Feel free to shamelessly copy: Catholic tech handout

A few months ago, I gave a short talk before our parish's RCIA class about good resources for Catholics in social media, the web, and on smartphones and tablets.  It boiled down to a few different types of resources:

• Who to follow on social media sites and what communities to join
• What "read-only" resources to check out
• Recommended Catholic-specific apps and recommended "secular" apps that that can help in practicing one's religion (reading eBooks, note taking, pod catching, etc.)

It was a lot of fun to do.  One of my favorite small touches of it (not sure if anybody used it, but if one person did it was worth it) was to compress everything into a one page document that could also be accessed via a web browser.  That way, folks took something home with them from the meeting and could go somewhere where they could click links in order to access the resources of which I spoke.  Much cleaner than trying to put all those URL's on the page, and much more precise than asking folks to just google anything they were interested in.  I could see doing this for just about any talk given where there are recommended online resources to check out (which is just about any topic I think!).

I didn't even really need to make a web page for this.  I just wrote a Google doc and then used the "Publish to the Web" feature in the File menu to make the web page.  From there on out, any update I made to the doc replicated to the public web page within a few minutes.

Feel free to use this or adapt it to your own parish or diocese. Here's the read-only web version and here's the Google doc.