Catholic Grandparents and the Multimedia

The purpose of this posting is to describe to the members of the Nova Scotia Catholic Grandparents how we are using the multimedia (various internet platforms) to assist in meeting the objectives of the group.  Please read the first posting (letter to the Archdiocese re Catholic Grandparents) for a summary of the objectives of this group.

Blog Platform

First of all, our group will be using a blog for the purpose of sharing stories, a personal faith legacy, or communications such as this posting. This blog has been established using the Goggle platform.  The Google platform contains many features: e-mail under the prefix “gmail”, goggle interactive groups, and blogging to name a few.  The e-mail for the Nova Scotia Catholic Grandparents group is: rcatholicgrandparents@gmail.com.  Anyone wishing to make a posting to this blog can do so by sending it via attachment using this e-mail address.  The blogger administrator can then copy it into a blog posting.   

The blog itself has the name Nova Scotia Catholic Grandparents.  Once this name is googled, it will lead you to the blog postings; however, new blog postings and/or modification to existing ones cannot be done here.  This is a read-only public blog which anyone can see and read.

At the present time, only the blog administrators can make postings or modify existing ones within the blog.  This can be easily changed for members who wish to make their own postings simply by signing into the blog using above e-mail address and password which can be provided. 

Anyone can copy a blog posting to another internet platform like E-mail, Facebook or Twitter.  First go to the blog using the procedures described above.  All the blog postings are now available on one large scroll sheet.  Go to the posting you wish to copy and left click on the posting Title.  This posting now stands alone.  Go to the top left hand corner of your screen and find the link address for the posting.  It will start with “http”.  Right click (to highlight it) then left click “copy”.  The link for this posting is now in memory.  Go to Facebook or Twitter.  In the comment area, right click and then paste the link.  That posting is now available for your Facebook friends to read.  If you wish to send it to a single individual, it can be done by pasting it into an e-mail communication to that person on your contact list.

For those who would like to receive an e-mail notification of all the future entries to this blog, please enter your e-mail address in the "subscribe box" at the top right hand corner of the blog posting.  This is a means for you to keep in touch with all of the activity of this group, particularly if you do not use Facebook or Twitter. As mentioned above, if you wish to make a posting yourself, send your submission to the e-mail address shown above.

 

Facebook Platform (FB)

FB is the most commonly used internet platform.  Almost everyone is on it.  A FB group, under an administrator has been set up using the name: Nova Scotia Catholic Grandparents.  Right now, this is a closed group and only its members can see the postings.  Currently, any existing member can invite others from their FB community to join this group.   All postings from our blog will be displayed here using the copy/paste method described above.  This will probably be the primary area to share blog postings since it is the platform most commonly used.   Again, currently, only existing members can see them, but this can be changed to make them public.

Since all members of this FB group have access to these postings and their corresponding links, these can be copies and pasted into your own FB account for display to your FB friends or sent privately by way of FB messenger to another FB user.  This would be similar to an e-mail communication.

Twitter Platform

Twitter is the second most commonly used internet platform.  A group account has been set up in twitter under the name “CatholicGrandparents” with the hashtag “@CGrandparents”.  If you are a current twitter user, a search using either of these names will help you to find this group.  Current postings from the blog are also found here via tweets with the attached blog link.   Tweets can only be put on this group account by the administrator using the cut and paste features described above.  Anyone, however can read the tweets and activate the attached blog links, copy and paste the blog links into their own twitter account.  

If you are a twitter user, you can follow this group.  All of the group postings from “CatholicGrandparents” would then flow into the news-feed of your twitter account.  If you wish, you can favor them, or retweet them to your own followers or to a specific follower using their hashtag. Private communications are also available with other twitter users similar to an e-mail communication. 

I hope this is useful.  Be free to send an e-mail to rcatholicgrandparents@gmail.com if you have any questions.

Prepared by Len Moore