Chapter II -THE GOALS OF YOUR WEBSITE

Your website is equipped to handle the following major goals for your parish:

1.0 Online Evangelization & Catechization
2.0 Administrative Management
3.0 Events Management
4.0 Email Communication Management
5.0 Ministries Management
6.0 Development & Stewardship Management

Each one of these goals are explained in great detail in the following sections. Please take the time to read and understand them so you may have a more enlightened idea of the many possibilities your new website can offer your parish.

2.0 ONLINE EVANGELIZATION AND CATECHIZATION

Evangelization is the mandate given by Jesus in the last chapter of Matthew's Gospel and it is the mission of ParishWorld.net. This section gives you a sampling of the Catholic content your parish members can access so they may gain a better understanding of our faith. This multitude of content is a key foundation to making your website "Completely Catholic."

- 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

3.0 ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGEMENT

Your website also comes with all the basic parish information you will find standard in ordinary parish websites. These administrative information allow you to provide your parish members with knowledge of parish services, contact information, requirements for Sacraments and more.

PARISH INFO

This section will explain how to your parish can effectively use the information contained in Parish Info to benefit the needs of your parish members.

- 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

This section shows you how you can assist the unique needs of your parish ministries using your new parish website.

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

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

Your website comes pre-set with one individual page dedicated for each grade level in your Religious Education system. It also comes with an individual page dedicated to ADMINISTRATION & REGISTRATION. We recommend you open each page and add your own articles and announcements as needed. You can add more pages if you wish. You can also delete these pre-set pages as you wish.

- Administration and Registration Information page
- Individual pages for each grade level
- Working with your book provider (e.g. Sadlier, Harcourt)
- Setting up class blogs for each teacher
- Collect email addresses from each class


VOLUNTEER CENTER

This section explains how you can inform parish members about your volunteer opportunities and encourage them to participate.

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

4.0 EVENTS MANAGEMENT

A parish is an event-driven organization. Therefore managing its events is a key component in any parish website. ParishWorld took the concept of Calendaring that one finds in ordinary parish websites and successfully adapted it to the support the unique needs of Catholic parishes.

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 articles show up as weekly e-blast headlines

USING E-BLASTS

5.0 EMAIL COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT

Unlike ordinary parish websites, your parish website is also a very powerful communication tool. Unlike ordinary websites that wait for readers to come to them, your dynamic parish website goes out to members of your parish weekly (unattended) or on demand (your prompt). It is perfect for your parish Evangelization programs and Stewardship campaigns.

UNATTENDED WEEKLY E-BLASTS

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

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

ON-DEMAND E-BLASTS

- How to set up special mailing lists for groups, ministries, etc.
- How to send an on-demand e-blast
- Ideas on how to maximize use of this ad-hoc feature

6.0 MINISTRIES MANAGEMENT

We have designed your parish website to manage the information needs of your parish ministries in ways superior to other ordinary parish websites. When implemented properly, parish ministries will see better dissemination of their activities and information as well as higher recruitment numbers and increased participation.

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 MINISTRY BLOGS

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

PROMOTING ARTICLES FROM MINISTRY BLOGS

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

PUBLIC VS. PRIVATE MINISTRY BLOGS

- How to use them
- How to set them up

BUILDING YOUR MINISTRY BLOGS

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

CONTENT OVERSIGHT AND PARISH CONTROL

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

7.0 STEWARDSHIP & DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT

Parish Stewardship and Development programs are greatly enhanced by the superior communication features offered by your dynamic parish program. With proper management and implementation, you will be on your way to increasing responses and higher results from your new parish website.

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

NOTES TO ACHIEVING GOALS
This section is coming soon.



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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
COMPLETE TABLE OF CONTENTS