 More Ways to Organize and Grow Your Catholic Social Networks
Introduction
To manage well the expansion and growth of our Catholic social networks,
this article suggests ways by which we can organize them, through a weekly
schedule of social networking activities. The growth of social networks
can be in tandem with a system of managing and controlling them. The key
is discipline, keeping to a schedule of social networking activities, and
learning to fulfill what is required efficiently and productively.
Organizing with a planned schedule
Social networks can be categorized according to their functions: web mail,
web work sites, online organizers and ToDo sites, storage and file sharing
sites (photo, bookmark, video and other files), collaboration and
community sites, and peoplefinders. Many of us are commonly engaged in
one or more of the categories given above. The key to manage all that is
mentioned above, is to schedule a category to work on, for a specific day.
For example, we can schedule our community sites (MySpace, Facebook,
Friendster, LinkedIn, etc.) on Thursdays. And then we can schedule our
storage and file sharing sites (Drop.io, SkyDrive, Delicious.com, Digg) on
Fridays. Whatever day we designate for each specific category of social
networking activity, we could achieve greater productivity if we also
anticipate what can be done already before its scheduled day.
Organizing our web mail
It is not uncommon for many of us to have two or more email accounts.
So, instead of going from one account to the other, to check on alerts
from many social networks, we can avail of GMX.com web mail. GMX.com gathers
and collects all email accounts into one. GMX.com does this for all
Hotmail, Yahoo!, Gmail, and other emails accounts that provide information
on their POP and SMTP servers. GMX.com is a free web mail organizer. If you
decide to register for a GMX.com account, you can collect and gather all
your other email accounts and GMX.com, will place each account in a
specific folder of its own. This way, you can save time and energy in
getting all the alerts you need for many Catholic social networks.
Twitter.com
As a microblogging site, Twitter.com can help deliver your updates to a
specific section of your Catholic social network. If you already registered
with GMX.com web mail, then you can easily find out if there are any alerts
from Twitter.com - alerts coming from friends and people who want to follow
your updates. So that you will not be overwhelmed with many followers, it
is best to keep your Twitter.com account private rather than public. This
way, you can serve better a moderate amount of followers, who want to have
specific updates from all the information you have gathered in your social
networks. You can then customize very well your updates, as a private
account will often target a specific market, which have needs that arise
from similar, and common educational, and economic backgrounds.
Zoho.com
Listed as the 17th most innovative product of 2008 by www.PCWorld.com,
Zoho.com is filled with many features compared to other online tools.
It is also an overall organizer for everything! You can put everything
(all kinds of content, software, applications, files) together on a
specific subject, and then share this work with your social networks.
It is a great way to organize and grow your networking ventures.
Submitting your sites to Catholic directories
One strategy from web 1.0 technology, is to build visitor traffic by submitting
your Catholic sites to online Catholic directories, or to directories which
have a "Catholic" category. This is one basic strategy that is still relevant
to basic and small Catholic web site development and to growing a Catholic social
network. Since many of these online directories have their pages indexed in the
search engines, then those who search online can have access to our site, blog,
and social network though these directories. The visitor traffic which these
online directories can give will help grow our following at Twitter.com,
and in all our other social networks. It can also give enough visitor traffic
to enable us to promote the Catholic faith through our Catholic site, blog
and social network.
Examples of such directories are the following:
- St. Blog's Parish
- OpenID, openid.net
- Classifieds1000, classifieds1000.com
- DMOZ, dmoz.org/help/submit.html
Mobile web development
Since 2006, the trend of the Web seems to be more and more directed to
mobile web development. With the production of mobile phones that can
access virtually anything from the Web, we can gradually be introduced
to this new trend. One magazine that can assist in knowing more about
mobile web development is www.PocketPCmag.com. The tools and applications
which are available (many of which are free), can help grow our
social networks from a mobile phone. For example, if you go to
www.getjar.com, you can use their search field, and find a Facebook
application for your specific brand of mobile phone. With this application
taking only 4.9 KB space in your mobile phone, you can already keep tabs
of everyone in your Facebook social network.
Bonus tip for growing Catholic social networks
Not all people you know are in Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, or LinkedIn. Some of
them are not yet into social networking. But you can get in touch with them through
a peoplefinder application such as www.spock.com. When you search for an email
address of someone you know in this site, then you can invite them to one of
your social networks - whether in Facebook or the many other social networks
that are progressing well at this time. So bookmark this peoplefinder site as
one of your favorites: www.spock.com.
Summary and conclusion
Social networks have no other direction in which to go but to expand and grow.
Managing these social networks will be easier if we find the right web sites,
applications, and tools to operate them with ease and efficiency. If you follow
some of the suggestions given above, it can greatly provide both organization and
continued growth, not only for our small Catholic web site development and
networking, but also to others who may want to know of these growth and
organization strategies.
Related resources
Dennis Emmanuel Cabrera
Web Developer Methods for Catholics
www.c-web-developer.net
My Main Catholic Blog
www.c-internet-mission.net
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