Web Committee meeting 2-08-2015
Members present: John Mitchell, Jim Fritz, Becky Brown, Otto Pichowski, and Joseph Groves
The meeting was started with prayer, lead by John Mitchell. During prayer we read the reading from Mark where Jesus heals the leper.
We welcomed Becky and John gave her a little overview of the website and what we currently are working on.
We started discussion on the changes Jim suggested for the website.
- Discussion of events related to the school also being related to the parish. Basically any school events the parish is told about are open to the parish.
-Discussion on electronic giving being changed to a different wording. Possible "Parish Support". Decided we should consider some other titles and give the list to Walter to choose from.
-Discussion of the listing of ministries. We discussed if there are better titles we could come up for the Ministries section and the Activities Directory link. We didn't come up with any suggestions for changes during the discussion. Based on web hits to the Activities Directory, it looks like people are finding it and finding what they want.
-Tony is currently working on the podcast.
-Currently we have had only one comment, outside of the people John has asked to fill out the survey. Discussion was had on changing how we are displaying the link to the survey form. Some type of a comment box, an image.
Adding videos and slide shows to the webpage's homepage. John has started working on this by making a photo archives page. Jim made suggestion of letting people know to mail us pictures they have taken from events.
Becky mentioned a cell service called remind101, that is free to handle messaging, building contact lists, and edit them. Their website is remind.com
Jim had a suggestion to having a welcome video on the web page's homepage. Jim is going to ask Fr. Dan if he would be interested in doing that.
-We decided the bulletins link is fine for now.
-Discussed having a calendar on our website. We looked at the one currently in progress on the school's website. We discussed a struggle we have, is that Kelly is the one who knows of the events coming. Joseph offered to look and see if the Calendar widget was available on eCatholic for our website.
-Discussion on using blogs. Our Facebook currently can be a source for this. We also have a link to Otto's blog.
Next meeting currently set for: March 8th at 7:00 pm in room C/D at Mary Queen.
John closed the meeting in prayer.
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