This document discusses blogging and sharing family tradition stories through blogging. It begins with an opening prayer and then provides an overview of blogging basics, components of a blog, examples of blogs, and reasons for starting a blog to share family traditions. It encourages participants to brainstorm reasons for sharing traditions and provides guidance on starting a blog, including choosing a purpose, maintaining consistency, balance and responsible use, and focusing on visibility and connection. The presentation aims to help people use blogging to foster community and appreciation for shared traditions.
2. A Presentation by
Claudia McIvor, MSEd
For Wednesdays at the Webinar
North American Forum for Small Christian Communities
3. Lord, you have blessed us with
the gift of human ingenuity.
Let us, with every technological
advancement, witness your
Gospel and seek the common good.
Help us to grow in community,
in love, and in appreciation
for the traditions we share.
Amen
4. Blogging basics
Blogging terms
Components of a blog
Look at some blog examples
Brainstorm – Why do YOU want to
share Family Tradition Stories?
Start your own blog – a walk-through
5. Short for “web
log,”
a blog is a web
site
or an entry on
a web site that
includes
opinions,
thoughts or
commentaries. http://homesteadersheart.blogspot.com/p/crafts.html
7. Technology and Faith in the 21st
Century
http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-
ii_decree_19631204_inter-mirifica_en.html
8. MESSAGE OF Pope Emeritus
BENEDICT XVI
FOR THE 47th WORLD
COMMUNICATIONS DAY
“Social Networks: Portals of Truth and
Faith; New Spaces for Evangelization“
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/messages/comm
unications/documents/hf_ben-xvi_mes_20130124_47th-world-
communications-day_en.html
9. “. . . participatory culture is also one in which
members believe their contributions matter,
and feel some degree of social connection with
one another (at the least they care what other
people think about what they have created).”
Henry Jenkins, Director of Media Studies MIT
http://digitalis.nwp.org/resource/733
10. Term “weblog” coined by Jorn Barger on
December 17, 1997, a prolific daily writer on
the Internet
1999 “Blog” coined by Peter Merholz
2004 blogging became mainstream
2011 Vatican Blogging Summit
Catholic Use of New Media in the US, 2012
(CARA)
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