Search “Jesus Religion” on Google and you’ll see this pop up in the #1 spot) If you’re impressed by medium level production, anti-establishment propaganda, you may also be one of the 300,000+ people who “liked” it. If you’re like me, a bit [...]

Many of the comments and questions I receive on Catholic Tech Talk center around building a good church website, website design tips, and site maintenance.  The most common question I receive is one looking for examples of good church websites.  While I occasionally lament that there’s a lot of very poor websites out there, increasingly [...]

When I initially came across QR Codes (Quick Response Codes) I started seeing a lot of great possibilities for our parishes  (Click here to see my previous post explaining QR Codes and how you can use them in parishes today).  Lately there has been a slew of QR Code “bashing” and many saying they “won’t ever [...]