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flockNote Beta
“flockNote is an innovative, Catholic website that helps you share ‘notes’ with the flock!” (click the above image to watch the 30 second video)
I’ve been playing around with flockNote these past couple of days and I must say that I like it. Much like Twitter and some of the other micro-blogging websites, you can subscribe to feeds either by e-mail, text message, or just on the website itself. The Beta version of flockNote has some new features that these other sites do not have. For instance, each member can create multiple group feeds apposed to having to create separate user accounts. And you are not limited to 140 characters. Another great feature is that you can link an existing rss feed to a created flockNote feed. This is great for blogger feeds, because it actually creates a “note” with the Title of your blogpost. You can generate code for a specific group feed to easily add a subscription button to your blog or website. Below is a subscription button to the “Catholic Tech Tips” flockNote group.
How flockNote works: Simply sign up, create or join a group “feed,” select how you would like to be notified of new “notes” posted by each group. Below, is a screenshot of the flockNote interface.
The flockNote team is currently working on a Facebook App. If you have any suggestions or would like to receive “notes” from the development team Click Here.
03 Nov 2008 Catholic Tech Tips
Great tool for Catholic churches to keep parishioners updated on the happenings in the parish. Start a local flockNote prayer group or enhance an existing prayer group using flockNote. Subscribe to your local diocese’s feed (for when they get around to seeing the potential of flockNote).
Flocknote is awesome! The power of the website is that it aligns perfectly with the structure of the Catholic Church - so bishops can easily send notes to every single person in their diocese, pastors can communicate to everyone in their parish, and so on!
Still playing with it, but it seems a bit buggy to me - the tool for creating a widget for my site did not work for me. I think the potential is great, but am contemplating how I could ever get my pastor interested in it… I think that as parish webmaster, I may try to test it on our parish site. Will also mention it in my podcast this week. Thanks for the heads up!
Lisa
FlockNote is still in the early stages of beta so some of the features may be either disabled or a bit buggy at this time. If you come across any of these bugs, go ahead and contact flockNote so they can fix the problem.
Also, if you have any suggestions on how to improve flockNote, now would be a good time to let them know your ideas.
God bless,
Joshua
That is pretty sweet. I can see this being used by my priests. Most of them are on Facebook and Twitter so it shouldn’t be much of a change. Seems pretty good so far even though it’s just starting out.
Great stuff!
We’ve added a “My Replies” tab. Would love to know what people think. It gives the user a better idea of what the latest conversation has been in the feeds they are subscribed to.
Also, will be working on personal messages soon. We’ve had a number of users ask for this.
Please continue giving all the great feedback so we can continue to improve the site! God bless!
We’ve just improved the textarea input when replying to a note. It allows the box to expand as you type if you are typing a longer reply.
Also, it puts a 500 character limit on a reply to encourage users to be concise in their responses.
Please play with it and let us know what you think or if you find anything wrong with it. Thanks!