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 .

I got many ideas for the focus of The Catholic Roundup from The Canadian Podcast Buffet, a podcast which serves as a community hub for the Canadian podcasting community. They have some solid promo guidelines at http://www.canadianpodcastbuffet.ca/?page_id=8

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.

This episode was recorded on two road trips, over a span of 10 days.  Enjoy.

New Podcasts

Uncommon Sense, the podcast of the  American Chesterton Society.

Catholic Pilot podcast with Captain Jeff Neilson who is a well known SQPN stalwart.

Catholic Blog Directories

St. Blogs Parish Hall A directory of Catholic Blogs

(unrelated)  Stblogs.com Catholic Blogging Community.  Provides free space for Catholic bloggers

Catholic Blog Directory

Doesn’t that beat all.   There are two different online deacons named Tom Fox

1) Deacon Tom and Dee Fox from the Catholic Vitamins in Arizona.

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.

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2. Theme Song: Lost in Christ (©) Bryan Murdaugh

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ductape family at Our Lady of Combermere

Our Sunday Mass experience and Social Media Ministry

Neil MacCarthy   Archdiocese of Toronto Blog:  Has a 5 part blog series commenting on the new Encyclical, Caritas in Veritate.

Feedback from Deacon Tom and Dee.

Promo for Catholic Vitamins Podcast

Interview with Michael O’Rourke from Apostolate for Family Consecration (Familyland.org)

Promo For My Audio Journal from Mary in Minnesota

Celebrations Bumper–

Catholic 100 Podcast Club at Catholic Roundup

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.

LOLSaints Ipod Contest entries must be in by August 15.

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.

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Introduction by Katie from the Celebrating Saints Podcast

Overview of our Ductape family’s Great Lake Erie Circumnavigation

Canturbury Folk Festival, Ingersoll, Ontario

Catholic Familyland Holy Family Fest

1. Familyland.org

2. familycatechism.com

3. familyland.tv

4. Cardinal Arinze Podcast

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.

Interview with Michael James Mette

Song: Michael Mette : Know, Love, Serve from Luke 18- SSYM

Franciscan University is Awesome. We met Father Seraphim from the Catholic Under the Hood Podcast and the Orsborn Family from the Celebrating Saints Podcast.

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.

Interview with Sarah Reinhard from Just Another Day of Catholic Pondering

Vote for Catholic Podcasts. Please take some time to vote for Catholic Podcasts on Podcast Alley and submit some reviews on Itunes.

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Baby Report:  Welcome to the world to Marie Claire Sweeney born to Allyson and David Sweeney from the Catholic Family show.

New podcast,  The Catholic Laboratory Exploring the relationship between science and the Catholic church.

Song:  Let My Life Be Prayer by Ken Whiteley recorded at the Mariposa Folk Festival .

Post Catholic New Media Celebration interviews:

Deacon Tom and Dee Fox,   Katherine and Luke Sweeney from the Catholic Family show.

Jeff and Zina from the Secrets of Battlestar Galactica podcast.

Catholic Familyland and the Apostolate for Family Consecration

Celebrations:

Happy Birthday to Father Chris Decker from the Catholic Underground podcast and Joe McClane from the Catholic Hack.

Father Seraphim Beshoner has produced his 200th episode of the Catholic Under the Hood podcast.

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Enjoy.

And if you can make it to the Catholic New Media Celebration, head on over to celebration.sqpn.com for more information.

Intro Music

• New Intros, Extros and Promos
• Our new Promo
• Feedback discussion
• Clip from the Catholic Foodie
• Catholic Foodie Promo

Web Resources

• Father Rodericks List of Cool Catholics on Twitter: Cool Catholics on Twitter

Matthew Warner the developer of Flocknote, started up TweetCatholic.com. TweetCatholic has been going great guns for about 1o days. Follow me on twitter. I’m @Sean_McGaughey. Catholic Roundup feed on Flocknote

Catholic Roundup Day of Reflection on ustream and Talkshoe March 28

Watch here for more details as the day approaches.

We need contributors- help and prayers.  If you would like to join in on the preparations, please join the Catholic Roundup Group on Google Groups.

Play the Lenten Day of reflection Promo (music Hail Mary by Acid42 aka Lionel Valdellon).

Celebrations: Play Baby Bumper from Monster Cookies

• Babies

• Jude Barron 8 lbs 7 oz Born at home March 9

• Expecting: Lionel and Agnes Valdellon (Acid 42) Expectant Fatherhood is the Joy of Advent
• David and Allyson Sweeney from the Catholic Family Podcast
• Fostering: Rob and Kristen Williams: The Catholics Down Yonder

Our Daughter’s  First Communion  Prayers.

• Milestone Episodes

• Celebrations bumper
• Race to 100 clip.
  

• St. Anthony’s Podcast– Father Bill Holzinger-Episode 200

• Playing with Fire Podcast Episode 97

• Catholic Moments Podcast: Episode 94

• Catholic Spotlight with Chris Cash 93

• Catholic Underground Episode 99

Geek Stuff Father Bill Kendrick,  the Technopriest’s Geek bumper

Mobile Catholic Prayerbook for Java enabled cellphones

Catholic Applications for the Palm platform.

Join us for our Online Lenten Day of Reflection on March 28.

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It can be downloaded here: http://blvu.com/cpb

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.

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.

Freeware Palm: Virtual Rosary v4.1.0

On the blogs:

Promo For Christus Vincit: The Blog

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>

Paul’s Men Podcast

100th Show Report

• Two Edge Talk– Episode 90
• On the U: Episode 97–
• 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?

Music in this episode was by Susan Bailey, from the Sung Rosary Project:

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3. Let’s not forget about K7 Days. On the 7th, 17th and 27th of the month send some feedback to a blogger or podcaster.
   
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Bonus Content: Thomas Peters: AMP News from Youtube.

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Three Catholic Podcasts release their 100th episode!!

Catholic Family Podcast has reached episode 100. Congratulations David and Allyson.

Catholic in a Small Town Episode 99 and scheduled to record show 10 today.

The Grapevine News Minute stuck on episode 99

K7 Days: Check out my initial blog post about K7Day and K7 Day Facebook group.

Link Love:

Blogs that have linked to me:

• Organ-ic Chemist, linked here in this week’s blog Carnival.
• Neko’s Scratch Pad (Jasmine from Singapore)

Podcasts:

Christus Vincit

Two Edge Talk

Promos: Theotokos Podcast

Announcing the brand new: A Saint A Day Podcast by Terry Jones from saints.sqpn.com.

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.

Song by Mike Koelzer: So I Can Be With You

Elections in Canada and US:

Pro-life issues:

Catholic Answers.com – Voter’s Guide for Serious Catholics

Bishop Chaput’s new book: Render Unto Ceasar and American Bishops talking out to correct politition misrepresenting Catholic teachings.

Coverage in American Papist and Father Z’s What Does the Prayer Really Say.

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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Songs: Nick T Productions: Your Will be Done ,
Paul Camarata Saint Song

Justin Stroh: I like Being a Catholic

Shownotes: Ductape Family’s Excellent Boston Vacation

Zina and Jeff Liss: Catholic City with Zina and Secrets of Battlestar Galactica
Father Jay Finelli, the iPadre.

2 Shrines visited:

Kateri Tekakwitha Shrine in Fonda NY

The Shrine of St. Theresa, The Little Flower of Jesus: Nasonville RI. (Maintained by the Finellis).

Geeky Stuff: Plurk, 4marks, Identi.ca

I’m a Catholic Celebrity at 4marks, but the network has some hitches.

The Curt Jester’s: I plurk, therefore I am. Over 400 replies so far.

Celebrations
Jeff Miller, The Curt Jester celebrated his 6 year Blogging anniversary and 100 books so far this year.
Paul Camarata’s 100th Saintcast.

1. This weeks Carnival was hosted by Joe Wetterling at Ho Kai Paulos :
   

   1. 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)
   2. 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.
   3. 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.
   4. 1. 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.
      2. 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.
2. Highlighting other blogs. Catholic Ipod Another great resource for finding great Catholic audio.

Promos:

1) Divine Mercy Podcast: http://divinemercypodcast.com

2) Catholic Radio 2.0 http://www.blogtalkradio.com/CommanderCraig
- brand new to me- looking very good. Serious but high energy and funny.


Should I set up a directory of Catholic resources. What form should it take?

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2. 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.

3. Thanks for listening to the Catholic New Media Roundup.
   

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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.