Getting #Married: Using Social Media to Celebrate the Sacred

by Meredith Gould

Getting # Using Social Media to Celebrate the Sacred explains why and how social media can be used to celebrate holy matrimony with dignity, reverence, and joy. This guide, based on the author's personal and professional experience, provides easy-to-understand information about using web-based resources

> build a community, both virtual and real, of loving support;
> plan the wedding liturgy;
> share the sacrament with those who cannot attend in real life;
> capture and save content and conversation up to and through the blessed event.

Getting #Marriedincludes FAQs, a special section for clergy and a Linkography.

Meredith Gould, Ph.D. is the author of seven books, including The Word Made Communicating Church and Faith Today(Morehouse) and The Catholic Celebrations and Traditions(Doubleday). In addition to writing about faith, Dr. Gould is a sociologist who provides marketing communications and social media counsel to the healthcare industry and mission-based organizations.

65 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 12, 2011

About the author

I'm a sociologist, culture critic, longtime spiritual seeker, and award-winning author of 11 published books with one always in the works. I write about what I've studied, experienced, and personally need to understand in more depth; sowing seeds for the next book in the fertile ground of the one I'm currently writing.

BIG GOALS: making complex concepts easier to understand; encouraging readers to think a bit differently about, oh, everything; and providing actionable tips to build community and enhance spiritual life--while getting readers to laugh-snort at least once while reading. Reader email always welcomed, as are positive (and kind) reviews.

Day job? Consultant since 1989, providing digital communications services as well as crisis communications counsel to local churches and judicatories across denominations. I also serve the healthcare industry.