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Alienation makes for a different type of stranger. There are unseen wounds. https://youtu.be/fr1NumLiv54 [box...
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Want to Make your Facebook Page Beautiful?
Facebook says: The image you upload must be at least 399px wide–one that’s at least 720px wide will work best. You can...
Get your Vincentian Telegram Starting Today!
People are signing up for their Vincentian Telegram! Don't be left out 🙁 Wouldn't you like to be part of a select...
VinFeed: A News App for Your Phone
With the constant march of technology, more and more people are accessing their daily news on their "smartphone." In addition to the apps on VinFormation, Famvin is happy to announce VinFeed, VinFeedES, and VinFeedPOLSKA: news readers that draw some of the latest news...
How do you prefer to be contacted? Phone, Email, Text…?
Some facts... "Some 83% of American adults own cell phones and three-quarters of them (73%) send and receive text messages. People's preferences....The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project asked those texters in a survey how they prefer to be...
Should all Vincentians embrace Twitter, etc.?
It depends! Here are some words of wisdom from a long time Non-profit activist, Jayne Cravens. The primary goal of a nonprofit, NGO, government agency or mother mission-based organization in using Twitter isn't for its messages to go viral (to be retweeted/resent on a...
OSV Catholic Guide to the Internet
"...this year, (Our Sunday Visitor) in recognition of the Internet’s ever-growing presence in our lives — not just in our home and office computers, but in our cars, our TVs, our phones, our pockets and our purses — we’re taking a look at the apps, e-books,...
10 Digital Commandments for Religion On The Web
The Huffington Post presents an article "10 Digital Commandments: Dos And Don'ts For Religion On The Web" by James Martin, S.J..author, 'The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything".
Short-term assignments for tech volunteers
There are a variety of ways for nonprofits, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), schools, government agencies and other mission-based organizations to involve volunteers to help with short-term projects relating to computers and the Internet, and short-term...
Looking for free or low cost computers?
A general good source for all things tech is www.techsoup.org. They are the donation "portal" for the software and hardware industries. A blogger writes..."As a Catholic religious order fundraiser I often use them for donations of software." While some companies will...
Keeping it Grounded – Role of tech in the Church
First things first, technology (whether it be equipment, software, internet technologies, etc.) are tools to accomplishing things. Just like Priests began using cars to get around within their communities and telephones to better keep in contact with their parish...