The Catholic webauthor
starter program
Starter program in ten brief and simple ways
10 brief ways of the Catholic webauthor starter program
How to go about the Starter Program
This starter program can be taken in a pace suitable to your time framework.
Learning the starter program depends on how much time and resources you will
put into the study. A basic suggestion though in beginning this starter program is to be
immersed in
The Spirit's Love Leaders Corps list. This is the list that became
the base, the root, and source for starting this Catholic Internet Mission site.
From here, you will know whether you feel called to initiate some mission work in the
Internet. It will help you find the ways to go about the starter program.
Given
below are short descriptions of the steps and the ways of the Catholic webauthor
starter program.
Immersion in the lists of the WebNetwork
Immersion in the lists of the WebNetwork will help you begin in your
journey to become a Catholic webauthor. There are two ways to know the
lists. They are given in
Holy Spirit Ministries and in
Lists and Groups. Any list will do but being in the original list would
be better:
The Spirit's Love Leaders Corps.
Learning to build a website
This one you must need to do on your own and better to do it hands-on. You
can buy books, CDs, or any printed material in addition to your hands-on self-study
in building a website but the best one is by joining free lists and forums
that help you in building one. The forum and list that helped me start in my
journey is the list RCWebAuthors.
Members of this list are Roman Catholics.
Learning to maintain a web log
What is important also is to learn to maintain a web log or web logs. There are
many web sites that offer free web log hosting. These are two which you can
use: Blogger and SEO Blog.
After you have learned to build your own website, you can also host your own
blog in your own domain by creating a subdomain for the blog.
Learning to start a webring
WebRings are one way of starting to be a Catholic webauthor. You can learn
about them through the website www.webring.com
By first joining one webring,
you will see how other website owners build their websites. And you will
also learn from them. You yourself can start to experiment with various
web design styles and formats. Then, you can start also a webring of your own.
Webrings help create traffic for your website.
Studying the Catholic Internet Mission program proper
This is the program proper and it needs time. When you have more time to
study and to read, you can go deeper into this as this will truly root you
in the integration of both the Catholic faith and the use of the Internet
media for the proclamation of the gospel and the propagation of the Catholic
faith tradition. The Catholic Internet Mission program proper is found at
Catholic Internet Mission: A Program of Excellence.
The articles in these webpages are heavy in theology and spirituality. As
in the program proper, this also entails more time and study. When you
want to have some theological background and some spirituality input into
your being a Catholic webauthor, you can study these articles.
Having a parish ministry
Though it is really not necessary to be a minister of communion, this is
one parish ministry that can be integrated into the Catholic webauthor
program. You need not be a minister of communion though. Even being
a reader or being part of any of the other organizations of the parish
is enough, as long as you are involved in some interpersonal ministry -
a ministry that involves direct relationships with people and caring for
them in some spiritual way.
Learning to be a leader through articles
Some articles on the site are about leadership. You can also use the
Google search function for this site. There is a blog that is about
Catholic leadership. Its title is
Catholic Leadership Today. You can
check on that to learn some reflections that are written in relation
to being a Catholic leader today.
Studying Catholic teaching on the use of the
Internet for evangelization
Studying the Church documents in relation to the use of the Internet for
evangelization is important. You can buy printed copies of these documents
from Catholic bookstores or you can purchase them online too. Even better,
you can copy them from the Vatican website at
www.vatican.va Just go to
the Vatican site and use also their search mode and you will find whatever
is current regarding the use of the Internet for evangelization.
Dennis-Emmanuel Cabrera
April 15, 2005
[revised, July 10, 2007]
If you wish to use information
and resources from this website,
kindly link it to:
Catholic Internet Mission:
Proclaiming the Gospel Online
Free Contents and Articles for
Republishing Online
http://www.pcentral-online.net
Catholic Internet Mission:
Proclaiming the Gospel Online
|
|