Be honest! What is your attention span? Noted social media guru Beth Kanter reflects on “How To Train Your Attention and Be Effective When Working Online”

Be honest! What is your attention span? Noted social media guru Beth Kanter reflects on “How To Train Your Attention and Be Effective When Working Online”
(There is) a movement sweeping the Catholic world: monks, nuns, everyday people of faith, and, most famously, the Pope himself, are embracing digital media
The second annual SVdP International Youth Videoconference is coming! In two weeks, onFriday, September 26 (Saturday, September 27 for some of you) at 8:30 p.m. in time zone UTC-6, we will be reuniting via the internet!
According to TechNews Daily Teens Get Grandparents on Facebook for Family Bonding. "In a surprising shift, more teens now want their parents and grandparents on Facebook, and are taking an active role in setting up their elders' accounts. "It wasn't too long ago that...
Adam J. Copeland, guest blogger at the New Media Project at Union theological, reflects on the opportunities and challenges of Pinterest in"Inspiration pinned: The rise of spiritual quotes on Pinterest" “Be uncommon.” “You are always stronger than you think you are.”...
Compassion International Commited to releasing children from poverty in Jesus' name and helping more than 1.2 million children in 26 countries, see the creative way www.compassion.com is using images to tell their story.
“We must not think of it as a ‘virtual’ space which is somehow less important than the real world,” Archbishop Celli said. “If the church is not present in this space, if the good news is not proclaimed ‘digitally,’” he continued, “then we risk abandoning the many...
For members of the Synod of Bishops, media is part of the problem, and part of the solution. See the following sampling of views... The Catholic News Service writes "The Catholic Church needs to use its media and social networks to spread the faith because much of the...
Below are four paragraphs (59-62) from the Instrumentum Laboris or "working document" prepared for the Synod of Bishops dealing with the subject of "The New Frontier of the Communications Sector". The document recognizes the challenges presented by digital...
Big Bird is not alone! The Mouse faces extinction as computer interaction evolves! School children today are among the first generation growing up with a computer interface that is vastly different from the one the world has gotten used to since the dawn of the...
Mobile web use is increasing by leaps and bounds. It can be quite difficult for web designers to keep up, since "Responsive Design" (building websites that look good on all sorts of screens) is still an emerging technology. FAMVIN is a communication vehicle for the...
Theological Ghettos and Social Networking? - Choices made for us can be limiting of what we are exposed to. Google, for one, doesn’t produce the same search results for each person. It collects all sorts of information about you from your location and previous...