Social Media-Related Articles

(In no particular order)

• Snapchat 2.0 Is No Passing Fad,  by Josh Constine (Techcrunch.com)

• Student Pastors, Stop Being Afraid of Snapchat! by Chris Martin (MillennialEvangelical.com)

• 11 Smart Ways You Can Use Periscope for Your Church Communications, by Steve Fogg

• Six Reasons Church Leaders Should Use Periscope, by Thom S. Rainer

• How Facebook Sold You Krill Oil, by Vindu Goel (New York Times)

•  How Social Marketing Techniques Can Be Used for Social Good (Adweek)

• A Visual Guide to Social Media Best Practices, by Rebekah Radice 

• Six-Year-Olds Understand Digital Technology Better than Adults, by Juliette Garside (The Guardian): 

• Eating the Apple, by Sam Sawyer, SJ (why Apple products inspire so much devotion, and what the Church can learn from that): 

• Why NonProfits Fail at Social Media—and How to Do it Better, by  Rebecca Andruszka

• Social Media in the Changing Ecology of News: The Fourth and Fifth Estates in Britain, by Newman, Nic; Dutton, William H.; Blank, Grant (2012).

• Facebook's newest privacy settings (good news/bad news): "Facebook has only 'pivoted' on one kind of privacy..." by David Meyer.
 

• Setting Social Media Limits for Children by Catherine Pearlman.


• "Changing our Minds: Virtue Ethics for a Digital Age" by Christine Neulieb (the spiritual questions and issues raised by the way our brains function on and are acted on by the Internet).


• Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction by Matt Richtel (New York Times); More from brain science. 


• "...Growing Up Digital Misses the Mark" by Don Tapscott: rebuttal of the above, citing brain science.

• "How to Raise Boys That Read" by Thomas Spence: Be sure to read the many, many comments for a lively conversation on the state of boys' reading (and the connection with "screen time"); some criticisms of current educational model.
 

• "Social Media Actually Strengthen Social Ties..."  Newswire article


• "The See-Through CEO" by Clive Thompson
 

• "Steve Jobs in the Garden of Good and Evil" by Eric Felten


• "We're Really all Victims of the Porn Boom" by Katherine Kersten


• "The Next Small Thing" by Spence E. Ange, Heather Green, and Catherine Holahan


• "Pauline Voices and Presence as Strategic Communication" by Richard F. Ward


• "Bridging the Gap Between Stewards and Creators" by Robert D. Austin and Richard L. Nolan (This article focuses on issues between management and research/development in high-tech corporations, but much of what it treats is applicable to any institution dealing with change!)


• "Media and the Spirit of God: Redefining the human person" by John B. Foley: This was printed in The Way; a contribution to their Solidarity Fund is encouraged.

World Day of Social Communications Messages

2014: Communication at the Service of an Authentic Culture of Encounter
2013: Social Networks: portals of truth and faith; new spaces for evangelization

2012: Silence and Word: Path of Evangelization  (NB: Synod of Bishops to treat of the New Evangelization)

2011: Truth, Proclamation and Authenticity of Life in the Digital Age

2010: The Priest and Pastoral Ministry in a Digital World: New Media at the Service of the Word

2009: New Technologies, New Relationships. Promoting a Culture of Respect, Dialogue and Friendship (on social networking)

2008: The Media: At the Crossroads between Self-Promotion and Service. Searching for the Truth in order to Share it with Others.

2007: Children and the Media: A Challenge for Education

2006: The Media: A Network for Communication, Communion and Cooperation

Messages for  1979-2005

Messages for 1967-1978

Social Media for Beginners

Social Media Bootcamp slide presentation by Wendy Maynard
The Conversation - An Introduction to Social Media slides by Tactica Interactive

Social Media Specifics
The State of Social Media and Social Media Marketing in 2012 slide presentation by Esteban Contreras

Coca-Cola's Social Media Strategy (2010)

The importance of following on Twitter, slide presentation by Communicate and Howe

To Small Nonprofits on the Social Web: 5,000 is the Magic Number! slide presentation by NonProfitOrgs

Are you “Unretweetable?” Five Tips for Changing all That slide presentation by Nonprofit Quarterly

Explanation of the Creative Commons licenses

Chart to help you determine the legality of using an image you found online

Social Media Guidelines

Social Media Guidelines: What's the Point? is an article I prepared on the purpose and key provisions ministry groups should have with regard to social media guidelines.

Catholic blogger and author Brandon Vogt tells the story behind the revised social media guidelines for the Diocese of Orlando. It's a happy story of "before and after" as the diocese moved to include the "social" in their approach to new media.

Justin Wise's "Ultimate List of Social Media Policies for Churches and Ministries" can be especially helpful. It's not exhaustive, but it offers a fine range, plus a link to Wise's free social media e-book--an example of the open source ethic of offering something of value at no cost (except for your e-mail address).

Here are some other organizations and their social media guidelines. It is interesting how many of these and similar documents are open to the public, available for download on services such as Scribd.

The Coca-Cola Company

The BBC

Ford Motor Company

Intel UK (a really good model!)

Tesco (UK) has a nice graphical approach

Advent Women's Retreat (Looking Ahead!)

It really is too soon to think about it, but not too soon to begin to plan for it: our Chicagoland Advent Women's Retreat has just secured Pat Gohn (coordinator of the "Among Women" podcast) as its director! It looks as though the retreat will center on the Women of the Bible. The retreat will be held, as usual, at St Peter's in the Loop, on the first Saturday of December (Dec. 1).

We filled up the sale cart with bargains, including a good selection of books and music in Spanish. Be sure to review the offerings soon!

Register now for Lenten Program!

Don't just watch Fr. Barron's "Catholicism"on DVD--engage it with others, using the extra study material with the help of an on-site guide!

Call (312.346.4228) or drop by to register.