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the cnmc blues — the post conference reflection

IMG_5284I laugh a little at the idea that you can go to a conference, have a blast, and then have a week-long depressive state because you miss everybody — in many cases people you’ve met for the first time.

I’ve written about this before here, here, here, here, and here, and I think I finally put my finger on it. The struggle is real, folks.

The Catholic New Media Celebration Conference Celebration, an annual gathering of consumers and producers of digital Catholic content hosted by Star Quest Production Network (SQPN!), celebrates the people behind the content. I think it’s SQPN’s greatest gift: community building. Because like the Magi, we are following a star and we are blessed to be together on that journey, sometimes leading each other, sometimes following, often extending or reaching for a hand.

Let’s be clear, content is king as Captain Jeff so cleverly explained in his presentation on podcasting, and The Content really is The King, Jesus Christ, since our whole raison d’etre as content providers is Evangelization. 

But the people…the people who produce this content. That also drives me…enriches me…fills me with the warm fuzzies that bring me back year after year. I want to see and laugh with and hug the people who are my daily dose of online interaction. You see, even those people who don’t think they are content providers because they don’t have podcasts or blogs — they provide content all the time in their engagement in all the comboxes, twitterfeeds, facebook statuses, instagrams, periscope videos, and yes, even snapchats. It’s good to get together and be present in a room. To laugh. Sometimes to shed a little tear. But always to celebrate these relationships — the flesh and blood reminder that we are real people behind the static profile pictures.

I want to know what their laughter sounds like — so it rings in my heart when I see LOL.

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Other reflections from #CNMC15 in Atlanta, Georgia June 7, 2015

Sarah Perkins,  Most Usually Unusual: #CNMC

Lyn Francisco, the Organ-ic Chemist: My CNMC Experience

Patrick Padley at PatrickPadley.com: Finding Peace When Making Difficult Decisions and CNMC Wrap-Up

Catholic Weekend live from CNMC: CW275: CNMC 2015 Conversation with Fr. Dave Dwyer

Greg and Jennifer Willits, The Catholics Next Door TNCD #090: Secret Origins

Steve Nelson at Everything Esteban: Rejuvenation at CNMC15

Tiffany at Life of a Catholic Librarian: CNMC 2015 – Affirmation & Friendship. And apparently tears…

Lyn Francisco put together a Twitter Tagboard

Allison Gingras from Reconciled to You unpacks the CNMC at A Seeking Heart on Real Life Radio

Lisa Hendey at A Good Measure  #OPTIC Hackathon & #CNMC15 Inspire and Recharge Catholic Geeks

add your links in the comments and I’ll update

 

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Mischievous Mustache

This weekend promises to be a lot of fun. I plan to reconnect with friends I’ve made through the years as we’ve attended the Catholic New Media Conference (CNMC). Content providers and consumers will meet to share and network. And have fun.

Because always: SHENANIGANS.

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another train wreck at Catholic Weekend, and a review

Check out this week’s Catholic Weekend with the usual crew of friends, minus Steve, who was out galavanting at football homecomings. You’d think he was a bandgeek or something.

So many things to talk about in this week’s show, and one of them is for my nieces and nephews — a fun animated film that had me laughing, and I’m an old curmudgeon.

Most of today’s movie-going audience is primed for the blockbuster Pixar films, but there’s a place for simple story lines and cute animated characters. A good story engages children’s imaginations, and this movie, Under Wraps, will do it. That’s why it’s my Pick of the Week.

And just in time for Halloween, too, if you’re looking for something to stick with the scary theme, but not so scary that the little ones can’t watch.

wrapsUnder Wraps tells the story of a not-too-typical family of archeologists who happen to be struggling with some very typical family drama: a teen-aged daughter too connected to her cell phone to interact with the family, and an adventurous younger son who wants very much to fit in and prove that he can contribute to the family, but falters a little because of his clumsiness.

Add an unlikely villain, an accidental Mummy’s Curse — complete with hilarious Mummy King, and some zombie parents who keep losing body parts, and you’ve got about an hour’s worth of family entertainment.

Pass the popcorn.

Check out other family-friendly fare at Arc Entertainment.

MPAA RATING PG
DIRECTOR Gordon Crum
CAST Brooke Shields, Drake Bell, Matthew Lillard
STUDIO 2014 Arc Entertainment

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