We are pleased to announce that we have set up the Catholic Media Promo Bank. This page is a repository of all the Catholic podcast and blog promos, flyers, etc that I can get my hands on. This could be a useful resource for podcasters who wish to play Catholic podcast promos, or for podcast listeners who wish to find new podcasts.
Our goal at the Catholic Roundup has always been to help Catholics using new media to spread the Good News and to help other Catholics to find great Catholic resources online. If you have questions about setting up your Catholic blog or podcast, we are happy to help out.
A 1-3 minute audio promo is a great way to spread word about your podcast, blog or web resource. Podcasters are a sociable bunch and they are usually quite happy to play promos for other podcasts. A bit of your show music with some clips or a description of your show along with the website address are a good start. You can hear a promo for our show at http://www.cc.ductapeguy.net/40days/CNMRPromo.mp3 .
Here are their guidelines adapted for my purposes.
PODCAST PROMO
Please attach a promo of no more than 120 seconds in the following
format: MP3, 44.1KHz, 128-bit (stereo or mono)
Once ready, please email your submission to (catholicroundup@gmail.com) catholicroundup (at) gmail (dot) com
with the subject “PROMO: Your Show Name”.
AUDIO PROFILE
The Canadian Podcast Buffet also does something called an Audio Profile which I have adapted here.
Please attach an audio profile of no more than 120 seconds in the following format: MP3, 44.1KHz, 128-bit (stereo or mono)
When you start your audio response to these questions, please follow this format..
Hi! My name is ……. I produce a Catholic podcast called ……… in ………. (city).
These questions are GUIDELINES, you don’t have to follow
this point-by-point, just tell us about you and your show!
# How often do you publish your show?
# When did you first start podcasting?
# Which Catholic podcasts do you listen to/recommend? Why?
# What single piece of advice do you have for podcast listeners?
# Which single piece of technical advice (tech tip) do you feel is
critical for podcasters?
# How do you feel that participating in new media deepens your faith?
# Who is your favorite saint?
# What is your favorite sacramental or devotion?
Once ready, please email your submission to (catholicroundup@gmail.com) catholicroundup (at) gmail (dot) com
with the subject “PROFILE: Your Show Name”.
Please email me with any questions you have setting up the website, podcast feed etc… I’m happy to help others use new media to share the Good News.
2) Deacon Tom and Mary-Jane Fox in the diocese of San Antonio Texas.
I’m a columnist for the online magazine Glorify God.
Paul Camarata from the Saintcast made a whirlwind trip to Toronto. We drove down to share conversation and donuts with him.
Congratulations to Bicycle Bob for 1 year of the Paul’s Men podcast.
On Pauls Men I heard about LiveWTL a podcast for Catholic Kids and teens hosted by Catholic Teen Avery.
Father Jim Tucker, a priest from the Archdiocese of Newark, NJ just posted episode 1 of the Catholic Creativity Podcast
Baby Report: Kyla and Patrick, friends from Cana Colony welcomed baby Hannah Marie on September 19
Father Roderick is an uncle. His sister gave birth to her 3rd child, a baby boy, Ezra today.
Prayers needed: Pray for Righteous B, Bob Lesnefsky who suffered a stroke on September 16. Find out more at prayfortheb.com
Tina, a grad student, is known on the net as snupnjake. Her basset hound Jake needs surgery to remove a large mass from his ear. Find out more at Jake’s Takes: Basset Thoughts. You can also find her checking out parishes at Snup’s View From the Back Pew
Social Media Reflections:
Contacting podcasters who disappear, a 4 marks friend request leading to reconnecting with a college friend, guest on a podcast, Meeting with Paul Camarata
Song by Peter and Cyndie Mason known as Song of the Lamb: Speak Oh Lord.
Vote for Catholic Podcasts. Please take some time to vote for Catholic Podcasts on Podcast Alley and submit some reviews on Itunes. It really helps out.
Send your feedback, podcast, blog and website promos ideas etc… on the blog at http://catholicroundup.com by email at (catholicroundup@gmail.com) catholicroundup (at) gmail (dot) com or by calling 206-337-0611.
Forgot to mention on the show: The Fresh Air Fund which provides summer camp and vacation opportunities to disadvantaged NYC children is looking for Host Families in the Eastern Seaboard of the US and Ontario in Canada.
Vote for Catholic Podcasts. Please take some time to vote for Catholic Podcasts on Podcast Alley and submit some reviews on Itunes. It really helps out.
Send your feedback, podcast, blog and website promos ideas etc… on the blog at http://catholicroundup.com by email at (catholicroundup@gmail.com) catholicroundup (at) gmail (dot) com or by calling 206-337-0611.
It would be wonderful if members of the online Catholic community could arrange their summer vacations in 2010 to spend a week at a Holy Family Fest at Familyland. We will try to help coordinate this.
Baby Report: Welcome to Ada Clare Kedinger – Born to Daniel and Anna Kedinger this week. Daniel is a host on the Catholic Underground podcast. Apologies to Mattie Claire Sweeney for getting her name wrong on the last podcast.
Vote for Catholic Podcasts. Please take some time to vote for Catholic Podcasts on Podcast Alley and submit some reviews on Itunes.
Send your feedback, podcast, blog and website promos ideas etc… on the blog at http://catholicroundup.com by email at (catholicroundup@gmail.com) catholicroundup (at) gmail (dot) com or by calling 206-337-0611.
Father Seraphim Beshoner has produced his 200th episode of the Catholic Under the Hood podcast.
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Today, Father Roderick and the SQPN network closed their annual fund raising drive with a 12 hour podcast marathon. I thought I would surprise Father Roderick with something special. The Catholic New Media Celebration will be held this year in San Antonio, Texas on June 27. I’m still unable to go but it will be an amazing event. To help promote the CNMC, I wrote and recorded a parody called, ‘People are going to San Antone’ with the help of Adam Hendey on flute (recorded by his mother Lisa Hendey the Catholic Mom), and Dan Harms of Popple on Lead Guitar.
Apologies for the sound quality in this episode. I am still getting used to our new mixer and there was a bit of amplifier hum in one of the mic channels. I’ll work on it for next time.
Join us for our Online Lenten Day of Reflection on March 28.
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Antonia from the wonderful Catholic Linux monkey blog is a programmer and mobile application developer in her day job. For Lent, she made a Mobile Catholic Prayerbook, that contains the common prayers – from the very basic Our Father to various after mass thanksgiving prayers and other Catholic devotionals. It currently runs on Java-enabled phones. She has an iPhone version coming soon!
I’m trying to check it out on my palm TX. I’ll let you know if I get it up and running.
UPDATE:
Antonia Rocks! When I mentioned that I was trying to get the mobile Catholic Praybook working on my palm TX to take a look, she compiled it specially for me. Remember folks that the Palm TX is a discontinued platform that no longer officially supports Java apps, but it runs GREAT. It is basically a quick index of many Catholic Prayers on your java enabled mobile phone or device. Antonia is offering it for free during Lent. If you have a Java enabled cell phone, check it out.
I have screenshots of it running on my palm TX below.
SQPN has started their giving campaign by giving their community new SQPN Forums
Plurk has a vibrant Catholic community– I challenge Father Ryan, Josh and Father Chris from the Catholic Underground Podcast to try it again for a solid week.
Interview with Susan Bailey, The Princess of all Media: Sung Rosary Project:
My daughter and I prayed the rosary together at eucharistic adoration using vrosary– a rosary program for Palm handhelds and phones.
Woohoo: A blog Promo– and it was easy to find too– Brian posted it to the sidebar of the blog– a very good idea for bloggers and podcasters.
If you’re a Catholic Blogger who would like to have an audio promo for your blog I’m willing to act as a matchmaker between Catholic bloggers and podcasters who would be willing do do a short audio promo for blogs. Or if you are a Catholic blogger with audio equipment, you could do one yourself and send it to me– <cough> CurtJester </cough>
Catholic Underground: Episode 88– They released one in between the time I recorded and released this podcast.
Catholic Blog Carnival: Is on week 197 and fast approaching their 200th blog carnival. I encourage all Catholic bloggers and podcasters to make an effort to submit to the 200th blog carnival and get to know some of the amazing Catholic bloggers who regularly submit to the Catholic Carnival. Living Catholicism: What is the Catholic Carnival?
Thomas Peters, from the American Papist has reached his 4000th post on the American Papist blog. Wow! He is branching out into video and he has just launched a weekly newscast of Church News on youtube. His first episode features, headlines from church news, satirical commentary in style of Colbert Report and an interview with Archbishop Chaput of Denver. The American Papist team have put together a highly informative and entertaining show centered around news of the Catholic Church. You can find it at Americanpapist.com . His blog is at Americanpapist.com/blog.
Vote for Thomas Peter’s blogging scholarship
Thomas Peters is in the running to win a $10000 student blogging scholarship. You can help him by voting for him (“Thomas Peters”) in the 2008 student blogging contest.
Podcast Awards: Voting is now closed. The lower 20 Category Winners will be announced on Sunday Nov 9th at 4pm Pacific at podcastawards.com.
CNMR Big Question this week: Do you use tech (ipod, book, ebooks) to assist in meditation at adoration? How and why?
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CNMR Question of the Week:Does your parish do a good job serving young families and especially children? How? Talk about atrium– Catechesis of the Good Shepherd.
Interview with Mike Koelzer, the owner of Kay Pharmacy in Grand Rapids, Michigan www.prolifepharmacy.com.
Bryan Murdaugh’s Glory (Psalm 29) contest to win a concert by Bryan in your home. and Ustream concert on Sept 15. For more information, go to bryanmurdaugh.com.
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Celebrations Jeff Miller, The Curt Jester celebrated his 6 year Blogging anniversary and 100 books so far this year. Paul Camarata’s 100th Saintcast.
This weeks Carnival was hosted by Joe Wetterling at Ho Kai Paulos :
The theme of this week’s blog carnival -is “I love being Catholic!” It featured contributions from 13 Catholic Bloggers. The carnival starts with a theme song “I like being a Catholic” which is an embedded video from a Catholic Video Sharing Site: called lovetobecatholic.com)
What is there to love about being Catholic? We have Love. Not cuddly, comfortable wuv, but real love – what C.S. Lewis once wrote “could easily be mistaken for ferocity”. Real, intense love leads us to the true meaning of worship. We have a mission. “We are called to love. Called to give. Called to hope.” In fact we have The Mission, set for us by Christ, to make disciples of all the nations. And from there, it needs to spread out at every moment. Being a part of the Body of Christ is not a part-time job. We are called to be All Christian, All the Time We have help on that mission! We have a loving Mother. Christ suffered for us, and Mary suffers with us. How can a mother not feel the pain of her children? And not reach out to help them when they need it? And we have a loving and just Father. God has every hair on our heads counted and keeps our best interests in mind, even when they aren’t how WE planned things. God loves us. We can count on that, even When Things Turn Out… Differently, And our God is just, even when the meaning of that is hard to grasp.
This week’s Catholic Carnival will be held at Organ-ic Chemist (http://musical-chemist.blogspot.com/). To enter is easy, just pick a post from your blog and email the information below to mariaefrancisco@gmail.com by 10:00 PM EST on Monday evening.
Click here for a reminder of what the Catholic Carnival is, courtesy of the Carnival Keeper, Jay at Living Catholicism. A handy-dandy submissions form may be found by clicking here. In addition, a list of past and future Carnivals may be obtained by clicking here.
Facebook users: Join the Catholic Carnival group and keep up there as well (it provides a way for members to socialize and interact). Just search for “Catholic Carnival” in the groups tab on Facebook.
Also consider hosting a Carnival one week – it’s fun and rewarding without too much work. The Carnival is better when it travels around from one Catholic blog to another. For more information, just email me at jay@livingcatholicism.com.
Highlighting other blogs. Catholic Ipod Another great resource for finding great Catholic audio.
Should I set up a directory of Catholic resources. What form should it take?
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I’m going to tag links on the show on delicious.com using the tag catholicroundup and the date of the show ie) July15 so people can find the links we mention.
Thanks for listening to the Catholic New Media Roundup.
About the same time I discovered Catholic Podcasts, I started seeking out Catholic blogs. In 2004 or 2005, while cruising through St. Blog’s Parish blog directory, I encountered Catholic+Linux+Monkey. The name was just too irresistible. As a Catholic who monkeys around with linux, I had to check it out. Catholic+Linux+Monkey is the personal blog of Antonia, an IT specialist and Catholic who lives in Singapore.
Over the past several years I keep coming back to it because Antonia recounts her struggles to grow in faith while living in the modern world. The fact that she lives on the opposite side of the world to me also helps me to understand about the Universal Church. I particularly enjoyed her posts leading up to and following World Youth Day in Cologne. I hope she is going to WYD in Australia so I can again enjoy viewing that incredible event through her eyes.
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