B. A QUICK VISIT TO THE VIDIMUS DOMINUM.ORG SITE

6.Reasons for choosing Internet:

Power of the medium: widely available access from all parts of the world; possibility of feedback, efficient mass media language...
Immediacy: all the more useful when time is short.
Low cost, particularly when compared to other media, even the most traditional, when you consider efficiency and extent of outreach.

7.New features of the Vidimusdominum site

There are two main innovations in our web page:

Two-way communication, i.e. information supplied to the users but with the facility for them to reply and participate (many web pages in Internet still use the "glossy paper" (or in this case "electronic"), expensive catalogue format - a shop window rather than an invitation to take part with an independent, personal response Many different kinds and levels of information (you will understand when I talk about information sectors).

8.Site communications architecture.

Information sectors

All about the Congress: information, available before the Congress, on everything which could, ahead of time, give a complete, overall understanding of the event (e.g. from who is the promoter, to how to get to the location of the Congress). Participant’s file: all the documents (reports, speeches, testimonies, closing messages...) Journal: a professional information service: News and opinions. An attempt to keep one’s finger on the pulse of events. And now... music: a kind of information very suitable for the young people we want to reach.

Participation sectors

Guest book: a chance to belong to the Congress through a message and to feel part of the event. Public Place for Dialog: an attempt to place religious life or open it up to public debate, freely, without fear or favor. Your Prayer on the Internet: a special way to take part in the Congress and communicate with religious and faithful all over the world regardless of distance or circumstance. Guided Tour of the vidimusdominum.org site Let’s get into Internet: Let’s go to our web page: Look at the screen and you will recognize the structures I have explained and the communication that has taken place.