Catholic Media Journal

On the companion website for his book, The Church and New Media: Blogging Converts, Online Activists, and Bishops Who Tweet, Brandon Vogt has an excellent collection of links to resources for effective Church communication through new media. There’s a wealth of information here for persons interested in Church communication at all levels. Jim Coyle

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Facebook alone, the largest social networking website, has over 800 million active users. Most of us use social media as part of our professional and personal lives. But even though people use Facebook, etc., not everyone understands their potential for reaching the community. If you need to encourage an organization to use social media as [...]

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In his new book, The Church and New Media: Blogging Converts, Online Activists, and Bishops Who Tweet, Brandon Vogt has created an excellent blend of Church teaching and Papal documents about Communications with stories by people who are applying these principles in real-life through new media creation and distribution in a variety of settings. Brandon [...]

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As I’m writing this, the Catholic Blog Directory shows there are 1,281 Catholic Blogs. (I haven’t counted them myself.) Technorati today identifies 3,759 “blogs about Catholic” (as I was writing this sentence, 4 more “Catholic blogs” were added to the list). On February 11, Anne Helmond mentioned in The Blogherald that Technorati reported tracking 112.8 [...]

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