austraLasia #2258
Cast out into the deep - the ever-widening net of WYD
NATAL (Brazil): 20th September 2008 -- Perhaps it is not at all
strange that the ripples of WYD in Australia in July are still being
felt around the world, even if it's harder to tell exactly where the
ripples started once you get to the edge! But let's try to explain this
one.
During WYD, an exciting new collaborative effort
emerged called WYDCross media. As they described themselves: "We
decided to join forces and unite our goals to provide better
services to those who have the privilege of participating in World
Youth Day, and especially for those who will follow it from home".
After the July events in Sydney, this group had no desire to
disband. It includes the Triveneto Salesian Youth Movement,
Donboscoland. Accordingly, they joined forces with a group that calls
itself h2onews and created a new site called h2onews Crossmedia.
A bit of a mouthful all that, but there it is!
H2onews has its own story. It finds its origins in
the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, and more precisely,
marks its birthday as October 2006 at the First World Congress of
Catholic Television in Madrid. H2onews now provides a daily news
service of Catholic news, 'Your Good News Source', as it says, in eight
languages. It offers its multimedia services free of charge to Catholic
TV, websites and radio station so that the Pope's words and news about
the Church are available to everyone interested. Crossmedia and h2onews
are now joining forces. In terms of communications collaboration it is
an exciting project.
So where does Natal, Brazil come in? All part of the
ripples of the 'net'. A Brazilian Catholic who is in contact with
us here in Rome, found a work entitled 'Digital Virtues' on the web,
and has set about the task of translating it into Portuguese for wider
distribution - he is, however, translating it from the Spanish edition
due to be published in October. This aroused his interest in
Salesians and Salesian matters, so as he comes across material he sends
it over. He is also closely involved with h2onews in its Portuguese
edition (and with other Catholic communications enterprises in Brazil
of which there are a considerable number, some of them Salesian).
So you see.... good news rippling out and across the ether.
Ok but to really get to the point! Lo and
behold an excellent little video on Artemides Zatti in any one of 8
languages, English included. Our Brazilian friend thought we may be
interested - and of course we are! So, take a look at
http://www.h2onews.org/index.php?lang=en§ion= and view the
Zatti piece, then add crossmedia to the same URL immediately after
h2onews and explore that too. It will open up a whole new world
of possibilities!
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Title: australasia 2258
Subject and key words: SDB General: h2onewscrossmedia and Artemides
Zatti
Date (year): 2008
ID: 2000-2099|2258
