drum roll….. the Vatican’s goes Social Media

Posted by Natasha D'Souza on Jan 23, 2009 in Blog, new media strategy | 1 comment

Yup you read correctly, the Vatican is going social media.  Wow, that’s amazing.  One of the oldest institutions that is very much into traditions is now embracing this method of communicating.

They do have a website….

and they have launched their own YouTube channel.

You will now be able to get daily updates from the Vatican.  Rumour has it that they might go facebook as per the Vatican’s Social Communication’s Chief.

“I’m thinking about it. We have opened a discussion about it but we haven’t decided anything yet.” said MsgrClaudio Maria Celli, President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communication.

There are more people from that Vatican on Facebook like  Cardinale Crescenzio Sepe.

The nun who launched the Vatican’s Web site is at work on a MySpace for Catholics

Back in 2006, Sister Judith and her team were responsible for the re-design of the Vatican website and starting a MySpace page.

It’s apparent that the Vatican has been on the social media journey for a while now as they approved the iphone app by called iBreviary. The application, which is a virtual version of the Catholic liturgical book, was created by an Italian priest, Reverend Paolo Padrini, and is available in Italian, English, Latin, Spanish and French, with German and Portuguese coming in the next version.

Jesus in also on facebook as well but not sure which person or group set this up.

There is a Jesus Facebook application.

iphone…

It’s just the begining …..