Upload mp3 to MyAudioCast

Here are the steps to upload mp3 files to MyAudioCast, and publish on joomla

• Download the mp3 to your own computer
• Login to google using sjccm2013@gmail.com (get password from the admins)
• Go to http://www.myaudiocast.com, and click login using Google account on the top
• Click sjccm2013 on the top right and select "Manage" 
• Click "Upload new episode" (or "上傳新節目") on the right
• In the "episode create" screen, enter TItle, Description, and click "I'm Sure" and "Next Step"

• For example: 11/8/2013: 第一講（疏效平）：天主的話確實是生活的。（希四12）

•  upload the mp3 to myaudiocast.com

• The upload may take a few minutes to start, when it starts, it will show the progress bar turning green.  When it finishes, it will say: "節目已經上傳成功。"

• Click "回到管理頁面 "
• Click "Player embed code", and copy the code (iframe)
• Paste the code into Joomla

Tips to reduce photo size for uploads

I usually use Photoshop Element to process photos, but it's not a free software. I also have a free photo editor: Photoscape, which you can download from the internet.

I tried the following procedure with Photoscape to save jpeg files to smaller jpeg files:

1. Start Photoscape
2. Click Batch Editor
3. Select the photos that you want to downsize and move them to the main panel. (You shall see the file names listed on the top panel.)
4. Do not change anything (unless you want to do more editing) and click "Convert All"
5. Set where and in what names the new files will be saved, select JPEG Quality (70 is still adequate for web viewing), and click "Save".

[Thanks to Shingmin for the tip!]

Advent Events; Holy City Web Edition

Dear brothers and sisters of SJCCC,

Here are highlights of this week at http://www.sjccc.org:

• 將臨期彌撒及和好盛事 : 聖母無染原罪慶日中文彌撒: 12/8 (週四); 將臨期 SJCCC 團體和好聖事：12/16 (週五)
• 12/25 聖誕節慶祝晚會: 彌撒後 - 9:30PM 節目非常的溫馨熱鬧，請大家踴躍購票
• 1/1 Sacrament of Children Baptism: 嬰幼兒聖洗聖事, please contact Lucy by 12/15/2011
• 1/6-1/7 疏效平弟兄屬靈饗宴: 信主的人必有奇蹟隨著他們。（谷十六17）
• Multimedia: (BETA)
  • 聖城通訊 Holy City Magazine: (NEW)

    第275期 / 2011年 將臨期暨聖誕期 目錄
    編者的話
    禮儀年與教友生活-歐維禮神父

  • Roman Missal, Third Edition music, videos, and references
  • Planning Task Force: 我們的教會,天主的教會 Our Church, God's Church: Worskshop presentations (11/12), Task Force Group2 meeting (12/3)
  • 疏效平弟兄屬靈饗宴 講習會錄音 MP3
  • 聖歌 MP3:

    上主是我的牧者-答唱詠 (NEW, 11/20 Union Mass)
    Shepherd Me O God (NEW, 11/20 Union Mass)
    Seek Ye First (9/18 Mass)
    主永活在我心 (9/25 Mass)

• Picture Album 團體相簿:

  Planning Task Force Group2 meeting 12/3

  西北區感恩節 聚餐分享 11/25

  Advent Retreat 11/18-11/20

See SJCCC.org website for other news and resources including:

• 本周更新: 彌撒經文釋義, 信友禱辭, 林思川神父彌撒證道 .
• Prayer Request: 請為藍麗櫻母親的靈魂, 以及吳萬鈞伯伯的靈魂祈禱(11/26 殯葬彌撒)
• Calendars:聯合彌撒 Union Mass, 聖心學校月曆, 成人慕道班 課程表
• Feedback 反饋意見.

How to use Slideshare for posting Powerpoint slides for SJCCC

1. Login to www.slideshare.net
   id: sjcccbible@gmail.com, password: contact Webteam

2. on the top menu, you will see Home, Go PRO, Channels, Zipcast, please click "upload" and choose "upload publicly"

3. while uploading, it will have a screen that you can enter "title" "tag" and "category"
   choose "spiritual" for category and save.

Optionally, if you want to include an mp3 file as background music, you can upload the mp3 and time it with the slide pages using steps described in at this page:

http://www.labnol.org/internet/upload-mp3-files-on-slideshare/8893/
4. after it finished, it will have a sildeshow preview.  On the right you will see "embed" under facebook and email icons.

5. click it, select all (ctrl+A), copy and paste.

6. go to SJCCC article post, we have to paste the embed link.  The code I am using below is just a sample.

     - Change width to 595, height to 497. (yellow highlight section)

     - delete blue highlight section

(Provided by Grace Tsai and input provided by George Tsai)

Send Email to SJCCC eNews with phpList

As of Easter 2011, we are transitioning our eNews from dadaamail to phpList.  Here is the procedure to send eNew:

• Start your web browser (Internet Explorer or Firefox), Set "View -> Encoding" to Unicode (UTF-8)
  
• Sign in to the SJCCC eNew Control Panel to send email: http://sjccc.org/phplist/admin/ (contact admin for password)
  
• Click on "Send a Message" on Right Rail
• In the Content TAB (by defult), enter subject and message for both HTML and text:  Update Subject Line (Recommend to use the format: "SJCCC eNews: ..." (This can be Chinese and/or English) Enter your message in the box. (This can be Chinese and/or English)
• Send a test message to yourself
• Click "Save Changes" before clicking on any other TAB.
• Click the Lists TAB, and select "SJCCC eNews"
• Click "Send Message to the Selected MailingLists"

It is recommended that you don't use/edit other TABs:

• Format TAB: always use the HTML version which always include the text version as the multi-part mime attachment
• Format TAB: always use the SJCCC Member eNews template which contains the necessary legalese
• Attach TAB: attachments are not recommended

(Provided by Joy Xiuli Chu)

Webteam: transition to phplist

After upgrading to the latest version of dadamail, we were unable to get Chinese to work in the eNews. As the result, we are transitioning to phplist.

Tasks:

• prototype and test the send process
• write up procedure
• download/upload the member list
• update the footer in email to be legal compliance
• update the list subscription page
• change the subscribe on sjccc main page to use the new subscription page 
• edit technical configurations for phplist

Technical configurations: config.php changes: (~/www/phplist/config/config.php)

• define ("REGISTER",0);
• define("EMAILTEXTCREDITS",1);
• define("PAGETEXTCREDITS",1);
• define ("NOSTATSCOLLECTION",1);
• define("MAILQUEUE_BATCH_SIZE",360);
• define('MAILQUEUE_THROTTLE',1);
• define("USE_MANUAL_TEXT_PART",1);

Others to try out in the future:

• define('CLICKTRACK',1);
• define('CLICKTRACK_SHOWDETAIL',0);

See documentation:

• Send Rate, etc: http://docs.phplist.com/PhpListConfigSendRate
• Personalization: http://docs.phplist.com/Placeholders

Web: Joomla "Prev/Next" Navigation setting

We have the "Navigation" turned on in Joomla by default, which means at the bottom of the article, Joomla automatically provides <Prev> and <Prev> (or in Chinese <前一個> and <下一個>).  This is a very useful feature for the users to navigate to another article after reading the current one.  This is also useful to automatically provide internal links for search engine.
This is done by setting the Navigation in Article Manager->Parameters to Show, and by setting the Navigation in all the menu items to Use Global.

Question:

Sometime, this automatic navigation in Joomla does not make sense. For example, this page: http://sjccc.org/index.php/finance.html should point to earlier finance report instead of next community announcement.  What do you suggest?

Answer:
This "<Prev> and <Prev>" feature basically go to the prev/next article in a Category, so if you group all the financial articles into a category, then it would behave like what you'd like.

If you would like to turn this particular one off, since it's a menu item, you can select "Menus" on the top, and pick "團體". edit the article '財務 Finance', on the right rail, click "Parameters (Component)", and change "Show Navigation" from "Use Global" to "Hide", and Save.

How to Subscribe to SJCCC eNews?

It's very easy to subscribe to SJCCC eNew!

• At SJCCC main page (www.sjccc.org), click on "eNews Subscription" on the lower left hand side. 
• Just enter an email and click Subscribe. :)

There are two ways to unsubscribe:
1. same as above, but click on Unsubscribe.
2. in the eNew we send out, there is always an unsubscribe link at the bottom, it will take you to the same web page.

10/23 Saturday Watermark Potluck and Parent Group Workshop

Dear Watermark Parents,

Please be reminded that this Saturday, 10/23, the Watermark parents will have a potluck with the Watermark teens and young adults from 6 PM to 7:15PM at the lower church. 

Afterwards, the parents will regroup in room 2 for the workshop from 7:30 PM to 10 PM.  The topic will be "Understand our kids and the popular culture they live in", our panel speakers include 潘齊家, 陳莉娜, 張永錦, Patrick Ku, and Helena Geefay.  Facilitator will be 谷偉業.  Some discussion questions include:

• What are the characteristics of the popular culture?
• When our kids addict to computer games or internet, what/how shall we react?
• When our kids have different views with us (dating, moral value), what should we do?
• When our kids do not agree with Church teaching or drift away from faith, what shall we do?
• How can we create a right atmosphere so that our kids are willing to communicate with us?

Thank you very much for your participation and support.  Look forward to seeing all of you Saturday.

Blessings,
Amy, JunFen, and Wendar

Configure Dada Mail to send Chinese Emails

To Configure Dada Mail to send Emails in Chinese (Big5) by default:

1. add the Chinese char set in: ~/www/cgi-bin/dada/DADA: change Config.pm

• Change:
$HTML_CHARSET ||= 'iso-8859-1';
• To:
$HTML_CHARSET ||= 'big5';  

# $HTML_CHARSET ||= 'iso-8859-1';

• Add:

'Chinese Traditional (Big5) big5',

• Change:
charset => 'English (en) iso-8859-1',
• To:
# charset => 'English (en) iso-8859-1',

charset => 'Traditional Chinese (Big 5) big5',

2. Configure Dada Mail front end to use Chinese as default

• Select "Sending Options" on the left panel
• Select "Advanced" on the bottom
• Change "Default Character Set of Mailings " to 'Traditional Chinese (Big 5) big5'

3. It's also recommended that before you send an email, on your browser, change the  Character Encoding to Chinese Traditional (Big5), in Firefox, this is under "View->Character Encoding"

SJCCC Calendar

SJCCC Master Calendar is a combination of many functional/group calendars that are maintained by each group. 

Each of the group calendar is a separate Google calendar:

• sjccc.faith@gmail.com - faith team
  
• sjccc.liturgy@gmail.com - liturgy
  
• sjccc.sacred@gmail.com - school
  
• sjccc.all@gmail.com - overall/council

SJCCC.Calendar (http://www.sjccc.org/calendar.htm) is a consolidated view of all these group calendars, it is available from the left rail of sjccc.org.  Here are some tips on how to use this master calendar as a community member:

• Click on  月曆 on the left side of sjccc.org and you will see a Monthly View of the calendar for current month
• On the top left, you can click on left arrow or right arrow to move the previous or next month, you can also click on the down arrow to navigate using a small calendar
• On the top right, you can print, or switch between Month view and Week view
• You can also click on "Agenda" to select which sub-group calendars you want to see.  For example, to exclude "US Holidays" from the current view, uncheck "US Holidays"
• To see more detail of a particular event, just click on the event.  A pop up window will appear.  You can get even more detailed information by clicking on the "More Detailed" link in the pop up window

How to Add/Edit events in a group calendar:

• Go to Google Calendar: http://www.google.com/calendar/render
• Login to your group (contact leader for the password)
• Navigate to the day of the event, and click on the grid (e.g., 7/8/2010)
• Enter the event information (e.g., 7-9pm Council Meeting) and click "Create Event", and you are done!
• If you want to add more information, just click on the event, and click "Edit Event Details", and you can enter location and other detail information

Uploading SJCCC pictures

Our current plan is to leverage external services like Picasa to share community pictures.  This enable us to leverage the very nice state of the art features without a lot of infrastructure, and it allows the members to help and participate in the process.

How to Upload Pictures to the SJCCC website:

• Go to:  http://picasaweb.google.com/home
• Log in as:  sjccc2011c@gmail.com (changes depending on the year, contact webteam @ sjccc.org for password)
• Please create a folder in a the format yyyy-mm-dd-EventName, for example: 2010-02-28-Lantern-Festival-[your-name]
• Please set the privacy to "Unlisted"
  
• Please upload pictures at 1600 or 1024 pix, I think that resolution should be sufficient.
• When you are done, send a message to  webteam @ sjccc and we will link the album to the sjccc website

Please feel free to contact us if there are any issues.

8/1/2013: Tony: If Google redirects you from picasaweb to google plus, please use the following URL since google plus does not support slideshow of photo albums yet.

• https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/myphotos?noredirect=1

eNews to SJCCC Members

Dear Chair Board,
Would you please use the alias "enews @ sjccc.org" when you want to send an email to the SJCCC Community? This way, Xiuli and I can handle the request without duplicating efforts/emails.

We now have close to 600 people in the email list now. We need to respect people's email rights as they are our family in Christ, and we also don't want to get into problem legally (there are government SPAM regulation) and with the Internet Service Providers (they don't deliver our emails if they see a lot of complains). After moving to the current ISP earlier this year, things are much better now, and our emails are being delivered. Here are some best practices/Suggestions:

• Please send us a subject line in English (Chinese do not display consistently in subject line)
  
• Please only send information that is directly related to SJCCC and of interest to most of the people
  
• Please address the community and sign your letter. We are not to WRITE the email for you, we are delivering. Think of yourself as the Shepard addressing your sheep. We are just your mailmen, mailmen don't write anything for you. :)
• If possible, please have both English and Chinese in the text. Many people can't read Chinese email (all Youth/most YAG, many older computers, and blackberries), and some people can't read English email (less).
  
• It's not good to have attachments, we can upload your attachments and send URL to it.
• Usually, try to avoid sending multiple emails per day to the community (our previous stated preference was 1-2 per week). We sent 4 emails in the last 2 days, and we see people unsubscribe when the volume goes up since some people may be annoyed. With this alias, we can try to regulate the flow to avoid this.
  

Thank you for your work for Christ and for the Community.

May God bless us to do His will,
+Tony

Sending SJCCC eNews to members

Here is the reference instruction for sending SJCCC Members eNew emails:

1. Start your web browser (Internet Explorer or Firefox)
2. Set "View -> Encoding" to Unicode (UTF-8)
3. Sign in to the SJCCC Member eNew Control Panel to send email: http://sjccc.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/sign_in/sjccc_member/ (contact admin for password. You can also go to the main page to send email to Friends or Sacred Heart School: http://www.sjccc.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi?flavor=send_email )
   
4. Update Subject Line (Recommend to use the format: "SJCCC eNews: ..."
   
5. Leave the format as "Text". (For now, only text without formatting, we will test and provide instructions for HTML in the future)
   
6. Copy your message in the box. This can be Chinese and/or English.
7. In the "Send Test Messages To" box, enter your email address
8. Click the yellow "Send a Test Message", and confirm
9. There will be a pop up window with sample message, the Chinese in that window will be messed up, please ignore. Go to your Email software, and check the test.
10. If test does not work try again or contact the admin
11. If test works, go back to the Control Panel, DOUBLE CHECK that the Encoding is still Unicode/UTF-8, and click on the green "Send Mailing List Message", and confirm
    

Admin: Tony, Xuili

Please remember:

• Relevance: There are many subscribers, please send only SJCCC news with relevance to broad subset of people.
• Audience: Some members only read Chinese (e.g., seniors) some only read English (youth, Watermark YAG, and people whose computer that are not set up to read Chinese).
• Cadence (Frequency): Please avoid sending multiple emails on the same day, unless absolutely necessary
• Speed: We are set to send at a very slow rate to maximize delivery, currently, it takes about 1 hour to send to the entire list.
  

Dada Mail Configuration

Dada Mail is now working again as the engine for eNews delivery and subscription. Here we will keep documentation for this service.

Available lists:

• SJCCC Member eNews
• SJCCC Sacred Heart School
• Chinese Catholic Friends - Opt-ins from evangelization activities
  

Generic List Sign Up Page: http://www.sjccc.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/
Admin & Send Emails: http://sjccc.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/admin/

Administrators contact: Xiuli, Tony

Benefits for using Dada Mail & When to use Dada Mail: (vs. using an Email Alias)

• Primarily newsletter distribution: e.g., 1 to many vs many to many communication
• Standard format/template
• CANSPAM compliant footers
• Automated subscription and unsubscribes
• Automated install/upgrade by our hosting company
• Ability to set delivery rate (e.g., 1 per second)
• Send FROM an official, central address
  

Reference:

• Dada Mail: http://dadamailproject.com/

Technical config:

8/3/09: To get Chinese working with Dada Mail

• In the Dada Mail Web page for administrators, in "Manage List -> Sending Options -> Advanced", changed the "Default Character Set of Mailings" to "utf-8"
  
• In Linux, Changed the default sending CHARSET from: 'iso-8859-1' to 'utf-8' in:~/www/cgi-bin/dada/extensions/tfmail/TFmail_config.pl
• Advise the senders to change their browser Encoding to 'utf-8'
  

Watermark Joomla

Brandon has done a basic install of Joomla with the sample database for Watermark at the new site

Front Page: http://www.sjccc.org.whsites.net/watermark/
Admin Site: http://www.sjccc.org.whsites.net/watermark/administrator/index.php

• user = admin (ping Tony/Brandon for pword)
• the only mod is to set "Search Engine Friendly URLs"=Yes
  

phpMyAdmin: http://www.sjccc.org.whsites.net/pma/

• database = watermark
• user = sjccc (ping Tony/Brandon for pword)
  

Useful Joomla resources:

• Absolute Beginners Guide to Joomla!: http://docs.joomla.org/Beginners
• Joomla! 1.5 Quickstart: http://www.scribd.com/doc/2299418/Joomla-15-Quickstart
• Learn Joomla! 1.5 Fast!: http://help.joomla.org/files/VisualGuide15.pdf
• Joomla extensions: http://www.joomla.org/
  

Uploading file to SJCCC with westhost (updated 7/27/09)

Dear Web Team,
We have migrated to Westhost, and DNS is now pointing to the new site. Here is how to upload files to the new sjccc site:

• Web pages can be access at: www.sjccc.org
• Web Based Email: http://sjccc.org/uebimiau/
• Pop/smtp servers: sjccc.org, pop port 110, smpt port 2525
  
• use a secure FTP tool, such as CoreFTP (free at download.com)
• SFTP/SSH Host name: sjccc.org
• USER: sjccc (please contact me for password access)
• please put files under: /www/sjccc

NOTE: all mailboxes now have a 50MB quota. Please manage accordingly.

For now, the OLD site is still accessible:

• ftp: shell2c25.carrierzone.com
• user-name: sjccc.org (please contact me for password access)
• email: http://webmail.x7hosting.com/
  

God bless,
+Tony