by John Freund, CM | Sep 29, 2012 | Vincentian Family
The English language portion of famvin has just converted to a mobile device format …phones, tablets, etc. (Don’t worry… it still works quite well on a desk top!) Since by the end of 2013Â Â there will be more smartphones surfing the web than there...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 4, 2011 | Vincentian Family
PARIS: Under the heading of “Every Council on Internet”, the website of the General Council of the St Vincent de Paul Society (Link no longer active) has a message indicating that the Comission for International Communications is encouraging each Council...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 20, 2010 | Vincentian Family
On June 20, 1647, St. Vincent cried out very spontaneously at a meeting of the General Council of the Daughters of Charity: “Oh, my God, how necessary it is to have great communication with one another. To share everything. There is nothing more necessary. That is...
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 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...