A workshop for the Mid-South Catholic Leadership Conference to focus on doing technology together in a collaborative model.

1. Collaborating Parishes &
Schools: Doing Technology
Together
Caroline Cerveny, SSJ-D.Min.
Mid-South Catholic Leadership Conference

2. Sponsored By:
Presenter:
Caroline Cerveny, SSJ-TOSF, D. Min.
President and Founder
Interactive Connections

3. A Conversation
And a sharing . . .

4. COLLABORATION
What “a reciprocal and voluntary
agreement between two or
is more distinct sectors, or
between nonprofit entities,
to deliver services.”
it?
Resource: New Models of Collaboration: An Overview (© 2003)

5. Specify the . . .
COLLABORATION • purpose of the
collaboration
Formal
• Allocation of associated
Agreement responsibilities, risks,
benefits, and resources
• Time-limited contracts
Resource: New Models of Collaboration: An Overview (© 2003)

6. • A minimum of two
organizations
IN GENERAL
• A formal agreement
Collaborative about roles and
Projects responsibilities
Involve: • A common objective,
activity, or project aimed
at the delivery of a
service
• The sharing or allocation
of risks, benefits, and
Resource: New Models of Collaboration: An Overview (© 2003)
resources – both tangible
and intangible

7. Is COLLABORATION…
EVIDENT IN TODAY’S CHURCH?
YES?
NO?

8. http://scccollaborative.wordpress.com

9. http://www.cecdayton.org/about-us

10. http://www.stjosephmantua.com/doyparishplanning.htm

11. http://planning.archspm.org/

12. COLLABORATION MODELS
Five Potential Models: Mark P Fulop, MA, MPH
1 Coalitions
2 Communities of Practice
3 Cooperatives
4 Cohousing
✓ 5 Industry Clusters

13. Coalitions
In a community coalition
• Concentrate the collective power of the
members and focus it on action.
• Typical have membership guidelines,
operating procedures and often bylaws,
governance structures and elected
leadership positions
• Shared goals and vision

14. Communities of Practice
Creation of learning guilds
• Support the development of shared
expertise and competencies
• Distributes knowledge, competency, and
building networks between people

15. Cooperatives
Drivers for cooperatives are seven principles
• Membership …a cooperative model has
• Control potential to encompass both
learning and action.
• Participation
• Autonomy
• Learning
• Networking
• Social responsibility

16. Cohousing
Property ownership and management
• Groups of individuals co-own homes that
have elements of both social contact and
individual space
• Allows agencies to retain independence by
designing and operating collaborations out
of a shared space.

17. Industry Clusters
Associations of companies
• Share the same market-space in a
particular geographic location
• Balances the needs of individual
companies and organizations against the
larger need of the entire market
• Goal of creating a NETWORK EFFECT
where the whole that is greater than the
sum of its parts.

18. Collaboration
What could it look like for your . . .
”If we are intentional about imagining what
collaboration could look like, it can serve as a frame for
a strategic conversation about the role collaboration
plays in strengthening the capacity of stakeholders as
they seek to expand, grow and achieve a common
mission.”
- Marc P Fulop
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19. Questions
What is the current environment?
Parish School Technology Parish Office Technology RE/Catechetics Technology
1. What are your needs? 1. What are your needs? 1. What are your needs?
What impact will What impact will What impact will
technology have on technology have on your technology have on
learning? parish? learning?
2. State the goals that you 2. State the goals that you 2. State the goals that you
hope to achieve by using hope to achieve by using hope to achieve by using
technology? technology? technology?
3. List the equipment that 3. List the equipment that 3. List the equipment that
your school already has your parish office already your RE/Catechetical
access to? has access to? already has access to?
4. List the hardware and 4. List the hardware and 4. List the hardware and
software that your school software that your parish software that your RE/C
needs to purchase to office needs to purchase to needs to purchase to
support your goals and support your goals and support your goals and
objectives? objectives? objectives?
5. How will you and your 5. How will you and your staff 5. How will you and your
students get the training get the training you need to students get the training
you need to use the new use the new resources? you need to use the new
resources? 6. How will the new resources resources?
6. How will the new resources be maintained, and who 6. How will the new resources
be maintained, and who will maintain them? be maintained, and who
will maintain them? 7. How much will all of this will maintain them?
7. How much will all of this cost? Where will the 7. How much will all of this
cost? Where will the money money come from? cost? Where will the money
come from? come from?

20. A Conversation
And a sharing . . .

21. In our parish, are we…
Silos or a Network?
• Organization Silos are when individual people,
departments, or companies, conduct business in a
vacuum without taking into consideration the impact
their actions have on the entire organization.
• Silos are basically large vertical buildings that
separate and store material on a farm. When
organizations run in silos they are not looking at
other aspects and the cause and effect of various
activities, so it is referred to as working in a silo.
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22. In our parish, are we…
Silos or a Network?
• The Networked Organization has been defined
by Lipnack and Stamps as one:
• "where independent people and groups act as
independent nodes, link across boundaries, to
work together for a common purpose; it has
multiple leaders, lots of voluntary links and
interacting levels."

23. Industry Clusters
Is this a potential parish cluster model?
http://www.processum.se/eng/press/filer/FOLDER_eng.pdf

24. A Conversation
And a sharing . . .

25. http://www.flickr.com/photos/traveller2020/1903977144/in/set-72157600110235419/

26. Christ Has No Online Presence
Christ Has No Online Presence but Yours
No Blog, no Facebook page but yours,
Yours are the tweets through which love touches this
world,
Yours are the posts through which the Gospel is shared,
Yours are the updates through which hope is revealed.
Christ has no online presence but yours,
No blog, no Facebook page but yours.
Paul Brian Campbell, SJ created this contemporary take on Saint
Theresa of Avila’s well known prayer, Christ Has No Body.

27. Sponsored By:
Thank You
• Caroline Cerveny, SSJ-TOSF, D. Min.
• President and Founder
• Interactive Connections
Email: c.cerveny@verizon.net
Blog: http://acyberpilgrim.org
Twitter: @ccerveny
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/c.cerveny
The Eucharist: In Communion with Christ and with One Another

28. THANK YOU!
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