FAMVIN: The International Vincentian Family

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, FlipVideo, Wikipedia, Podcasts, Blogs… These are but a few of the buzzwords and tools that are reshaping how we communicate in an Internet Age.
The time seems to have come to begin to catalog what is actually going on in the Vincentian Family.
So the question for discussion in this week’s featured post is [...]

Blogs are a powerful advocacy tool. The internationally successful “Blog Action Day” was October 15 2008. The topic was poverty. We’re going to work towards an international “Vincentian Blog Action Day” on the relationship of educational access to poverty reduction.

“Young Vinnies” from the University of Sydney  ended up raising over $10,000 in what was possibly one of the largest cross-campus appeals ever conducted! You should all be extremely proud!

Sr. Elizabeth Sjoberg (videos) has posted a brief video “A Day in the life at a Daughter of Charity novitiate”. It is very effective in itself and a fine example of how social media such as Facebook can be used in the service of our charism.

Sr. Elizabeth Sjoberg has added a beautiful video, “Prayer to Our Founders“, on her Facebook page. It is also avaialable at YouTube.

”I’m getting 200 new friends every day,” the cardinal said. ”You have to go where the people are and if the people are on Facebook you go there too” according to Zenit

“Coping with spam and Facebook” by John Freund CM looks at how the younger generation avoids spam by using Facebook, The fact that Facebook today numbers some 60 million users with 85% having a college degree should catch our attention also.

First came Facebook, the popular social networking site. Then, the believers’ version, Faithbook. And today Pope Benedict XVI made an unlikely addition to the ranks of social network users. He has posted for the first time a message on a networking site for young Roman Catholics, asking for prayer during his forthcoming visit to France. [...]