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

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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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own or have one that’s out-of-date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.
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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
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