FIRST SALESIAN WEBSITE AIMS FOR ONGOING FORMATION
NICHE MARKET
SUVA (Fiji): 16th May -- Bosconet, its tenth birthday well behind
it, was the first Salesian website to come into existence. It began
chiefly as a representation of the Australian province at the time, then
gradually took on the character of the region of 'Australasia' as it was then
called. But websites, including Salesian websites, are prolific these
days. I wondered if Bosconet could possibly respond to a particular set of
needs, especially within the English-speaking provinces. Perhaps you could
have a look now and see if it does begin to respond to your needs - you will
find an increasing range of files (often in PDF format for easy viewing and
printing across any platform) that have been in use for one or other formation
(Salesian) purpose. There are materials with appeal beyond the Salesian
world also - for instance some handy and colourfully prepared summaries of
Sandra Schneider's Finding The Treasure, with further summaries to come of her
next work, Selling All.
I would certainly appreciate some response to this
move in two ways: what other links and materials under the broad description of
'ongoing formation' would you find useful? And do you have any resources
lurking on your computer or better still on a local server, that Bosconet could
link to? In the end it's obviously better if we can offer the links rather
than try to dump everything onto a little server space somewhere on a Pacific
Island! But anything that can help promote the ongoing formation capacity
of our people is valuable, so let me know what you have and I'll try to work out
how best to incorporate it.
Of course, links keep changing! You will, I
am sure, discover outdated links already in Bosconet - if you know what the
adjusted link is, please let me know. This is the only way I can keep up
to date. If the Bosconet hyperlink above is not functioning, then click on
http://www.bosconet.aust.com
Happy and productive surfing!
Julian Fox sdb
p.s. Congratulations to Don Bosco Hall in Berkeley for getting their
website up and running. We look forward to much good material from that
source - and of course, Bosconet already carries that link!
