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Proposal Deadline: October 3, 2013

__Project Title__: St. Gregory Faith Formation Blog

__Project Description__: The St. Gregory Faith Formation blog will provide online access to the following: the program schedule, handbook, an online registration, sacramental schedules, the Loyola e-newsletters for families, Loyola religion text extended lessons for parents,as well as games and lesson reviews for children, resource links for parents and youth, the diocesan child protection policy, and a youth ministry page.

__Project Goals__: The goal of this project is to provide online access to the Faith Formation program in this digital age. Our parish website is not user friendly and can only be updated by the webmaster in language that is technical and unfamiliar. A part of the goal also includes a digital place for the youth of our parish to find out what is happening in our parish and in the Diocese. Also, during last year's parish audit it was suggested that the Diocesan Child Protection policy be posted on our webpage, so now it is there.

__Audience Description__: The audience intended first is for Faith Formation parents and teens; and second for parishioners and everyone as an information tool for evangelization online.

__Projected Timeline__: Two months to set up the initial blog, one month of use and feedback from the primary audience, and then ongoing development and use.

__Technology to be Utilized__: Some of the technology used was Blogger, parish digital photos, links to related sites, Google Drive and Google Forms.

__Project Budget__: No dollars for set-up, except the price of the DDBC course; however, the project did take an extensive amount of time and energy to learn, implement, and continually evaluate and update the webpage.

No, departmental approval was needed.

__ Note __ : Projects should be carried out in a two-month period following the Proposal deadline. All projects should be completed by November 14, 2013.

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