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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.
I wrote a new parody promo to ask other Catholic podcasters to send me their promos. I’m always happy to play them on the Catholic Roundup podcast. For the convenience of myself and other podcasters, I also keep a Promo Bank of Catholic podcast promos. Enjoy.
I would love to arrange an informal meetup group of Catholics using new media in Southern Ontario and Northern NY. Join me at Podcamp Toronto February 20, 21 if you can. It’s free to register.
Pope Benedict’s Messages for World Communications Day, January 24.
I would like to get a panel of Catholic bloggers, podcasters, clergy and laity together to discuss these two papal messages for the next Catholic Roundup Podcast. Contact me at catholicroundup (at) gmail (dot) com if you are interested.
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.
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.
Over at FallibleBlogma.com, Matthew Warner is just wrapping up a very successful Support a Catholic Speaker Month, where nearly 100 Catholic bloggers submitted profiles for 100 Catholic speakers.
I would like to declare November as: Support a Catholic Podcaster month. For most Catholic podcasters and bloggers, creating new media is a labour of love. We gain much satifaction from the comments and feedback of our listeners, and by the support of our listeners in helping grow our audience by recommending it to others. Voting for a podcast on podcastalley.com has proven to be a very effective means for helping a podcast reach a larger audience. Beginning November 1, I would like to encourage as many people as possible to vote for Catholic podcasts over at podcastalley.com. The way it works is that you can vote for as many podcasts as you would like, but you can only vote once monthly for each podcast. It is my hope that we can have all Catholic Podcasts in the top 20 in the religion and spirituality category and maybe can get a few in the overall top 10 on podcastalley.com. This simple effort has the potential to increase the profile of Catholic podcasts and expose them to a much larger audience. And if you are feeling generous, you can vote for the Catholic Roundup as well.
To vote for a podcast on Podcast Alley, you need to give them an email address. They will email you a confirmation link, which you have to click on to confirm your vote. If you don’t get the confirmation email, check your spam folder.
To make it easier to vote for podcasts on podcast alley, you can register for a free account on podcast alley. Once you are logged into podcast alley, you do not have to go through the email confirmation step when you vote.
For your voting convenience, here is a list of Podcast Alley Voting links for a number of Catholic Podcasts. Clicking on these links will take you directly to the Podcast alley voting page. If you know of a Catholic Podcast which is not on this list, send me a link to its podcast alley profile page or its podcast alley id# and I will add it to the list.
Happy voting.
Matthew Warner of Tweetcatholic and Flocknote has declared October as Support a Catholic Speaker Month. He is hoping to find 101 bloggers to each write about one of 101 Catholic speakers before October 20. Head on over to Fallibleblogma.com for more details and to see the list as it takes shape, or to sign up to write your own article about a Catholic Speaker. I quickly jumped into the fray and signed up to do a profile on Greg and Jennifer Willits.
In the summer of 2005, I bought an Mp3 player and started looking for music and podcasts to fill it. At that time I discovered Father Roderick and The Catholic Insider then the Rosary Army Podcast . My first reaction to discovering Catholic podcasts online was that it was a source for catholic culture online. I beganlistening to the weekly (then biweekly) episodes of the Rosary Army Podcast as Greg and Jennifer shared bits about their life raising a family, their day to day challenges with work, their apostolate to give away all twine knotted rosaries, and their Catholic faith. Their banter and stories were often hilarious, and their shows often contained funny little song parodies and sketches, including the now infamous, ‘Captain Catechism’.
After a while I introduced my wife and daughter to the Rosary Army Podcast, and we would listen to Greg and Jennifer’s newest podcasts together as soon as they became available. I began to get involved on the Rosary Army forums and learned to make and pray all twine knotted rosaries. Then I realized that podcasting is a 2-way conversation and started to send feedback first to the Rosary Army and then to my other favorite podcasts.
Over the course of the Rosary Army podcast, Greg and Jennifer have shared the good times and bad times of their life. They have shared their joys and sorrows: miscarriages, their frustrations at getting educational support for their children, unsuccessfully trying to sell their home to several episodes dedicated to Greg’s parent’s 50th anniversary. In an early Rosary Army podcast, Greg also told a hilarious story about getting lost in the Georgia backwoods on his way to a youth retreat to teach teens how to make all twine rosaries. The Rosary Army Podcast was ultimately about a couple deeply in love with each other, deeply committed to their family and uncompromising about their faith.
Through their example, Greg and Jennifer inspired a community of online Catholics. Several years ago Father Roderick Vonhogen invited them to join his SQPN podcast network. After about a year with SQPN , Greg and Jennifer went full time with their ministries at SQPN and the Rosary Army. They spent 2 years working full time with SQPN, managing the day to day affairs of both apostolates, producing That Catholic Show, and organizing the first Catholic New Media Celebration.
Last year, Greg and Jennifer were offered the opportunity to host a daily 3 hour show, The Catholics Next Door, on The Catholic Channel on Sirus XM radio. This offered them an incredible opportunity to reach a much larger audience as well as having more security to provide for their family. We were greatly saddened when they discontinued the Rosary Army podcast but about 6 months into their new show, they started releasing a weekly 30 minute podcast of highlights from their radio show, so you can still find them on the internet.
Back to Greg and Jennifer’s impact on me and my family. They showed Catholics that we can reach out and find community across great distances using the new media. They let us glimpse into their lives, into the challenges of having a family and running a world wide ministry from a small closet/office (dubbed the Cloffice) in their home. Most of all they challenged their listeners to deepen their own faith, to grow in holiness. I started listening to their podcast as a Catholic who was thirsting for more. Gradually I began contributing to their community with silly voice feedbacks, song parodies, and tying and giving away rosaries. I now find myself in my own spare room, producing a website and podcast and reaching out to others who are trying to answer Pope John Paul II’s call to a New Evangelization using the tools of new media.
I think that Greg and Jennifer’s special gift, which they express both on the radio and in person, is that they present themselves as an ordinary married couple with an ordinary family and ordinary struggles of their daily lives. They truly are The Catholics Next Door. However, by making themselves open to the call of the Holy Spirit and by diving deep into their faith, they are showing all of us that ordinary people can achieve extraordinary things for God. By virtue of our baptism, that is a call that we all share.
Don’t worry friends. We haven’t forgot about the podcast. We’ve been very busy with work and family commitments this month. However, we have a bit of podcast goodness for you. We have been experimenting with a 3 minute condensed version of the Catholic Roundup. Last week I sent it out to a bunch of podcast producers for their feedback and Jim O’Meira picked it up as a weekly feature on The Catholic Music Express Podcast. We are hoping that it helps fulfil our newly minted mission statement, “To support and encourage Catholics who are endeavoring to use new media tools to spread the Good News.” Other podcasters are very welcome to include the Catholic Roundup Digest in their own podcasts. And don’t forget about our Catholic Media Promo bank, a repository of promos for Catholic bloggers, podcasts, and musicians. We hope to make it easier for podcasters to find and play promos for other Catholic podcasts.
Last month I came upon the Why I am Catholic blog. I’ve quickly become a fan of Webster Bull’s masterful imagery and warm persona. He’s a great writer.
Last week on Tweetcatholic.com I found out about a new Catholic podcast with the best name:What would Jesus Podcast? Three young adults from Texas, Abbey, Brian and Kelly talk about our Catholic faith from a young adult’s perspective.
Matthew Warner is still looking for a few more bloggers to writer about their favorite Catholic Speaker for Support a Catholic Speaker Month. He is hoping to find 101 bloggers to each write about one of 101 Catholic speakers before October 20. Head on over to Fallibleblogma.com for more details and to see the list as it takes shape.
Last week we were inspired by Susan Bailey and the mission statement on the Grapevine Website to draft a mission statement for the Catholic Roundup.The process of praying about and writing a mission statement helped us greatly to define the focus of our online ministry. Now I have a bit of a challenge for other Catholic bloggers, podcasters and musicians: “What is your mission statement?”
Background music for this week’s Catholic Roundup Digest is an instrumental track of T-Fig and the party from Popple’s new album, Hip Hip Hooray, due to be released on October 20. You can find them at popple.us.
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.
In the podcasting world, the 100th episode is considered a milestone worthy of celebrating. It is a sign of persistence and dedication to learning a craft on the part of the podcasters. For listeners it represents the possiblilty to listen to a great deal of quality catholic programmingTo help commemorate podcasters reaching their 100th episode milestone, we have instituted the Catholic Podcasting 100 club at http://www.cc.ductapeguy.net/100club. To date, over 20 Catholic podcasts have reached the 100 episode milestone.
If you are a Catholic podcaster who has produced 100 shows, feel free to go over to cc dot ductapeguy dot net slash 100club where you will find a lovely Catholic 100 club badge to display on your website. I know, I know- you’re probably thinking, I produced 100 podcasts and all I got was this lousy web graphic. That’s about the size of it.
Congratulations to all the great people who have produced so many wonderful Catholic podcasts. And as always, If you are a Catholic blogger, or podcaster, send us a promo to play on the Catholic Roundup to catholicroundup (at) gmail (dot) com because we would like to help you to spread the Good News.
It is quite possible that I have missed a Catholic Podcast with more than 100 episodes in this initial listing. Please let me know of other Catholic podcasts which belong in the 100 club.
On August 18, Lucy Beatrice Shea was born. She is the Grandaughter of Catholic Author and Blogger, Mark Shea.
In other passages, Senator Teddy Kennedy passed away this week at the age of 77. In his old age he is said to have embraced his Catholic faith. We will pray for the repose of his soul.
Discussion with Chris about Catholic Familyland and Catholic Family Fest. Is there a way we can coordinate vacations among the online Catholic community to meet at familyland one week in the summer of 2010?
Sep 5: Kolbe Eucharistic Mini-Retreats. St. Brigid’s Church, 300 Wolverleigh Blvd., Toronto. Celebrating the Year of the Priest, Fr. James Duffy, from Madonna House will give a special talk on “My Life as a Priest”. There will be Eucharistic adoration throughout the afternoon. All are welcome to attend. For more information please contact 416-425-0189 or check www.kolbeapostolate.com.
September 9, 2009: Grace Before Meals Free Outdoor Premiere Party for Throwdown with Bobby Flay, 8-10 pm, Little Italy, Baltimore, MD
October 16, 17, 2009, Toronto Ontario: Theology of the Body Conference: Discovering The Master Plan for Your Life with guest speaker Christopher West Please click here for the details.
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The 12:00 noon mass will be celebrated by Father Alex Kirsten, S.J. Director of the Martyrs’ Shrine. The presider and homilist at the Living Rosary will be the Very Reverend Archbishop Thomas Collins, of the Archdiocese of Toronto.Procession of the Blessed Sacrament and Rosary – 2:00 p.m. at the Papal Altar
On this episode of the Catholic Roundup, we continue to discuss our vacation/pilgrimage to Catholic Familyland and share a bunch of great interviews. Enjoy.
AudioBoo– Father Roderick has a high opinion. Simple podcasting website from an iphone or ipod touch.
Deacon Tom Feedback about CNMC song. Deacon Moments song. Just For A Moment song by Sean McGaughey.
Catholic Roundup Big Question: Have you ever been on a pilgrimage? Do you take time during your vacation to recharge and enrich your spiritual life? Tell us about it. Send your responses to (catholicroundup@gmail.com) catholicroundup (at) gmail (dot) com or call 206-337-0611.
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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.
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Father Seraphim Beshoner has produced his 200th episode of the Catholic Under the Hood podcast.
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We REALLY wanted to be at the Catholic New Media Celebration in San Antonio this weekend but it was just not possible for us to go this year. Instead We participated by watching the ustream, and participating on plurk and twitter. I interviewed a number of people both at the CNMC and those who could not make it. More detailed show notes will follow later.
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Song: People are Going to San Antone: Video on Youtube
I wrote this parody to help promote the Catholic New Media Celebration on June 27, 2009 in San Antonio, Texas ( http://celebration.sqpn.com ). Adam Hendey helped out on flute recorded by his mom, Lisa Hendey ( http://new.catholicmom.com ). Dan Harms from Popple provide a tasty guitar solo. ( http://popple.us ). My always supportive wife and daughter make cameo appearances in the video.
Cannonball Awards: at the Crescat during the 2009 Cannonball Awards, as races are close in several categories. And the Catholic New Media Awards are accepting nominations as well. There’s even a third competition underway, one specifically for Eastern Christian Rite blogs.
“Mary Moments” are back and will honor motherhood — and all parenthood — on Monday, May 25 at Just Another Day of Catholic Pondering. The carnival will include a Mr. Linky or you’ll be welcome to share in the comments if you don’t have a blog or a website.
7. Chris Cash’s initiative to 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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