Catholic Tech Talk

It’s been about 9 months since Google+ has launched, and many of us have gotten a good idea of what it’s all about and how it can best  be used.   The biggest misconception I’ve found is the tendency to try and understand the service through a simple “apples to apples” comparison with Facebook.  The [...]

The new Facebook Timeline for Pages has a lot of great benefits for a much richer visitor experience.  One the things I like with the change especially is the more prominent “tabs” display at the top and some really good apps that have been coming out.  For example, as I was recently ramping up our [...]

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 Christmas holiday, I had the opportunity to go back to my old church, St. Bernard, here in Wauwatosa, WI.  They have a new priest, Father Mike Barrett.  I hadn’t met Father Mike before, but I greatly enjoyed his homily and was struck in how he conducted mass.  His approach to mass got me [...]

Facebook pages can have great uses for our parishes, and any Facebook user has probably ‘Liked’ a page or two.  As ‘Admins’ of those pages we know we need to get those ‘Likes’ right?  And building the number of those ‘Likes’ is paramount often times for us too.  But have you ever wondered why someone [...]

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 [...]

Make Sure This Doesn’t Happen to Your Church’s Facebook Page One of they keys to successful communication is needing to listen to the person that you wish to talk to.  The same definitely holds true for Social Media. Social Media is about engaging other people online.  That engagement includes active listening, monitoring the conversations and [...]

So you want to create a Facebook page for your parish.  You may even be wondering why you are really creating one.  How do you do it?  Who will maintain it?  What do you post to it?  All are valid questions that will be touched on. First, a Facebook page provides a parish with several [...]

The answer to the question is – 42. OK, seriously…it depends – but my rule of thumb is no more than 5 times a day and preferably spaced apart. One of the first Facebook pages I ever set up, I had configured an RSS feed to auto-post to the page from a very active website. [...]

It’s been awhile since I reviewed my Facebook privacy settings. I’ve usually set things as private, but with all of the recent changes to privacy policy, I’ve considered just shutting the whole thing down (which I might still do in the future). I found a great article on how to ‘lockdown’ all of the important [...]