So here I am in the nation’s capital, hanging out with Sr. L after a board meeting at the American Society for Engineering Education. Part of my reason for sticking around is to do some tutorial sessions for some of our sisters here on a networking web site (on the free wetpaint.com wiki site) that I set up in the hopes of enhancing our connections with each other and to facilitate our collaborations on our Chapter commitments. (No, we really aren’t as creepy as the nuns in that picture appear to be…)
Part of our charism as CSJs is to try to bring about union with God, among ourselves, among others. So as a “techie nun” I’m always looking for ways to put technology at the service of the charism. And with a little patience, I’m able to bring on board sisters who are a little unsure of themselves with respect to computers and hopefully give them a little confidence in using the tools I’m introducing to them.
We shall see how it works out…
On a side note…I read in a recent issue of Wired Magazine that blogs are so 2004….microblogging sites and social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook are the place for amateurs to make their mark in cyberspace…more later…
I don’t think they look creepy at all…play nice.
Right you are…I need to interpret everything in the most favorable sense!
On another note, a young woman I had a conversation with last week dubbed my networking efforts as “Nunbook” – cracked me up! I told her that most of my nuns wouldn’t get the joke…perhaps I’m wrong about that…
Hello Sisters…
Thanks for the stories and adventures…
My wife and I are products of the Catholic education system and have created our website to give thanks to all the great nuns who taught us back in the 1950s and 1960s … To me, that was the Great Generation of Americans (and a lot of Irish) who helped to make America what it is today…
Our web site is dedicated to the Nuns of old (and today’s nuns) and it even has a real nice epic poem giving thanks…
Hope you enjoy it and, once again, Thank You Sisters for all that you have done…
God Bless and Keep You All,
Steve & Linda Aloia