Caroline Cerveny is a learner leader and digital immigrant with extensive experience in education, ministry, and new media. She holds degrees in educational technology and religious studies, as well as a Doctor of Ministry. The document discusses evangelization, the goals of evangelization according to the USCCB, what constitutes good news, and how the Church can communicate the gospel message effectively in a digital culture through tools like websites, blogs, social media, and mobile technologies.
Christianity and the Digital Age: Sustaining the Online ChurchPremier Publishers
Reading the signs of time is crucial to a changing world. From its birth on Pentecost Sunday in the year 33 to date, the Church has had her fair share of troubles. In most cases, she has had to either be conservative or progressive – her adherents who pretend to be in the middle often suffer backlash from critics. The conservative or progressive schools of thought signal change in the Church either in ecclesiology or doctrine. Apparently, one of such changes rocking the Church’s boat is the world of Information and Communications Technology (ICT). Premised on these challenges, the researcher used the qualitative method to access the matter. The study discovered that given the circumstance, the Church is left with no option than to create and sustain an Online Church for reaching out to millions of Christians who are incapacitated while uniting a fragmented humanity. It was also discovered that New Media platforms are invaluable assets in breaking new grounds for evangelization. The paper discovered that pastors of souls should take advantage of the new media of communication and engage their faithful by not just creating an Online-Church but sustaining it.
Christianity and the Digital Age: Sustaining the Online ChurchPremier Publishers
Reading the signs of time is crucial to a changing world. From its birth on Pentecost Sunday in the year 33 to date, the Church has had her fair share of troubles. In most cases, she has had to either be conservative or progressive – her adherents who pretend to be in the middle often suffer backlash from critics. The conservative or progressive schools of thought signal change in the Church either in ecclesiology or doctrine. Apparently, one of such changes rocking the Church’s boat is the world of Information and Communications Technology (ICT). Premised on these challenges, the researcher used the qualitative method to access the matter. The study discovered that given the circumstance, the Church is left with no option than to create and sustain an Online Church for reaching out to millions of Christians who are incapacitated while uniting a fragmented humanity. It was also discovered that New Media platforms are invaluable assets in breaking new grounds for evangelization. The paper discovered that pastors of souls should take advantage of the new media of communication and engage their faithful by not just creating an Online-Church but sustaining it.
Revolutionising Libraries with Social MediaJudy O'Connell
With the emergence of tools such as Twitter, Facebook, blogs, wikis, LinkedIn, virtual worlds and more, it has become important to offer a more customer-driven, socially rich and collaborative model of service and content delivery from our libraries.
Social media has few barriers. It's not about budget or acquiring the necessary tools.
What we need are experienced social media staff who can lead our libraries into participatory environments for the benefit of all.
Here you will find many key links and resources to support the workshop Revolutionising Libraries.
New Media, New Evangelization: The Unique Benefits of New Media and Why the C...Angela Santana
THESIS BY ANGELA SANTANA. PUBLISHED BY ST. MARY'S UNIVERSITY IN SAN ANTONIO, TX. COPYRIGHT 2010. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
The Catholic Church, once a leader in communications, now lags behind the rest of the world in new media participation. This study on the Catholic Church and new media argues that the utilization of new media by the Catholic Church would seriously benefit its catechetical, evangelical, and other communications efforts by providing easy-access, cost-effective, community-building resources to the church members at home or abroad as well as to the rest of the world.
As a theological foundation for discussion, the author provides an overview of Church teaching on evangelization, media, and new media. Insights into the benefits of new media are then demonstrated using secular marketing, Protestant, and Catholic sources. Four case stories of different individuals and groups within the Church who utilize new media follow the literature review.
After reiterating the truth of its thesis, this study recommends that the Church produce a theologically-infused, methodological approach to new media use and that it encourage dioceses to offer resources toward strategic media use for their members.
A New Approach To Communication And Pastoral MinistryGarage Jescom
A presentation made by Fr. Jerry Martinson, S.J. at the EAPI's Social Communications in Pastoral Ministry workshops in 2009. Includes "The Church & Communications", "Mass Communication: Bringing God to Masses of People", "The New Areopagus", "Training for Ministry in the New Areopagus", etc.
Presented by Fr. Lito Jopson, Assistant Director for Programming of TV Maria
Organizational Seminar on the Parish Social Communication Ministry
San Carlos Seminary
28 May 2011
From Social Media To Human Media - critical reflection on social media & some...Niels Hendriks
This is a presentation by Liesbeth Huybrechts & Niels Hendriks given at the Glocal Conference in Macedonia in 2009. It makes a critical reflection on so-called social media and presents some design methods and projects dealing with social environments.
This presentation explains the work being done by Digital Democracy and VozMob and our ideas for collaboration between our two organizations, for N2Y4 Featured Projects Pitch Series
Technology and Faith: Responsible Use and Bloggingcmcivor
This PPT presentation is for Catholic lay ministers who formed a Digital Discipleship ministry. Our mission is to have a holy and responsible presence on the Internet. We first examine elements of responsible use, then look at what the Catholic Church is saying about blogging. Finally, we look at some popular Catholic blogs.
If you want to learn how social media, texting, and the internet can be tools you can use instead of things to avoid, this is the workshop for you! This basic introduction to some emerging tools and technologies will show how they can help enhance the ministries of the local church.
Revolutionising Libraries with Social MediaJudy O'Connell
With the emergence of tools such as Twitter, Facebook, blogs, wikis, LinkedIn, virtual worlds and more, it has become important to offer a more customer-driven, socially rich and collaborative model of service and content delivery from our libraries.
Social media has few barriers. It's not about budget or acquiring the necessary tools.
What we need are experienced social media staff who can lead our libraries into participatory environments for the benefit of all.
Here you will find many key links and resources to support the workshop Revolutionising Libraries.
New Media, New Evangelization: The Unique Benefits of New Media and Why the C...Angela Santana
THESIS BY ANGELA SANTANA. PUBLISHED BY ST. MARY'S UNIVERSITY IN SAN ANTONIO, TX. COPYRIGHT 2010. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
The Catholic Church, once a leader in communications, now lags behind the rest of the world in new media participation. This study on the Catholic Church and new media argues that the utilization of new media by the Catholic Church would seriously benefit its catechetical, evangelical, and other communications efforts by providing easy-access, cost-effective, community-building resources to the church members at home or abroad as well as to the rest of the world.
As a theological foundation for discussion, the author provides an overview of Church teaching on evangelization, media, and new media. Insights into the benefits of new media are then demonstrated using secular marketing, Protestant, and Catholic sources. Four case stories of different individuals and groups within the Church who utilize new media follow the literature review.
After reiterating the truth of its thesis, this study recommends that the Church produce a theologically-infused, methodological approach to new media use and that it encourage dioceses to offer resources toward strategic media use for their members.
A New Approach To Communication And Pastoral MinistryGarage Jescom
A presentation made by Fr. Jerry Martinson, S.J. at the EAPI's Social Communications in Pastoral Ministry workshops in 2009. Includes "The Church & Communications", "Mass Communication: Bringing God to Masses of People", "The New Areopagus", "Training for Ministry in the New Areopagus", etc.
Presented by Fr. Lito Jopson, Assistant Director for Programming of TV Maria
Organizational Seminar on the Parish Social Communication Ministry
San Carlos Seminary
28 May 2011
From Social Media To Human Media - critical reflection on social media & some...Niels Hendriks
This is a presentation by Liesbeth Huybrechts & Niels Hendriks given at the Glocal Conference in Macedonia in 2009. It makes a critical reflection on so-called social media and presents some design methods and projects dealing with social environments.
This presentation explains the work being done by Digital Democracy and VozMob and our ideas for collaboration between our two organizations, for N2Y4 Featured Projects Pitch Series
Technology and Faith: Responsible Use and Bloggingcmcivor
This PPT presentation is for Catholic lay ministers who formed a Digital Discipleship ministry. Our mission is to have a holy and responsible presence on the Internet. We first examine elements of responsible use, then look at what the Catholic Church is saying about blogging. Finally, we look at some popular Catholic blogs.
If you want to learn how social media, texting, and the internet can be tools you can use instead of things to avoid, this is the workshop for you! This basic introduction to some emerging tools and technologies will show how they can help enhance the ministries of the local church.
The Redemption of Technology Workshop (Theology of Technology) by Andrew SearsCity Vision University
This was a 5 hour workshop presented to the Boston Fellows program covering the following topics: Vocation, Theology of Technology, Theology of Work, Media Addiction and Life Balance.
Session for MSc Media Psychology students @salforduni. What does it mean to live and breath the web and how is technology impacting upon the self? Most importantly is the emphasis on our need for networks and how other people contribute to who we are and what we can achieve.
The invisibility of digital technology has produced a distinctively new generation defined by digital media the digital natives. Digital natives are those who were born into the digital age. The digital world is inevitable to the church. It has been noticed that it is difficult for the church to catch up with the pervasiveness of technology. Pastors will find themselves having little or no impact on the lives of digital natives if they continue to avoid social networking sites, where digital natives spend most of their time. If pastors want to have more influence and impact digital natives, they must embrace the social networking world of the digital natives. This paper examines the attitude of digital natives toward religion and how the church can reach out for them. Matthew N. O. Sadiku | Uwakwe C. Chukwu | Abayomi Ajayi-Majebi | Sarhan M. Musa "Digital Natives and Religion" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-6 | Issue-3 , April 2022, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd49637.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/social-science/49637/digital-natives-and-religion/matthew-n-o-sadiku
International Knowledge Network of Women in Politics (iKNOW Politics)UNDP Eurasia
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Media Mindfulness for the New Evangelization: A Five Step ApproachRose Pacatte, D. Min.
This presentation was part of a two-day media conference sponsored y the Daughters of St. Paul and the CANA Centre in Singapore (Nov 5-6, 2018.) This sessions is about integrating critical thinking and media literacy within the context of culture, education and faith formation for life and ministry in the era of the New Evangelization.
The Gutenberg printing press in the 1450s opened new technology that affected the everyday world. This change was part of a disruptive force on church and society – a Copernicum Revolution. New ways of learning and new resources became available. What happened then was a gradual, profound change not just in the ways people communicated but, in the ways, people thought and the ways in which they formed meaning. I believe similar changes are unavoidable now and in fact are already happening. Digital Culture is surrounding us in a variety of ways, is real and can no longer be feared or ignored in the Church. Today’s workshop will provide a place to begin exploring what is meant by Digital Discipleship and/or Digital Ministry.
In the 50th World Day of Social Communications message, entitled Communication and Mercy: A Fruitful Encounter, Pope Francis said that “emails, text messages, social networks and chats” can be “fully human forms of communication”.
“It is not technology which determines whether or not communication is authentic, but rather the human heart and our capacity to use wisely the means at our disposal,” the Pope said.
He added: “Communication, wherever and however it takes place, has opened up broader horizons for many people. This is a gift of God which involves a great responsibility. I like to refer to this power of communication as ‘closeness’.”
Goals:
• To raise consciousness – What does it mean to “lead” at a time of transition often referred to as “middle space” in our evolving digital culture?
• To identify the new skills (best-practices) that are needed to effectively engage in ministry in our evolving digital culture.
The everyday world around us is utilizing tools and social media in their communications world. How are our parishes engaged in this digital communications world? What can parish clergy, staff, and parishioners do to engage others in this digital world?
Rather than lament the loss of a 1950s model where churches were typically the center of social of social and cultural life in American, how do we adapt to a world where technology is an integral part of everyday life?
Pope Francis recently said "that if guided by the Holy Spirit, we can discover opportunities to lead humankind toward God" by using the Internet. Is this opportunity one of being a DIGITAL DISCIPLE? Being a Digital Disciple involves being a real person with a passion to share goodness, faith, and more in an online environment. Is it possible? What is the balance of digital communication and authentic and direct human relations? Does it just involve social media or is there more? What does it mean to be connected? What is the "attitude" that I bring to the digital environment? As a lay minister, when I communicate in today's online environment, what are my family, friends, and parishioners expecting? Is proclaiming Christ in the digital era a work of youth or of all of us?
The Technology & Pastoral Planning workshop explores what is important while planning and implementing technology into your parish (or diocesan) Pastoral Plan.
Yes, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest are the often used tools in our parish digital spaces! Yet these social media tools remain the tip of the iceberg. A number of other tools are available to you! Just because they are strange names does not mean they are to be ignored and forgotten. Rather these twenty-first century tools can each be valuable additions to your ministry resources. Many graduates of our Digital Discipleship Boot Camp have been amazed at how easy and helpful these tools can be in ministry and evangelization. No matter what your ministry these are a gift waiting for you. Come and See! You will be wonderfully surprised!
Building the Future of Catechesis in a Digital WorldCaroline Cerveny
A presentation for the sponsoring groups of Dioceses of Owensboro and Evansville and St. Meinrad School of Theology for the Catechetical Leadership Institute.
This 21st century presents opportunities and challenges. What do today's catechetical leader and catechist need to know about technology? How do we employ technology to transform and enhance catechesis? What does it mean to accept the challenge of, and actively participate in learning new technologies? What catechetical materials exist in a digital format and are we ready for them? What technology standards do we need to move forward? Come to engage in a conversation as we ask ourselves, how do we catechize in a Digital World?
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This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
The Indian economy is classified into different sectors to simplify the analysis and understanding of economic activities. For Class 10, it's essential to grasp the sectors of the Indian economy, understand their characteristics, and recognize their importance. This guide will provide detailed notes on the Sectors of the Indian Economy Class 10, using specific long-tail keywords to enhance comprehension.
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Under Augustus, the empire experienced the Pax Romana, a 200-year period of relative peace and stability. Augustus reformed the military, established efficient administrative systems, and initiated grand construction projects. The empire's borders expanded, encompassing territories from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to the Euphrates. Roman legions, renowned for their discipline and engineering prowess, secured and maintained these vast territories, building roads, fortifications, and cities that facilitated control and integration.
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We all have good and bad thoughts from time to time and situation to situation. We are bombarded daily with spiraling thoughts(both negative and positive) creating all-consuming feel , making us difficult to manage with associated suffering. Good thoughts are like our Mob Signal (Positive thought) amidst noise(negative thought) in the atmosphere. Negative thoughts like noise outweigh positive thoughts. These thoughts often create unwanted confusion, trouble, stress and frustration in our mind as well as chaos in our physical world. Negative thoughts are also known as “distorted thinking”.
2. Learner Leader
Digital Immigrant
Founder of Interactive Connections
Master of Arts in Educational
Technology and Religious Studies
D.Min. in Parish Revitalization
Educator in secondary education for 4 Years
Pastoral Associate for 2 Years
Diocesan Service for 16 Years
Congregational Leadership for 4 Years
Publishing Industry Electronic Media for 4 Years
University Academic Technology and Campus Ministry for 7 Years
New Media Formation since 1983 (30 Years)
3. What is Evangelization?
Pope Paul VI in Evangelii Nuntiandi
“evangelization is in fact the face and vocation
proper to the Church, her deepest identity. She
exists to evangelize
USCCB : Go and Make Disciples
http://old.usccb.org/evangelization/goandmake/eng.shtml
4. What is Evangelization?
Bringing the Good News of Jesus into every
human situation and seeking to convert
individuals and society by divine power of the
Gospel itself.
5. Goals for Evangelization
USCCB
To bring about in all Catholics such an enthusiasm
for their faith that, in living their faith in Jesus they
freely share it with others
To invite all people in the US whatever the social or
cultural background to hear the message of
salvation in Jesus Christ so that they may come to
join us in the fullness of the Catholic faith
To foster gospel values in our society promoting the
dignity and the common good of our society, so that
our nation may continue to be transformed by the
saving power of Jesus
6. Goals for Evangelization
Steeped in Prayer
Focus on everyday life
Evangelize Church goers with a deeper faith
7. What is Good News?
Loving God that is intimately involved with
us
Intermediary is Jesus
Salvation through Jesus’ sacrifice
God is with us still
8. Good News of Evangelization
Evangelization is the deepest part of our
Catholic identity
ENFLAME those who are already connected to
Christ
INVITE others to join us – in doing so
TRANSFORM the world
9. Evangelii Nuntiandi (1975)
Goal for communications media - while social
communications can reach millions of people, there
remains a challenge of “piercing the conscience of each
individual, of implanting [the gospel] in his heart as
though he were the only person being addressed, with all
his most individual and personal qualities, and evoke an
entirely personal adherence and commitment” (45).
The “person-to-person” form of encounter “remains valid
and important” and points to Jesus Christ’s own
encounters with individuals in the gospels (46). He
poignantly asks, “In the long run, is there any other way
of handing on the Gospel than by transmitting to another
person one’s personal experience of faith?”
http://www.capuchins.org/articles/Evan_Nunt_PPVI.pdf
10. ROME, MAY 5, 2011 (Zenit.org)
Evangelization in a world of
communications technology is the biggest
challenge the Vatican is facing today,
according to the president of the Pontifical
Council for Social Communications -
Archbishop Claudio Celli
11. New Culture Example
400,000 primary school children in Uruguay studying on
laptops
"From first grade," the Archbishop said, "they learn to
relate to and to know one another through the computer.
To find out something they go to Wikipedia, and they
connect from home with their friends. A child who lives
in connection with others, for example, understands
better what it means to be in communication." And he
will also be able "to understand better what the Mystical
Body of Christ is" because he will understand better what
it means to be in communication with the Church.
Nevertheless, the Vatican official cautioned, a paradox
exists, because "while one is connected, at the same time
one is very alone."
12. Basic Problem:
According to Archbishop Celli
How well is the Church able to
communicate and proclaim the Gospel in
this digital culture?
16. The Digital World
• Language
• Culture
• Skill
http://energise2-0.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Digital-Revolution.jpg
17. Language
Wiki • Text messaging
Blog • Photo share
vBlog • Video share
Facebook • Podcasts
Social Media • Webinars
New Media • Personal Learning
Twitter Network (PLN)
Microblogging
18.
19. How are people using New Media?
80% of Americans use social media.
68% of churchgoers want to connect with
their Church via social media.
79% of all adults use the internet -- 95% of
young adults
80% of Americans use email
85% of adults own a cell phone
87% of teens engage in electronic
communication.
20. New Media on the Internet
Every 60 seconds on the Internet:
204 million emails are sent
$83,000 in sales are made on Amazon
20 million photos are viewed on Flickr
100,000 new tweets are published
277,000 people login to Facebook
2 million search queries are made on Google
30 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube
By 2015, the number of devices connected to the internet is expected
to reach twice that of the global population, and it will take you five
years to watch all the video content that is shared across the internet
in just a single second.
http:ub.theclickdepot.com/The-Click-Depot-Blog/bid/275797/Every-60-Seconds-on-the-Internet
21. New Media on the Internet
http:ub.theclickdepot.com/The-Click-Depot-Blog/bid/275797/Every-60-Seconds-on-the-Internet
22. What is “New Media”
On-demand access to content any time,
anywhere, on any digital device
Interactive user feedback
Creative participation and community formation
Creation
Publication
Distribution
Consumption
23. What is “New Media”
Digital
Content manipulated
Networkable
Dense
Compressible
Interactive
24. New Media
Websites
Computer multimedia (video/audio)
Video Games
CD-Roms
DVD
NOT
TV, feature films, magazines, books, paper-based
publications unless digital interactivity
Source: Wikipedia.com
25. Social Media
Web-based and mobile technologies
Turns communication into interactive
dialogue
Easily accessible
26. Social Media
Internet Magazines
Internet forums
Weblogs
Social Blogs
Microblogging
Wikis
Podcasts
27. Social Media
Photo sharing sites
Video sharing sites
Social bookmarking sites
28. Social Media
Six Different Types
Collaborative projects (Wikipedia)
Blogs and micro blogs (Twitter)
Content Communities (YouTube)
Social Networking (Facebook – LinkedIn)
Virtual Game Worlds (World of Warcraft)
Virtual Social Worlds (Second Life)
29. Social Media Technologies
Blogs • Instant messaging
Picture sharing • Music-sharing
Vblogs • Crowdsourcing
Wall-postings • Voice over IP
Email
31. Three skill sets of . . .
Technology
Communications Educational Information
Technology Technology Technology
32. Three skill sets of . . .
Technology
Communications
Educational Technology
Technology (CT has Information Technology
(The study and ethical
boomed in the recent (an industry that uses
practice of facilitating
past, with the Internet, computers, networking,
learning and improving
email, VOIP, and video software programming,
performance by creating,
conferencing. and other equipment and
using, and managing
Communication is possible processes to store,
appropriate technological
in a large variety of process, retrieve, transmit,
processes and resources)
mediums and technologies and protect information)
– social media)
33. Three skill sets of . . .
Technology
Communications
Technology (CT has
boomed in the recent
past, with the Internet,
email, VOIP, and video
conferencing.
Communication is possible
in a large variety of
mediums and technologies
– social media)
34. Why use social Media?
St. Paul evangelized according to the media
of his time
Bishop Sheen did the same with TV.
Pope – Twitter
35. Our Media
Go where the people are
Reaches new audiences
Provides information in the manner that we are
used to finding it
Available and accessible
36. New Media – Authentic Voice?
How can I remain confident that we are truly
communication THE Catholic faith and my OWN
versions of the Catholic faith? My solution is to
saturate my writings with Scripture and the
Church Fathers – but especially the Church
Fathers. If I am to write an article or post about
the Sacraments of Baptism, I have to begin by
admitting the following: What did the great
Fathers, theologians, and saints say about it?
Therefore I try to constantly glean authoritative
passages from Church history.
Taylor Marshall– Church in the new media – Brandon Vogt
37. The New Media -- TODAY
We are expanding the message of Christ
and the apostles become our own
NOT changing the message … but making it
relevant to our time
38. New Media – Right Tool
Technology use
General public
○ 2% innovators,
○ 14% early adopters
○ 34% early majority
○ 34% late majority
○ 16% laggards
39. New Media – Right Tool
Technology Use among Catholics
estimate 1% are innovators,
9% early adopters,
20% early majority,
30% late majority,
40% laggards
Fr. Roderick Vonhogen – New Media
40. Helping Catholics to Embrace New
Media
Educate
Presentations, seminars, YouTube TRAINING
videos, newspaper columns, one-to-one witness,
Pope Benedict’s call to adopt new media
Encourage
Improve current modes of technology use
○ Email
○ Website
41. Helping Catholics to Embrace New
Media
Encourage
Adopt current modes of technology
http://www.xt3.com
Expose Excellence
SHARE what you find
42. Helping Catholics to Embrace New
Media
Evaluate
Where are we now?
Where we need to go?
PLAN with experts
Execute
Build the idea of what “users” want
Does not have to be expensive
Use Guidelines by USCCB
Social Networking Policy by your diocese
43. Helping Catholics to Embrace New
Media
Extend
Catholic TV
Homilies through podcasts
Parish blog, Facebook fanpage, twitter accounts
Evangelize
Go and make disciples – words of Christ
Media is NOT the message
44. Experience of Church
According to Matt Waner
We need to evangelize the way our audience
wants to listen
80% use some form of social media
68% want to connect with church using social media
Most regularly use email and text messaging to
communicate – most of these people do not read
parish bulletin – most are not registered with parish –
most don’t think about parish in between Sundays.
45. Experience of the Church
Pope Benedict XVI, message for the 44th World
Communication Day – May 2010
Priests stand at the threshold of a new era: as new
technologies create deeper forms of relationship across
greater distances, they are called to respond pastorally
by putting the media ever more effectively at the service
of the Word. ….
Priests are thus challenged to proclaim the Gospel by
employing the latest generation of audiovisual resources
(images, videos, animated features, blogs, websites)
which, alongside traditional means, can open up broad
new vistas for dialogue, evangelization and catechesis.
46. Parish Website
YOUR WEBSITE MATTERS!
Official Presence
Primary presence of WHO you are. Similar to
the sign out front.
UP TO DATE
Collaborative TEAM
Engage target audience
Create a “brand”
Opensourcecatholic.com
47. Parish Website
Two fold purpose
Visitors EASILY find information
Connect with parishioners
○ Mailing lists
○ Email, phone number, registration information
○ ENGAGE them on facebook or twitter
○ ALL OF THE ABOVE
48. Parish Website
Seek the guidance of professionals
Really knows about building websites
Spend more money on website than doughnuts
Less than a car
Within 4 seconds – find into
EVERY director of ministries should update their
own page
49. Parish Website
WHY SHOULD SOMEONE VISIT YOUR
WEBSITE?
Build the site around that
○ Confession times
○ Mass times
○ On-line parish registration
○ Parish ministry information
○ Tell story of your parish
○ LINK TO THE DIOCESE SITE
50. Parish Website
Reach people where they are
Early missionaries WENT OUT to the people
Email
Unsubscribe
Every subscription to ministry lists
PRUDENT in use
51. Parish Website – Reach people
Text messaging
Bulk texting
NEVER late at night
Opt our of messaging for individual users
DON’T give up
52. Parish Website – Engage People
Engage their hearts FIRST
"If your mission is to be truly effective—if the
words you proclaim are to touch hearts, engage
people's freedom and change their lives—you
must draw them into an encounter with persons
and communities who witness to the grace of
Christ by their faith and their lives," he said.
Pope Benedict XVI
http://www.americancatholic.org/news/report.aspx?id=2682
53. Parish Website – Engage People
Communication PLAN
Serious budget
Hire someone
Take notice of free services
Leadership within the parish
Catholic websites
○ http://the-american-catholic.com/2009/04/20/googles-top-
25-catholic-websites/
54. Rate Your Church Website
http://www.ccmag.com/2013_03/ccmag2013_03.pdf
55. Blog
What is it?
A personal journal published on a the Web
consisting of discrete entries or “posts”
Displayed in reverse chronological order – recent
appears first
Themed on a single subject
Because of the interaction, part of social
networking
56. Blog
Not only produce content but also build
social relations with their readers
Different than newspapers – viewers can
comment on what is being written
57. Blog
Post regularly
Record talks presentations (podcasts – only
audio)
Record homilies (video and/or audio)
Viewers can access from home
Church comes home
More than Sunday
58. Blogs and Community
Fuel true conversation
Builds community
Virtual choir
(http://www.ted.com/talks/eric_whitacre_a_virtual_choir_2_0
00_voices_strong.html )
while previous generations of moms gathered for Rosary
groups or play dates at catholic school playground,
today’s mothers tend to supplement their “real world”
friendships with the vibrant communities that have
cropped up around the Internet in places like
catholicmom.com – builds mutual trust, true dialogue,
and lasting friendship
Lisa Hendey
59. Blogs and Community
Entering cyberspace can be a sign of an authentic
search for personal encounters with others,
provided that attention is paid to avoiding dangers
such as enclosing oneself in a sort of parallel
existence, or excessive exposure to the virtual
world. In the search for sharing, for “friends”, there
is the challenge to be authentic and faithful, and
not give in to the illusion of constructing an artificial
public profile for oneself
MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS
POPE BENEDICT XVI
FOR THE 45th WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY
60. Community Beliefs
Contributions of each person are valuable
Share openly and honestly.
Be supportive
Believing that we all have something to
contribute - perspectives, talent,
Be grateful for contributions and for
participation. for the - just being there
There are those you can help and those you
can learn from.
AND Encourage more sharing
61. Facebook
Huge part of lives
500 million users (2010) – 70 languages
73% of 12 – 17 years olds have at least one
profile
7.5 million kids under 13
Used by businesses, organizations, and
governments
62. Facebook
Chat
Share photos (100 million every day)
Post videos
Share personal news
30 billion pieces of content monthly
63. Why use facebook?
Socializing or “hanging out”
Day-to-day news about their friends,
acquaintances, relatives, and peer groups
Collaborating
Validation or emotional support
Self-expression and the identity exploration and
formation
64. Why use facebook?
“Informal learning,” or learning outside of
formal settings such as school, including
learning social norms and social literacy
Learning the technical skills of the digital
age,
65. Why use facebook?
Discovering and exploring interests, both
academic and future professional interests
Learning about the world
Civic engagement – participating in causes
that are meaningful to them.
66. Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking
service and microblogging service that
enables its users to send and read text-
based posts of up to 140 characters, known
as "tweets".
Wikipedia
67. Visit to Twitter
Username
Tweets
Hastags
Following people
Direct messages
Shortened URLS
68. Podcasts
Digital media consisting of an episodic
series of audio files
From "broadcast" and "pod" from the success of
the iPod, as podcasts are often listened to on
portable media players.
http://catholicboard.com/utspodcast/introduction
69. Podcasts
www.SQPN.com – Star Quest Production
Network
www.CatholicAudio.blogspot.com Sonitus
Sanctus
www.CatholiciCast.com Catholic Cast
70. Three skill sets of . . .
Technology
Educational Technology
(The study and ethical
practice of facilitating
learning and improving
performance by
creating, using, and
managing appropriate
technological processes
and resources)
72. National Educational
Technology Standards (NETS)
Facilitate and inspire
Student Learning and
Creativity.
Design and Develop Digital
Engage in Professional Age Learning
Growth and Leadership Experiences and
Assessments
Promote and Model Digital
Citizenship Model Digital Age Work and
Learning
and Responsibility
http://www.iste.org/docs/pdfs/nets-t-standards.pdf?sfvrsn=2
73. Three skill sets of . . .
Technology
Information Technology
(an industry that uses
computers, networking,
software programming,
and other equipment
and processes to store,
process, retrieve,
transmit, and protect
information)
74. Technology Committees
Information Communications
Technology Technology
Educational Technology
75. 7 Keys to Use Media as Catholic
• Balance
• Attitude
• Dignity
• Truth-filled
• Skillfully Developed
• Experience-based
• Inspiring
76. 7 keys to use Media as a Catholic
Balance: How the Church says it
must take into consideration the entire situation or
circumstances, namely, the persons, place, time and
other conditions under which communication takes
place and which can affect or totally change its
propriety” (Inter Mirifica, No. 4).
Media consumers “should exercise self-control. They
must not allow themselves to be so beguiled by the
charms of the media’s products or by the curiosity
that these arouse that they neglect urgent duties or
simply waste time” (Communio et Progressio, No. 52).
77. 7 keys to use Media as a Catholic
Attitude
Critical awareness of the message
Why it matters?
○ Message affects us for good and for ill
How to?
○ Research and observation
Who makes it
Look for behaviors that are encouraged, discouraged,
rewarded, or mocked. Ask, “Does the use prompt
Christian behavior?”
78. 7 keys to use Media as a Catholic
Attitude: What the Church Says
“The means of communication ... enrich men’s
minds if their character and function is
understood. On the other hand, men who do not
sufficiently appreciate their importance, may
find their liberty diminished” (Communio et
Progressio, No. 64).
79. 7 keys to use Media as a Catholic
Dignity of the Human Person
Creating and using media that upholds, reflects,
and promotes and defends the dignity of the
human person
Why it matters?
○ Media exists to serve human person:
To enlighten us about:
- Who we are
- To spread information
- Build human community
- Love more fully
80. 7 keys to use Media as a Catholic
Dignity of the Human Person
How to?
○ Pornography
○ Online communities treat real people like objects
○ When face-to-face ONLY answer cell phone or
respond to text messages when necessary
○ Don’t post intimate details about family
○ Use technology to spread gossip
81. 7 keys to use Media as a Catholic
What the Church Says:
The human person and the human community
are the end and measure of the use of the media
of social communication; communication should
be by persons to persons for the integral
development of persons” (Ethics in
Communication, No. 21).
82. 7 keys to use Media as a Catholic
Truth-filled
What it means?
○ Conform to reality and lead others to reality
Why it matters?
○ Connects with people on level of emotion
Truth more compelling
Lies more believable
Pope Paul IV – teachers of faith are the witnesses to faith
– how are we using media?
83. 7 keys to use Media as a Catholic
Truth-filled
How to?
○ Use facebook to post links interesting to faith
○ Don’t avoid difficult discussions on-line
○ Never pass another work as your own
○ Exercise same charity with folks on-line as with
face to face
84. 7 keys to use Media as a Catholic
What Church says
“Every communication must comply with certain
essential requirements and these are sincerity,
honesty and truthfulness. Good intentions and a
clear conscience do not thereby make a
communication sound and reliable. A
communication must state the truth”
(Communio et Progressio, No. 17).
85. 7 keys to use Media as a Catholic
Inspires
What it means?
○ Can help us in our journey to heaven
○ Pointing us in the right way
○ Inspire us for the good
How to?
○ Avoid media that inspired in the wrong direction
○ Feature on blog or facebook songs that inspire
○ Don’t use media to “kill time”
86. 7 keys to use Media as a Catholic
What Church says
“Today it takes no great stretch of the
imagination to envisage the earth as an
interconnected globe humming with electronic
transmissions — a chattering planet nestled in
the provident silence of space. The ethical
question is whether this is contributing to
authentic human development and helping
individuals and peoples to be true to their
transcendent destiny” (Ethics in Internet, No. 1).
87. 7 keys to use Media as a Catholic
Skillfully Developed
What it means?
○ The media that Catholics develop should be GOOD
– as compared to the secular media
Why it matters?
○ Packing matters
Increases credibility and believability as well as hold
attention
How?
○ Do your research – visit websites
88. 7 keys to use Media as a Catholic
What the Church Says:
:“[Catholic communicators] have a duty in
conscience to make themselves competent in
the art of social communication in order to be
effective in their work. ... People today have
grown so used to the entertaining style and
skillful presentation of communications by the
media that they are intolerant of what is
obviously inferior in any public presentation”
(Communio et Progressio, Nos. 15, 130).
89. 7 keys to use Media as a Catholic
Experienced – based
Related to human experience
○ Rooted in realities of the world
○ Appeals to our senses
How to
○ Embed videos on blog or social networking page
○ Incorporate stories about self and life on blog
○ You have a sense of you
90. 7 keys to use Media as a Catholic
What the Church says:
“While he was on earth Christ revealed himself as
the Perfect Communicator. Through his ‘incarnation,’
he utterly identified himself with those who were to
receive his communication, and he gave his message
not only in words but in the whole manner of his life.
He spoke from within, that is to say, from out of the
press of his people. He preached the divine message
without fear or compromise. He adjusted to his
people’s way of talking and to their patterns of
thought. And he spoke out of the predicament of
their time” (Communio et Progressio, No. 11).
91. Basic Problem:
According to Archbishop Celli
How well is the Church able to
communicate and proclaim the Gospel in
this digital culture?
92. Caroline Cerveny, SSJ-
TOSF, D. Min.
c.cerveny@verizon.net
https://www.facebook.com/c.cerveny
https://twitter.com/ccerveny
@ccerveny
http://acyberpilgrim.org
http://catechesis20.org
http://digitalcatechesis.ning.com
Resource: Evangelization in the Digital Age,
Sr. Geralyn Schmidt, SCC