by John Freund, CM | Apr 28, 2010 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
The annual cycle in Ann Arbor (or any place near a college) is completely predictable. In the fall, a horde of new students and faculty descend upon town to make their home here, and in the spring a horde of them head out of town to head to their next location in...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 27, 2010 | Collaboration, Featured, Formation, Social, Systemic change, Vincentian Family
What did we learn from the first meeting of the Vincentian Family in cyberspace? It seems like quite a bit. Before we fast forward to the future lets look at the statistics. In its short life VirtualVins.net was viewed from 290 different cities in 27 countries with...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 26, 2010 | Collaboration, Formation, Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
More than 130 Haitian professionals and friends of Haiti gathered at St. John’s University April 24 for the New York City launch of www.zafen.org, the first secure Internet pathway designed to enable Haitians to transform their economy. See full press release....
by John Freund, CM | Apr 24, 2010 | Collaboration, Vincentian Family
I will make a fuller report in a day or two but initial site statistics suggest that it was viewed, at least in some part, by well over 500 (and perhaps way over). We had Twitter, Facebook and Flickr feeds. Initial reports of discussions were quite favorable...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Apr 24, 2010 | Systemic change, Vincentian Family
If you are having trouble connecting with the Virtual Vins presentations, or would like to join by cell phone, login at http://vimeo.com and check these links for C. J. Willie’s presentation The Response Panel and Tweet away!
by John Freund, CM | Apr 24, 2010 | Vincentian Family
Having visited some 80 countries in the past 5 years Fr. G. Gregory Gay, CM presented a pictorial overview of the work of the Vincentian Family in the world today. The presentation took place at his Alma Mater Niagara University....