Pilot New Media: Parish Websites: Best Practices for Collaborating Parishes
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Some common best practices for parishes that share pastors and/or pastoral staff. From a New Media Forum on October 24, 2012 in the Archdiocese of Boston. http://www.pilotnewmedia.com/parishwebsites
Pilot New Media: Parish Websites: Best Practices for Collaborating Parishes
- 1. Parish Websites: Overview and Best Practices New Media Forum 2012 presented by Pilot New Media of the Pilot Media Group Catholic Media Secretariat of the Archdiocese of
- 2. Welcome Scot Landry Secretary for Catholic Media
- 3. Parish Websites Schedule 1:30 - Welcome and Introductions - Scot Landry 1:35 - Best practices for parish websites when sharing pastor/pastoral staff - Domenico Bettinelli 2:00 - OSV websites, special content, and online giving demonstration - Eileen Herrington, OSV
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- 6. Pilot Bulletins/Pilot Printing nting bulletins for 86 parishes with 14 more coming
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- 10. Parish Websites
- 11. Parish Websites Why have we partnered with Our Sunday Visitor? The state of parish websites in RCAB: A review About one-third with a website that substantially adheres to best practices About one-third with a website that needs refreshing or upgrades to substantially adhere to best practices About one-third do not have a website of their own or have one that’s out-of-date
- 12. Parish Websites Since our forum in October 2011, more than 20 parishes have begun a website with Our Sunday Visitor Radius Web Tools. About an equal number have contacted us about upgrading their websites
- 13. Parish Websites 2011 Parish Website Forum Video, presentations, resources available at www.pilotnewmedia.com/parishwebsites These presentations will appear on that page soon. Social Media Forums www.pilotnewmedia.com/parishsocialme dia
- 14. Parish Websites when sharing a pastor or pastoral staff
- 15. for collaboratives (or sharing staff) for collaboratives (or sharing staff) One Portal to Multiple Sites One Website with Multiple Departments Multiple Separate Websites
- 16. Reasons to use each type of site Portal The parishes already have good websites The parishes want to cooperate and coordinate online but continue separate identities
- 17. Reasons to use each type of site One Website, Multiple Departments The parishes are already closely aligned Shared calendar that rolls up from sub- calendars for each parish Many of the ministries are done in collaboration Ease of maintenance and updating
- 18. Reasons to use each type of site Multiple Websites Parishes want to maintain distinct identity Separate calendars One or more of the parishes have a good website, while the rest need a new website Might involve multiple content management systems
- 19. Common Best Practiceswith carious sub- Unified calendar calendars Sacramental information & Mass times for all the parishes on every site, if more than one Easy to find information about matters important to parishioners of each parish Unified information for newcomers and interested seekers
- 20. Common Best Practices Options Shared branding or other linkages such as Common taglines or slogans Logo Mission statement Prominent home page links
- 21. Multi-Parish Websites The Future?
- 22. sharing pastors or pastoral staff sharing pastors or pastoral staff http://www.pilotnewmedia.com/parishw ebsites http://www.videos.pilotnewmedia.com http://www.bostoncatholiclive.com Questions?