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  1. How is Catholic Social Media content better than what we are using right now?

    How is your content better than what we are using right now? While some parishes do use our service as their sole source of social media content, most use our material alongside important local posts that focus on parish announcements, photos, an...
  2. Why Parishes Need to Publish Content Daily

    Do we really have to be active on social media every day? The numbers do not lie. Parishes that post at least once a day on Facebook report average household giving 44% higher than parishes that do not. But that does not mean a parish employee ha...
  3. What is Catholic Social Media?

    What is Catholic Social Media? Catholic Social Media (CSM) is a subscription-based service that provides daily, high-quality, unbranded Catholic posts for parishes to use on their social media channels. We do this through a web-based application ...
  4. The 8:1 Nourishment Rule

    USE THE 8:1 NOURISHMENT RULE  If you remember the bad old days of parish social media, you remember this cycle:  Post about Lenten fish fry Post about Triduum and Easter Mass times Post about Christmas Mass times Repeat! And what happened ...
  5. What Type of Social Media Posts Work Best?

      In addition to posting at the right times and following the 8:1 rule, another way to think about driving engagement and reach is the different post choices you can make on social media. At the end of the day, there are six ways to engage yo...
  6. Focus on Digital Evangelization

    As a Catholic parish that wants to reach out to as many people as possible with the Good News, where should you start? How about a place where you can reach more than 80% of the American population (ages 12+)? Or a place where adults spend more than...
  7. When Posts Go Viral

    To highlight the power of a post "going viral," we like to introduce you to Patrick Sharkey. When he first checked out a free trial of Catholic Social Media, Patrick was the pastoral assistant for administration at St. Nicholas Catholic Church...
  8. Adding a Cover Image to a Video

    When you create a post and add a video file to it, the Catholic Social Media system will automatically recognize it and give you an "Add cover photo" option on the bottom lefthand side of the video preview:  Once you upload a cover photo, that w...
  9. How to Edit or Delete a Post

    How to edit or delete a post you scheduling in Catholic Social Media.
  10. How to Use Post Personalization Parameters

    How to edit your post text personalization parameters and publish posts with them