CNMC Part 1: Tips for Bloggers/Podcasters

CNMC: Part 2: Blogging Humility

Heidi who was travelling with children…well come to think of it, so was I…..got pictures up on her Mommy Monsters blog.

So since my internet was spotty and my computer absconded with (that's my story and I'm sticking to it) whilst I was on vacation, I got scooped by pretty much everyone there. What on earth is left for me to say? I had a good time? I did. I enjoyed meeting everyone? Well I did. I have always thought in terms of a Catholic blogging community. I've enjoyed "meeting" people through what they share on their blogs and now I have an additional dimension to add to that picture. I found a community of truly fun and funny people. They laughed until they cried at the "Binary Song"….ok I laughed until I cried at the "Binary Song" and surely I couldn't have been the only one. We joined together in faith, in worship and by Our Eucharistic Lord and by our fervent desire to see the Gospel proclaimed to everyone. And so we were exhorted in significant ways…in scripture, in the homily, in the main addresses…to join together as a community and to avoid falling into prideful behavior…but Kate got there first on the significant stuff so let me pick up the slack on the little things.

While we may be joined together by faith, and by worship, and by the Eucharist, we live in the world. We may need to spend time in pray and St. Padre Pio might have been able to communicate at times through supernatural menas without the use of a phone, or text message, or email, or letter, the rest of us need to rely on the latter. I'd like to encourage everyone to take a minute or several and join in some of the social networking tools that are available to us. I'd love to see deepen the sense of community in the Catholic New Media by utilizing these tools. At first we might be only talking to each other, and that will be fun, but perhaps we'll draw the attention of some of those around us and bring them into the True Community….ONE, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic.

4Marks is a Catholic Networking website similar to Face book. They were also a major sponsor of the Catholic New Media Conference. You can email me if you'd like to connect with me on there.

My Space….links to my page.

Twitter…you can find me via my email address sisterspitfire [at] gmail [dot] com.