On June 21, I ran a workshop entitled "Parish Website Workshop." The second session was very specific for the way that we are rolling out websites for our parishes (using Drupal), but the first session was very general, and I hope that its something other faith communities can utilize. I also posted the slides of the presentation on Google Docs.
We were fortunate enough to have photographers for our wedding, who agreed to give us all of the processed from our wedding in hi-res digital. Most photographers charge you for access to the original files, since they can make so much more on printing the photos for you.
Anyway, we received our photos in August, and I've been wanting to get them on flickr ever since. Aside from having the on-line archive available for me and my family, you can also take advantage of services like blurb which will help you publish books from your flickr photos.
Just today I was able to get to finally upload these photos. There almost 900 of them so enjoy.
Here is a link to the Wedding Album Collection.
BLDGBLOG: How the Other Half Writes: In Defense of Twitter
Bravo! This is a must read for all my twitter hating friends. I love them, but like this author writes:
"Twitter is very obviously not the answer to everything, and it never should have been portrayed that way; but it also very obviously is not the death of humanism."
This dialog about the value of twitter reminds me of the days when I used to despise MySpace. It was ugly, and most of what was on it was tripe, but eventually I accepted that it was a format that many people felt comfortable communicating in.? In the end, how can I judge what and how other people choose to communicate. It is certainly their right, as its my right to choose what to listen too. And so it is with Twitter. I started using it two years ago, and I didn't get it. It's just been in the last few months that I've understood how it can be an effective communication tool, and so I use it.
The time will come when something more effective at communicating small chunks of information to a large audience will be invented. I will then be skeptical about it, then self-righteous, then adopt it, then evangelize it. In exactly that order.
A communicator should embrace any medium that allows them to express what they need to express. If its photography, prose, MySpace, Twitter, or something that hasn't been invented yet lets avoid judging the medium, and instead process the content.
Abducted boys' trail is growing hot
Thank God, it seems that after a very long time there is news regarding the investigation of our two Sunday School boys who were kidnapped by their non-custodial fathers last summer. It appears that they've found evidence that they were in Guatemala at some point in the last 9 months, and may in fact still be in Central or South America. That is an extremely vast area, so perhaps its premature to say that the "trail is growing hot," but its reassuring to know that they are able to narrow down the search.
I can't wait for these boys to return home one day. Keep praying for them.
Here is a another commercial for mitto we made. This one was absolutely hilarious to make.