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  1. When Should You Re-Share Content?

    You may have heard the old saying: if you’re not paying FOR the product, you ARE the product. This is 100% true on social media. There are hundreds of incredible Catholic publishers, personalities, and ministries giving away free graphics, videos, a...
  2. Auditing Your Parish Website

    The dream scenario for any parish is that when people type its name into Google, the parish website is the first result. The nightmare is the reverse – despite your best attempts, you can’t seem to get your church into the first page of search engin...
  3. Bug Detection with Jam

    From time to time, you may find what you believe to be a bug in Catholic Social Media. One of the easiest ways for our team to assess your potential bug is for you to record the issue using a free, safe tool that we use ourselves called Jam. This to...
  4. Understanding the Accounts Screen

    The "manage accounts" screen is broken up into three sections. Here's how to understand them: Summary Card This section gives you key information at a glance, such as your diocese's account owner, the status of your Diocesan Essentials subscripti...
  5. How to Use the Analytics Section

    You can see how your social media profiles and content is performing in the Analytics section. Toggle by month, year, social media grouping, and platform to easily get a pulse on your community. To see how each individual piece of content i...
  6. When Posts Go Viral

    To highlight the power of a post "going viral," we like to introduce you to Patrick Sharkey. When he first checked out a free trial of Catholic Social Media, Patrick was the pastoral assistant for administration at St. Nicholas Catholic Church...
  7.  How to Link Directly to a Category in Resources

    You can create direct, unique links for all of your categories and subcategories in order to send parishes, schools, and other organizations directly to the items you need them to access. To copy the unique link for a given category: 1. Go to th...
  8.  How to Add a Cover Image to a Category in Resources

    Cover images (or thumbnails) are an easy way to show a preview of what's inside a category in the Resources section. It also makes your Resources section more visibly appealing and easier to navigate. Here's how cover images works: First, the to...
  9. Using the Bookmarks Bar

    You likely have at least a handful of websites you visit every day. You may have them bookmarked or you may simply rely on your web browser’s history to fill in the address as you start typing. But are you using the very convenient and visuall...
  10. Archiving Parish Livestreams

    Since the coronavirus pandemic hit America in February 2020, almost every parish in the country has livestreamed or pre-recorded Masses. Several months into our “new normal,” the question is coming up more and more: how long should we keep these Mas...