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A book every blogger should read

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

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Parish Online Communities – Private vs. Public

Parish Online Communities – Private vs. Public

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 [...]

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Underneath the Hood of CatholicTechTalk

Underneath the Hood of CatholicTechTalk

Do you check out our website, follow us on Twitter, on Facebook, via an RSS feed, or do you just wait for the emails to come out?  Do you think there’s a team of people behind the scenes executing all these functions for you, the reader, trying to reach you on whatever social media venue [...]

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Why Is No One Reading Your Blog: The Importance Of Tagging

There’s been a lot of good discussion on Google+ lately in regards to Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Catholics over the last week. Craig Berry then came out with a great post “Catholic SEO: A Failing Grade?”  When it comes to how search engines and discovery works on the internet a lot of people get [...]

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Why This Blog Is Important

Why This Blog Is Important

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 [...]

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The Fine Art of Blog Commenting

Do you know how the most valuable lessons get passed around?

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Anatomy Of A Blog: Creating a Great Parish Blog

Anatomy Of A Blog: Creating a Great Parish Blog

So you are thinking of creating a blog for your parish and not really knowing how to start or what to “blog” about.  Don’t feel like you are alone, we all started there.  The one advantage faith bloggers have over all other bloggers . . . an endless supply of content.  Ideas for blog posts [...]

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