11:00 am | Easy Apps for Your Publication

Presenter: Cathy Dee
Time: Friday, June 23 at 11:00
Location: Room 4512

Easy Apps for Your Publication

APPS: Your smartphone is full of them. You used one to make your reservations to CMC ’17. You have to delete your old ones to install new ones. You want them free and you want them easy to use.

Apps are the way we interact our to-do lists, our news and information, our entertainment, even our family and friends. So it makes sense that your publication should have an app to reach out to your readership, right? But is it too expensive, too hard to plan and launch, too difficult to maintain?

This session will pose some questions to help you decide if an app is right for you. We’ll talk about what an app should do for a Catholic newspaper. Finally, we’ll look at the easiest and inexpensive ways to build an app, and get some hands-on experience in creating one for your pub.

Cathy McCabe Dee is Editor for Special Projects for Our Sunday Visitor Newsweekly. She has worked as a magazine editor, freelance writer, marketing coordinator, proofreader, and weekly newspaper writer and editor. She’s also taught non-fiction writing at the college level. She was recently asked to be a Community Teaching Assistant for the largest poetry MOOC in the world, ModPo, offered by the University of Pennsylvania through Coursera.com.

Cathy began her career at OSV as a book editor, but later transitioned to website administration. After working as Social Media Editor for several years, her role was expanded to include special projects including author platform and app development. She is an English major/slightly geeky/bookworm who has never seen a gadget she didn’t want to try. A founding member of CPA’s Social Media Committee, Cathy enjoys fast internet, clever tweets and too much Instagram. Follow her on Twitter @CathyDeeOSV and on Instagram @CathyBlogs.