Catholic Tech Talk

Even though I’m semi-retired from the web development business, I still get asked all the time, “Who can build my website?”. I’ll attempt to answer that question.

Ignore this book and your blog posts will suffer. I should know – mine did.

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.

Tomorrow, I begin my trek to Kansas City and the 2011 Catholic New Media Conference. Considering the level of tech-geekdom in attendance, I expect many will have their smartphones and taking pictures. The question is – what’s the best way to share all of them?

Sitemaps are not just for making your website easier to navigate for visitors. Search engines rely on them to index your new content.

How important is SEO to your web strategy?

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.

Last April, we upgraded the Community Forum software to IP. Board 3. We enabled all the bells-and-whistles you could possibly imagine, but it never caught on.

At home this past weekend, I got fed-up with our Wi-Fi dead-spot. The problem is our Wi-Fi router is in my basement office, and our AppleTV – which is wireless – is in the upstairs living-room on the other side of the house. So, I grabbed a couple items that were lying around and built a Parabolic Reflector.

The Church and New Media: Blogging Converts, Online Activists, and Bishops Who Tweet (Our Sunday Visitor, August 2011) is a new book by Brandon Vogt that reveals the benefits, dangers, and potential of new media. It covers many of today’s most popular digital tools including blogs, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, podcasts, text messaging, and interactive websites.

After Google’s previous social networking failures – Buzz & Wave – I was a tad skeptical when I received an invite to join Google+. Still, I kept an open-mind, filled out my profile and dove in.

Skype interview with Father Chris Decker and Joshua LeBlanc. We discuss the upcoming CatholiCon Expo.

Suggestions on how Catholics should engage in online discussions.

Social networks like Facebook and Twitter can be a tricky business in a ‘workplace’ environment.

5 free Mac apps worthy of your workflow.

The Archdiocese of St. Louis is hosting a Eucharistic Congress, June 24 – June 26. To promote the event, they launched a website, and also produced an impressive video (see below) that demonstrates the potential of multimedia in the work of evangelization. The videographer, Lisa Johnston, has a background in photojournalism and has her own [...]