WeShare VS. PayPal
When it comes to choosing the best online giving platform for your parish, there is a vast array of choices out there. From ones that specialize in specific parish giving, to nonprofits, to businesses — the choices are endless. When faced with so many selections, parishes should focus on what they really need in a giving platform.
5 Reasons Your App & Website Need to Work Together
When your parish app is synced with your parish website, you can provide accurate information and dynamic engagement for your parishioners. What are you waiting for? Is your parish app integrated yet?
Database Spring Cleaning
While database maintenance should be a “more than once a year” priority, it rarely — if ever — is. While you’re “Spring Cleaning” your homes and offices, you should also consider tidying up your digital files. Cleaning and updating your parish data is essential to maintaining your vibrant parish.
Avoid These 5 Mistakes in Setting Up Your Web Navigation
No matter how beautiful a website is, it needs to be accessible. Accessibility isn’t just a matter of your parishioners knowing the church URL! Once someone arrives, they need to be able to find what they’re looking for.
The Power of the Parishioner Email
According to a 2018 Radicati Group study, there will be more than 3.8 billion email users before the start of 2019, over 100 million more than the previous year. In other words, over half of the entire planet uses email right now. If your parish has yet to collect parishioner emails, or are doing it half-heartily, now is the time to jump into it.
Telling Personal Stories through Video
If a picture is worth a thousand words, how much can video communicate? You can harness this powerful media to share compelling stories from your parish! Have you created video testimonies at your parish? How have you done it?
Fresh Ideas for Saying Thank You to End-of-Year Donors
We often think about our parishioners stewarding their time, talent, and treasure. But what about us stewarding our donors?
4 Tips for Keeping Your Social Media Followers Engaged
Social media algorithms are tricky. Some days, it may appear as though you cracked the code with a large number of impressions, but then the following week, you get five views on your most popular weekly feature — what gives?
How to Fix Your Parish Website in 4 Easy Steps
Fact: Technology changes at a rapid pace every day. Because of this, we as a Church need to change with it if we want to continue bringing more people through our doors.
5 Steps to Engage Inactive Parishioners
With a comprehensive management and engagement platform, engaging inactive parishioners is possible, measurable, and simplified.
7 YouTube Channels to Grow Your Faith
Videos can supplement faith formation lessons or offer a compelling message to people who visit your parish website. We tracked down seven Catholic YouTube channels to help you and your community grow in faith.
Top Catechist Apps & Websites
With the advancement of so many apps these days, it’s hard to know which ones to use for faith formation. Is your parish interested in incorporating technology in lessons, but not sure where to start?