TABLE OF CONTENTS

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"Working to make your parish website Completely Catholic."

Chapter 0 - WELCOME TO YOUR USER MANUAL
Chapter I - KNOWING WHAT YOU HAVE
Chapter II -THE GOALS OF YOUR WEBSITE
Chapter III - CREATING YOUR ARTICLES
Chapter IV - MANAGING YOUR WEBSITE

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Chapter 0 - WELCOME TO YOUR USER MANUAL

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Chapter I - KNOWING WHAT YOU HAVE
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0.0 THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX

- Why the internet is so important
- A Magazine-style approach
- Why ParishWorld.net works
- We've helped many parishes

0.1 THE SECTIONS OF YOUR WEBSITE

DYNAMIC SECTIONS EDITED BY PARISHWORLD.NET

- Catholic News
- Knowing our Faith
- Diocese News
- Youth Life
- Daily Readings
- ParishWorld Blogs

DYNAMIC SECTIONS EDITED BY THE PARISH

- Around the Parish
- News Bulletins
- Pastoral Corner
- Youth Life
- Share Your Time
- Calendar
- Parish Blogs

STATIC SECTIONS EDITED BY THE PARISH

- Parish Info
- Ministries
- Religious Education
- Sacraments

MORE GLOBAL ARTICLES IN PARISHWORLD.NET

- Top Stories
- Stories of Hope
- LifeStyle
- Vocation News

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Chapter II - THE GOALS OF YOUR WEBSITE
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1.0 ONLINE EVANGELIZATION AND CATECHIZATION

- Search our pre-loaded database of thousands of articles
- Sunday Lectionary-based Catechesis
- Daily Readings and Reflections
- A Primer on the The Holy Mass
- A Primer on the Sacraments
- A Primer on the Holy Rosary
- Burning Question of the Week
- Forwarding articles to your friends online
- Weekly Whole Community Catechesis by E-blast
- Wanting to be Catholic?
- Spanish Language Evangelization

2.0 ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGEMENT

PARISH INFO

- Basic Parish Information
- Mass and Services Schedules
- Parish Staff Information
- Dynamic Maps & Directions
- Sacraments information and forms
- Links to Ministry Contacts
- Parish History
- Parish Patron Saint
- Register to be a Parish Member
- Wanting to be Catholic?

MINISTRIES

- Mini websites for each ministry
- Which ministry gets a mini-website?
- Parish oversight and comment moderation

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

- Administration and Registration Information
- Individual pages for each grade level
- Working with your book provider (e.g. Sadlier)
- Setting up class blogs for each teacher

VOLUNTEER CENTER

- Time, Talent and Treasure
- Announcing your volunteer needs to the parish

3.0 EVENTS MANAGEMENT

USING YOUR CALENDAR OF EVENTS

- Promote parish events using your calendar
- Posting Mass Schedules and intentions
- Posting Other Services & Events
- Import events into readers' own private calendars
- Private versus public events
- Using 3rd party calendars i.e. ParishSoft

USING YOUR FRONT PAGE TO PROMOTE EVENTS

- Around the Parish is your main headliner
- News Bulletins is another way
- Making your events show up as weekly e-blast headlines

USING E-BLASTS

4.0 EMAIL COMMUNICATION

UNATTENDED WEEKLY E-BLASTS

- How to define headlines for the weekly e-blast
- Ideas on how to maximize use of this weekly e-blast

ON-DEMAND E-BLASTS

- How to send an on-demand e-blast
- Ideas on how to maximize use of this ad-hoc feature

COLLECTING EMAILS FROM PARISH MEMBERS

- What information should you collect?
- Using the Subscribe key

IDEAS ON COLLECTING EMAILS

- Start with staff, ministry groups and youth groups
- Organize a "Parish Website Sunday" special event
- Bulletin announcements
- Pulpit announcements

5.0 MINISTRIES MANAGEMENT

LISTING PARISH MINISTRIES AND CONTACTS

- How to collect the information needed
- Ideas on posting information to the website
- Using volunteers and confirmandis

ENHANCE RECRUITMENT WITH MINI-WEBSITES

- Accessing mini-websites in the parish website
- Ideas on what to include in these mini-websites
- Sample Parish mini-websites
- Create a unique calendar for every ministry

PROMOTING ARTICLES FROM MINI-WEBSITES

- Bring them to the front page
- Send them by e-blast

PUBLIC VS. PRIVATE MINI-WEBSITES

- How to use them
- How to set them up

BUILDING YOUR MINISTRY WEBSITES

- How to create a mini-website for a ministry
- Setting up a Blogger account for blog admins
- Posting an article to the mini-website

CONTENT OVERSIGHT AND PARISH CONTROL

- Monitoring articles posted to the parish blogs
- Moderating comments to articles on the blog

6.0 STEWARDSHIP & DEVELOPMENT

USING THE WEBSITE FOR STEWARDSHIP

- Create effective Information Campaigns
- Set up a Stewardship mini-website
- Set up a Building Campaign mini-website
- Use e-blasts to provide regular updates

ONLINE TITHING

- Advantages of Online Tithing
- Your Choices for Service Providers
- Setting up with PayPal
- Setting up with Google Checkout
- Setting up with ParishPay

SPECIAL EVENTS MANAGEMENT

- Create specific mini-websites for Special Events
- Using photos and videos to generate excitement
- Using online payment to increase collection

PROMOTING VOLUNTEERISM

- Time, Talent and Treasure
- How to post "Share Your Time" entries
- Announcing your needs to the parish

7.0 NOTES TO ACHIEVING THESE GOALS

THE SECTIONS OF YOUR WEBSITE

DYNAMIC SECTIONS EDITED BY PARISHWORLD.NET

- Catholic News
- Knowing our Faith
- Diocese News
- Youth Life
- Daily Readings
- ParishWorld Blogs

DYNAMIC SECTIONS EDITED BY THE PARISH

- Around the Parish
- News Bulletins
- Pastoral Corner
- Youth Life
- Share Your Time
- Calendar
- Parish Blogs

STATIC SECTIONS EDITED BY THE PARISH

- Parish Info
- Ministries
- Religious Education
- Sacraments

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Chapter III - CREATING YOUR ARTICLES
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8.0 STEPS TO GETTING STARTED

IDENTIFY YOUR WEB EDITORS

- Enter your seed subscriber list
- Who gets to enter articles to the website?
- How to create a new Parish User
- How to edit an existing Parish User

COLLECTING THE INITIAL INFORMATION

- What initial information do you need to collect?
- Information needed for Parish Info
- Information needed for Ministries
- Information needed for Sacraments
- Information needed for Religious Education
- Information needed for Share Your Time
- Information needed for Parish Blogs

ONLINE MEETINGS AND TRAINING


- The many uses of online meetings
- Setting up with GoToMeeting
- Accepting a GoToMeeting invitation for training
- Sending a GoToMeeting invitation

9.0 WORKING WITH ARTICLES

POSTING ARTICLES TO YOUR WEBSITE

- How to enter a new article to your website
- How to load videos to the internet and link from article
- How to create URL links, Email Links and Page Anchors
- How to create a jump page to link from your articles
- How to load parish forms to your website
- How to upload and link PDF forms to your article
- How to save and print forms as PDF
- How to save and print web pages as PDF
- How to edit a previously posted article
- How to preview a posted article
- How to post a copyrighted article from the internet

WORKING WITH PHOTOS

- Copyright issues and use of photo releases
- What's in our existing Photo Galleries
- How to create a Photo Gallery
- How to add your own photos
- How to use non-JPG photos
- How to resize photos without photoshop
- How to create a photo slideshow and link
- How to place a photo into the body of your articles

WORKING WITH YOUR CALENDAR

- How do I log in to edit my Calendar of Events?
- How do I create a new calendar event?

WORKING WITH OTHER LANGUAGES

- How to enter Spanish articles
- How to enter Korean articles
- Availability of other languages

WORKING WITH PARISH BLOGS

- Which ministries should get a mini-website?
- Private vs. Public blogs
- How to set up a new blog
- How to enter/edit articles in the blog
- How to approve a Parish Prayer Request by email
- How to approve a Voices from the Parish by email
- How to link your blogs to your parish Blogs section
- Monitoring articles posted to the parish blogs
- Moderating comments to articles on the blog

WORKING WITH E-BLASTS

- Friday morning automated Catechesis e-blast
- How to send on-demand (ad-hoc) e-blasts
- How to set up a mailing list
- How to collect emails from your parish

ADVANCED EDITING TIPS

- Open multiple instances of PWadmin
- Use prefix codes to manage your article file names
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Chapter IV - MANAGING YOUR WEBSITE
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10.0 MAKING IT YOUR OWN

- Direct your own parish's Theological compass
- Your website is a perpetual work in progress
- It all begins with your parish bulletin
- Know your audience
- Deciding what parish articles to post
- Suggested Things-To-Do weekly
- Changing the parish articles on the front page

11.0 REVENUE GENERATION

THE TOP SPONSOR PAGE IS YOURS

- Generating sponsors for your website
- Creating or editing your Sponsors Wall of Fame

SECOND COLLECTION WORKS

- Suggestions for a Second Collection
- Selling the website

PARISH INCOME FROM ADVERTISING

- A Wonderful Revenue Source
- Why advertise in your parish website?
- Power in Numbers - How it works
- Developing Advertising Revenue
- Processing Advertising Inquiries


12.0 PROMOTING YOUR WEBSITE

BULLETIN ANNOUNCEMENTS

- Catechesis and Daily Readings
- Promote prayers & spirituality
- Encourage parish comments and questions
- Get volunteers with Share Your Time
- Push Ministry blogs
- Promote online advertising and sponsorship
- Promote email subscriptions

PULPIT ANNOUNCEMENTS

- Catechesis and Daily Readings
- Promote prayers & spirituality
- Encourage parish comments and questions
- Get volunteers with Share Your Time
- Push Ministry blogs
- Promote online advertising and sponsorship
- Promote email subscriptions

PROMOTE EMAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS


13.0 WEBSITE ADMINISTRATION

USER MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL

- Admins vs. Content Managers
- Who gets to enter articles on the website?
- Creating new Parish Users
- Editing existing Parish Users

MANAGING YOUR MAILING LIST

- Managing your ParishWorld-supplied emails
- Why it's important to collect emails
- What information to collect
- Subscribing through the website
- Hosting a web ministry Sunday to collect emails
- Tips on how to collect emails
- Sample Bulletin announcements for the new website
- Editing, changing, deleting subscriber email accounts
- Checking your weekly email stats
- Setting and managing Mailing Lists by groups

MANAGING YOUR EMAIL WEB STATS

- How to check and edit your subscriber email lists
- Using separate email lists for different purposes
- Checking stats for each eblast

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USEFUL NAVIGATION BACK LINKS:
Chapter 0 - WELCOME TO YOUR USER MANUAL
Chapter I - GETTING STARTED
Chapter II -THE GOALS OF YOUR WEBSITE
Chapter III - CREATING YOUR ARTICLES
Chapter IV - MANAGING YOUR WEBSITE
Chapter V - GENERATING REVENUES
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