"Generation what?" say the entrepreneurs at mobileserve. It’s true – there’s a new generation coming of age. Just as...
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Editorial: Collaborating to “Feed” the Vincentian Family
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | July 4, 2017 | News, Social, Vincentian Family | 0 Comments
Resources for Church Communications in the Digital Age (Stuff to Read)
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | June 27, 2017 | Social, Social Media | 0 Comments
Now on Social: It’s About Marketing
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | June 20, 2017 | Social | 0 Comments
Online Fundraising: Communicating Urgency
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | June 13, 2017 | Social, Social Media | 0 Comments
Implementing a Mobile Strategy
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Oct 10, 2017 | Formation, Social, Technology: Issues and Uses
Implementing a mobile strategy is no longer an option for Vincentian Family brnaches, because in less than a year more...
Pope Francis wants the Catholic Church to tackle ‘fake news’
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Oct 3, 2017 | News, Pope, Social
For the next World Day of Social Communications, Pope Francis wants the Catholic Church to make a contribution to the...
Planning a Campaign: Now on Social
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Apr 26, 2016 | Evangelization, Social, Social Media
Evangelization takes planning. Planning takes research. Research means reading a lot of current marketing articles. Often, when planning our evangelization initiatives we think of using social media. But we don't make a social media plan. What is this plan? A social...
Messaging. Where are you?
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Apr 19, 2016 | Social
The world is moving to messaging. We told you about .famvin on Telegram, and not many of you seemed interested 🙁 Many of you use WhatsApp. In a public Q&A session November 2014, Mark Zuckerberg explained: “Messaging is one of the few things that people do more...
The Future is Without Apps: Now on Social
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Apr 12, 2016 | Social, Technology: Issues and Uses
The future is without apps, or so they say.... We may soon no longer need to install apps with help from Google and Apple. “There’s an App for That.” You've heard it. It’s the trademarked slogan that defined the mobile world since 2008. Surely, apps seemed to be the...
Now on Social: Fundraising for Good
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Apr 5, 2016 | Social, Social Media, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
Throughout the Vincentian world, laudable projects go unfunded or underfunded. It's not because of the lack of resources available. It's often because of the failure to provide people with the opportunities to give "to their heart's desire." Online fundraising is a...
Now on Social: Evangelize like a Pro!
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Mar 29, 2016 | Evangelization, Social, Social Media, Technology: Issues and Uses
To evangelize doesn't mean only reading from the Bible. Social media trends ought to concern the “professional evangelizer. To all of you who manage webs, Facebook pages, twitter accounts...whatever... this is for you! As of January 2015, 80% of Internet users own a...
Now on Social: Busted Halo for Triduum
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Mar 22, 2016 | Social
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HugMM_3FfnI&feature=youtu.be&t=40s Catholic Christian belief is that all God’s children are “saints in the making.” Everyone is called to aspire toward the holiness and selflessness of a Mother Teresa or Saint Francis. At the...
Now on Social: Get a feed reader for your favorite sites
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Mar 15, 2016 | Social, Technology: Issues and Uses
Do you have favorite sites you go to regularly to feed your soul or keep you updated? Allison Gingras writes, Do you remember where you saw that great article on … well anything, really? I can barely remember where I put my shoes most days never mind keeping straight...
The Tweetable Pope
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Mar 8, 2016 | News, Pope, Social, Social Media
Tweetable. It means that the things you say can capture the imagination in 140 characters or less! Certainly, Pope Francis qualifies. MillenialJournal, which characterizes itself as "young Catholics -- ancient faith -- new century," has published an interview with...
Now on Social: The GrantSpace Blog
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Mar 1, 2016 | Formation, Social
Often these days, a blog gets overlooked. Why? Because it doesn’t talk about missionaries, or ministers. It talks about volunteers. For sure, there is a great difference in a person who comes to serve because they are called: a vocation to ministry; or because of...