Posts Tagged ‘IT’

How gaming can be used for social good

Thursday, September 6th, 2012

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Nick Kristof will join the 2012 Social Good Summit to discuss how gaming can be used for social good. Kristof is a passionate advocate of social issues and new technologies, and has recently launched a social game in partnership with Games for Change that can be played on Facebook to raise Read more

All about the Vatican’s widget

Monday, April 30th, 2012

The Vatican has just begun offering a widget, a software application, that will allow anyone with a website or blog to provide readers with automatically updated news and documents from the Vatican. When installed, the widget, with fixed dimensions, opens a small window with four tabs. Clicking on one provides the latest news from the Read more

Is Facebook killing Churches?

Friday, March 25th, 2011

Richard Beck recently set the religion blogosphere atwitter with a post entitled, “How Facebook Killed the Church.” Beck argues that rather than replacing face-to-face relationships with so many digital doppelgangers, “Facebook tends to reflect our social world,” extending and enriching established friendships rather than, by and large, inviting the development of new ones that take Read more