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- 1. UNLEASHING YOUR PARISH GEEKS OR WHAT TO DO WITH THESE WEIRD ANIMALS!
- 2. WHY GEEKS? • Geeks can make your ministries run smoothly • Geeks can help others reach their goals by providing the right tools • Geeks can enhance parish communications
- 3. FINDING AND PICKING YOUR GEEKS Geeks are not all created equal, but all can be useful Geeks aren’t all 20-something white males, quite the opposite in fact
- 4. DIFFERENT TYPES OF GEEKS Technical Geeks •Programmers •Network Specialists •Web Programmers Designer Geeks •Web Designers •Graphic Designers •Presentation Designers Consumer Geeks •Video Editors •Audio Editors •Photographers Technical Geeks Designer Geeks Consumer Geeks
- 5. TECHNICAL GEEK: THE PROGRAMMER • Most likely your least useful • May or may not be male • Works in C#, Python, knows Linux inside out • Worse: knows COBOL • Goto person if you have advanced needs
- 6. TECHNICAL GEEK: NETWORK SPECIALIST • Will set up your office wifi • Will deal with laptops so they connect to the office wifi • Will handle security • May also set up backup procedures • Will potentially deal with hardware issues
- 7. TECHNICAL GEEK: WEB PROGRAMMER • Will set up your website for easy updates by others • May handle mail setup with network geek • Will talk to hosting company • Goto person for e-newletter technical issues, and email merge
- 8. TECHNICAL GEEK: PLATFORM, NOT CONTENT • Does NOT create content • Does not create graphics • Does not edit photos • Does not write the newsletter • Does not choose colours
- 9. DIFFERENT TYPES OF GEEKS Technical Geeks •Programmers •Network Specialists •Web Programmers Designer Geeks •Web Designers •Graphic Designers •Presentation Designers Consumer Geeks •Video Editors •Audio Editors •Photographers Technical Geeks Designer Geeks Consumer Geeks
- 10. DESIGNER GEEK: WEB DEVELOPPER • Understand the needs of mobile platform • Is aware of 10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design by Jacobs • Is not scared of fluid design • Is aware of Colour theories used in marketing Colors and Marketing • Will implement your website platform • Tools: javascript, wordpress, html, css3, html5 and many others. (bonus points for Django, Ruby on Rails, etc..)
- 11. DESIGNER GEEK: GRAPHIC GEEK • Has a background in graphics design • Can edit photos • Can create newsletter layout • May work hand in hand with the web developer to create the graphical media used on the website • May create the whole website look with (or instead of) the web developper
- 12. DESIGNER GEEK: PRESENTATION GEEK • Expert in PowerPoint, but not necessarily a professional • Knows about and uses Prezi • Background in marketing could be useful • Good graphic eye • (definitely not me)
- 13. DIFFERENT TYPES OF GEEKS Technical Geeks •Programmers •Network Specialists •Web Programmers Designer Geeks •Web Designers •Graphic Designers •Presentation Designers Consumer Geeks •Video Editors •Audio Editors •Photographers Technical Geeks Designer Geeks Consumer Geeks
- 14. CONSUMER GEEKS: CONTENT, NOT PLATFORM • Do create content • Do create graphics • Do take and edit photos, videos • May write the newsletter based on layout created by graphics geek
- 15. MOTIVATING YOUR GEEKS Provide work-worthy experience to junior geeks Allow a geek-out experience (hackathon- experience) Allow professional geeks to try some new technology Geeks are well paid professionals Or hungry beginners looking for a job Geeks enjoy their work when they can learn something new Geeks want to see things change for the better Geeks will often volunteer in many organisations. Why not the Catholic Church?
- 16. GEEK PRIESTS: THEY EXIST! • Fr. Roderick Vonhögen • Bishop Tom Dowd • Fr. Cory Sticha (Montana) • Fr Darryl Millette (Saskatoon) • Saskapriest • SportsFathers
- 17. PARISH DATABASE • BIGGEST CORE COMPONENT OF YOUR COMMUNICATION PLAN! • A Big Beast to be tamed!
- 18. USAGE • Keep track of donations • Emit tax receipts at end of the year • SO MUCH MORE! • Keep track of families • Keep track of parishioner needs • Keep track of parishioner talents • Enhance COMMUNICATIONS
- 20. SHARING IS NICE • Installed on one PC: no sharing, access is controlled by physical access • Installed on a network: sharing within the office, access is controlled by a mix of physical and virtual. • Installed on a cloud: sharing wherever you are. Access is controlled by virtual only.
- 21. CLOUD OR NO CLOUD? • Access is based on roles. People access only what they need to. • Accessible from anywhere: a parishioner’s home, a senior residence • Backups are off site and guaranteed (best data security!) • Privacy and security is controlled by the strength of your password • Support for all platforms, tablets, cell phones etc…
- 22. WHO GETS ACCESS TO THE DATABASE • Donation follow-up (accounting) • Catechism / Religious Education • Youth group • Any and all ministries ACCESS IS LIMITED BASED ON NEED
- 23. IMPORTANCE OF EXPORT => FREEDOM • Export as XLS or CVS • The importance of the QUERY (lets you choose whom you want to export) • Export means you don’t care as much about the features in the database program (mail merge, email merge, etc..)
- 24. DONATIONS • Paypal • SquareUp (and iPad Stand ) • GetPayd (or Payd Pro for Interact transactions) (Youtube) The new generation doesn’t carry cash. The new generation doesn’t have cheques.
- 25. NON SOLLICITED COMMUNICATIONS • New Canadian Law! • Select appropriate recipients in your database • You need appropriate info first! Look for talent, known languages, interests. • Make each communication personal through the power of well thought out mail merge. Use relevant personal info. • Always use their name. No “dear parishioner”. That will be considered spam within 2 seconds
- 26. OPT-IN COMMUNICATIONS • Flocknote (ease of use, subscribing is easy) • Mailchimp (no cost for less than 2,000 emails) • Always allow for opt-out – it’s the law! • Each ministry in the parish should be set up for sending newsletters, reminders, etc.
- 27. TWILIO (DEMONSTRATION) • Sends txt or phone call automatically • Takes messages for you • Requires programmation (either a web programmer, or a programmer) • Very versatile – you could have a whole phone system! • 1 contact per second. Easily reach everyone within minutes
- 28. VOLUNTEERS • Cloud-based: access everywhere • Post your openings • Manage your volunteers (who can do what) • Reports are A+ • Used by major players (YMCA, Breast Cancer Association, Salvation Army)
- 29. SMALL COMMUNITIES • Google Maps demo • Ignio
- 30. SOCIAL MEDIA • Facebook • Twitter • Instagram • Hootsuite : to keep your sanity! • Parish App (Catholic Mobile Media) • ECatholic Websites
- 31. VISUALS: WE LIVE IN AN INCREASINGLY VISUAL WORLD • SlideTeam (for PowerPoint) • Parish Designer • Catholic Memes • ECatholicWebsites.com
- 32. “ ” THE CHURCH IS EVER ON A JOURNEY, SEEKING NEW WAYS TO ANNOUNCE THE GOSPEL. Pope Francis on Twitter – Nov 8th 2014 SOCIAL MEDIA