The Catholic Blog Community

You should have received an email from me this week, informing you of the closing of this site and the opening of the brand new site.  You have until next week to reply to my email and get your new blog setup.  After that, I'm switching the lights off here and turning on the switch in the new digs.  

My beta testers have given me the green light to move forward.  I'm not done adding features, but the engine is running perfectly.  I look forward to seeing you all there!

We are in the middle of a major battle against sploggers (spam bloggers).  Currently there are about 100 or more of these garbage blogs created daily.  While we harden our security against them, we're going to have to shut down the open signups.  You can still register for a totally free blog, but you'll need to send an email request.  We'll turn them around fast.  Send your emails to (watch the spelled out stuff)  kingofcatholicmedia AT catholicdestination DOT com.  To separate you from the splog herd put the word SQUIRREL in your subject line. Thanks for your understanding.

- the king

Advent and Christmas are almost upon us.  People are getting "in the spirit" of the gift buying season long before Advent and Christmas arrive.  CatholicDestination.com has a way that your parish, ministry, or Catholic school can help your people find quality religious gifts while at the same time earning free money for your group. 

How?

When you join CatholicDestination.com as an affiliate, you can select from a number of banners and links to put on your web page, newsletter, or bulletin.  When people click on the link, any purchase they make will provide you with a "commission" based on the sales total.  It's actually quite simple.  The more people purchase through your link, the more free money you will receive.  CatholicDestination.com will write a check to the ministry you specify. 

Affiliate Program Signup

If you have questions, just ask the customer service team.  They'll help you with code or "how to" or anything else you need.  Don't miss this chance to take advantage of a great (and super easy) fundraising opportunity.

Your Catholic Blog Community developers are working overtime to develop and test the next generation of this Catholic Social Network.  We are working on finding efficient ways to connect the blogs together, beyond internal links you provide yourself (don't stop linking to each other, by the way), increase speed, and add new profile features to allow you to share more of your winning personality with your Catholic neighbors online.  

We're also scouring the internet to find new columnists for CatholicDestination.com.  Catholic writers who are interested in writing for a Catholic website should email the site admins at community@catholicdestination.com and provide a writing sample, as well as a brief biographical profile.  Interviews will begin shortly afterward, with the top candidates receiving premium promotion as columnists, including promotion of any products (books, CDs, etc.) the writer may have.

CatholicDestination.com is growing by leaps and bounds.  Your participation as Catholic bloggers is aiding in that growth.  Thank you for inviting  your friends to join us.  Our dream of connecting Catholics is coming true.  We would like to see the dream continue to expand, so please continue to invite others to join us in the world's only totally free Catholic social network.  Visit each other's blogs, comment, share ideas and pray for one another.  As always, if you need assistance, just ask the KOCM (kingofcatholicmedia@catholicdestination.com), our resident blog super.  He'll get you the help you need quickly.

Happy blogging, everyone!

The King is at it again.  This time, the KOCM is giving us an online Bible with built in search engine and chapter by chapter index for fast reference.  So far, the Old Testament Book of Genesis is finished.  He seems to have gotten the hang of it, so expect the other books to follow each week.  

http://www.catholicdestination.com/community/bible 

Don't forget to add CatholicDestination and the Catholic Blogging Community to your favorites list and bookmarks.  You really should be coming by here every day.  

Have you created your free blog yet?  Today would be a great time to begin.  Use the links to the right to start your very own free Catholic blog to write about anything that comes into that great Catholic mind of yours.  If you need help, the King of Catholic Media is more than willing to jump in and lend a helping hand.  You're not going to find another totally free and totally Catholic social network anywhere else.  We've looked.

All you faithful Catholic bloggers need to drop by the King of Catholic Media to sign up for his free search engine optimization course.  He's going to take the time to walk you through all you need to know to get your Catholic blog recognized by the major search engines and how to get your blog "out there" so more people can connect with you.  

New features have been added to the community blogs.  To name a few:

- a better text editor (this you have to turn on yourself, so ask me how)

- a front page login (look to your right)

- more themes to choose from

- more plugins to jazz up your Catholic blog (jazz hands!)

- a new blogroll page (under construction) with screenshots and descriptions for each blog in the community.

That last one (the blogroll page) was the King of Catholic Media's idea (as all good ideas are, I'm sure he would say).  Before I do any more editing though, I'm giving you the chance to tell me how you would like me to describe your blog.  Please send community@catholicdestination.com an email, describing in 2-4 sentences what your blog is all about.  If your blog doesn't mention your "real name" i'm going to use your username.  If you want more information up there, or want to suggest a change, you gotta email me.  I am no longer psychic.

By the way, King, you do have some good ideas.  

Hey, don't forget to invite your family and friends to create their own free Catholic blog.  I would love to see us have 100 active bloggers this summer.   

New plugin has been installed by the King of Catholic Media.  All of you Catholic bloggers can choose whether or not to implement this plugin or not.  The plugin is called "one search" and it allows the search function on your blog to search ALL blogs in the catholic blog community here at CatholicDestination.com.  Or you can leave your search alone (by doing nothing) and let users search your blog alone.  The Catholic Blog Community page (this one) has the feature installed. 

Thank you, King of Catholic Media.  You are a truly benevolent monarch. 

Andy @ Musings of a Catholic Convert has alerted me to GREAT news from fellow blogger, Shayne.  We have a brand spankin’ new Catholic to welcome home here.  Drop by Shayne's blog and welcome our brother home to the Catholic Church.

http://catholicdestination.com/community/shayne/

KOCM

Just like the KOCM told us, the site is going through changes.  We're finding new ways to network and to improve the site.  Thank you for your suggestions.  Keep them coming.  Welcome to all our new friends on this free Catholic social network.  We keep seeing more and more Catholic bloggers signing up and it's very exciting.  

Have you considered joining yet?  If not, why?  It's free!  We're almost ready to start moving forward with the new phase of development.  Help us grow the world's best online Catholic community and Catholic social network.  We want to meet you, and we want you to meet other Catholics.

Join up.  Then get the word out. 

We are working on making initial improvements to the blogging community and adding new features.  Thank you for alerting us to some of the little bugs you have found.  I love the fact that we’re all communicating together to make this community even more awesome!

Remember, any new features, widgets, plugins, templates, etc. that you see and want for this site, let us know.  This is YOUR community.  Well, it is OUR community, right?  Tell your friends, family, fellow bloggers, parish, ministry, priests, and deacons to join us.