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  1. How to Schedule Content from the Calendar

    You can now schedule posts directly from your Calendar view in Catholic Social Media. This gives you an easy way to fill open dates and keep your content organized alongside what has already been published. Your browser does not support HT...
  2. Protect Your Computer from Cyber Attacks

    With the uptick in working remotely since 2020, cyber-attacks are happening more and more often. The FBI reported a 300% increase in reported cybercrimes since the COVID-19 pandemic began. According to a study by the University of Maryland, attacks ...
  3. How to create calendar events (for dioceses)

    Diocesan calendar events allow you to create, manage, and share important events with your parishes, schools, and organizations—all from inside Catholic Social Media. These events can be used for internal collaboration or published directly to paris...
  4. How to get a Unique Link to a Category in Resources

    You can now copy and share direct links to any Resource, category, or subcategory in Catholic Social Media. This makes it easy to point parishes, schools, or staff directly to the materials they need without sending them to the homepage. ...
  5. 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...
  6. Auditing Your Parish Website

    The dream scenario for any parish is that when people type its name into Google, the parish website is the first result. The nightmare is the reverse – despite your best attempts, you can’t seem to get your church into the first page of search engin...
  7. Understanding the Accounts Screen

    The "manage accounts" screen is broken up into three sections. Here's how to understand them: Summary Card This section gives you key information at a glance, such as your diocese's account owner, the status of your Diocesan Essentials subscripti...
  8. How to Use the Analytics Section

    You can see how your social media profiles and content is performing in the Analytics section. Toggle by month, year, social media grouping, and platform to easily get a pulse on your community. To see how each individual piece of content i...
  9. Archiving Parish Livestreams

    Since the coronavirus pandemic hit America in February 2020, almost every parish in the country has livestreamed or pre-recorded Masses. Several months into our “new normal,” the question is coming up more and more: how long should we keep these Mas...
  10. How Spammy is Your Email?

    Parishes are sending more emails than ever, and billions of messages crisscross the globe each day. For every legitimate message that needs to get somewhere, there are probably 3-4 that are scams, viruses, or unwanted marketing schemes. This begs th...