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Web Administrator Assignment… Verify Your Mass Times

Web Administrator Assignment… Verify Your Mass Times

The Lenten season is both a special and a busy time of year.  For your church’s website Ash Wednesday may have been the busiest day of the year, but Easter isn’t far behind.  One of the websites I’m responsible for is my company’s directory site, Seek And Find.  Seek And Find is a church listing [...]

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A Call For A Parishioner Engagement System

A Call For A Parishioner Engagement System

Chances are your church has a Church Management System (CMS) such as ParishSoft, ACS, Logos, or Parish Data System.  A CMS tracks your church’s members, their pledges, donation history, sacramental history, and may help you manage your church’s finances.  It’s probably installed on one computer in the office somewhere and, if your lucky, it’s networked [...]

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We Gather Together To Scan? 5 Ways Parishes Can Use QR Codes

You may have been seeing these wacky-looking little images popping up everywhere.  If you don’t know what they are, they are called QR Codes.  Simply put, a QR Code is an image one can scan with their smartphone that directs the phone for a number of different purposes.  Some of these directions can be: – [...]

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Let Us Donate: The Case For Online Donations

This morning I checked in and read Joe Luedtke’s post “Why This Blog Is Important” and one thing (plus others) really stood out to me, “I pay all my bills online except for the check I write each week to the Church. ”  It’s one of those things I’ve been suggesting at my own parish [...]

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Moving to MailChimp

We’re moving our electronic newsletter from FeedBurner to MailChimp.

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Creating A Tech Ministry For Your Parish

Creating A Tech Ministry For Your Parish

There are a lot of ways that technologies can benefit a local parish.  Basically, you can break it down into two categories: Administrative Evangelizing Both are approached in different ways, but can crossover too.  For example, the website for a parish would be for both.  In my opinion, the best “recipe” for effective uses of [...]

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Introductions

Welcome to Missionaries to the Digital Continent, my new blog at Catholic Tech Talk! For those of you I don’t know, my name is Jonathan Sullivan. I should admit from the start that I am not a tech professional. I’ve been interested in technology all my life, but it wasn’t until college that I really [...]

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