Memorandum To: Pastors, Administrators, Diocesan Staff From: Monsignor James T. Mahoney Date: April 20, 2020 RE: ZOOM - a major caution if you use this One of the dioceses in New Jersey, like most of us, uses ZOOM as its major platform for videoconferencing. Parishes and dioceses use ZOOM for announcements, life-streaming, etc. Yesterday, we learned that ZOOM had been hacked in this New Jersey diocese. Pornographic content and images were now showing up during their use of Zoom - even during the live-streaming of Masses. This is profoundly upsetting. We need the help of pastors and parish staffs to learn what video conferencing tool you use for live streaming, etc. Tom Barrett has put together a brief survey to learn what you are using and how it works. Please complete this by Wednesday. We'll use your ideas to develop some suggestions for all to use video conferencing tools other than ZOOM. We can learn from each other. Here is the survey you can complete. Just click on the link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/QTDSKK6 Thanks for your help.
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We have poor cell service and wifi in our church so live-streaming would not provide good quality or connection therefore pre-recording is a better option for us. Wi-Fi signal is weak, and connection is not broadband
We have not been able to live stream through eCatholic because we didn't have the proper equipment and ordering it would not get it here until after Easter. We were able to manage the livestream through FB live, but don't really care for that option. We only Live streamed during Holy Week per the diocesan request and then went back to recording this past week-end.
We had connection and audio issues with live-streaming both on YouTube and Facebook.
Recording earlier in the day and then posting allows us to edit the video with music lyrics, scripture texts, etc. We do this eight times per week. Monday to Saturday daily Mass, Saturday evening vigil Mass, and Sunday morning Mass.
Just from the parishes who responded to this survey, over 292 Masses, on average, are
Live-Streamed each week in the Diocese of Paterson during COVID-19 Crisis.
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Weekday 350 views, Sunday views 2900. Total number people is greater than the number of views but unable to be determined. You should measure in "views".
Between 3.5K and 6K
Not sure
150
Weekly english 10-20, Spanish 50+; Weekend English 50, Spanish 200+
500
913 viewed easter, 407 divine mercy. 50-100 m-w-f. holy week was great--you can see all our numbers (stations of cross, 4 rosary, seven last words of christ) on our youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7oIaled2w9ulQl6Gr-IOWA/
300 views, plus other individuals in home
1000
2000
250-350 daily Masses and 3K - 8k on weekend
Weekday 180, Sunday 1400
Weekdays 10, weekend 50
Weekdays - 150 or so; Weekends - 500 or so.
80 to 90 people
500 to over 1,000 people
Between 75 and 100 Saturday; about 200 Sunday
15-150 when live streaming (later the views go up between 250-1,100)
4/19 (recorded)180 views Easter Sunday morning; (recorded) 56 & Facebook Live 100 logins live, 757 views
60-200
500
Approximately 150; yet Easter had 623 for 11AM, 778 for 9AM,342 for Vigil,Good Friday 538, Holy Thursday 547
Sunday 1500; weekday 150
200
Daily Masses: 100 Accounts, Sunday Masses: 200 Accounts. Some accounts are singular persons and other accounts are multiple persons, e.g. an entire family.
Week day 600 weekend 1,000
Daily Mass between 60-80. Sunday Mass between 1500-2500
Daily 100 Weekend 600
Differs from weekday to Sunday (must also be careful not to confuse "views" with "unique viewers." For daily Mass, all three media (FB, YouTube & eCatholic): 182. This past Sunday's Mass: 736. Easter Sunday: 1,205. Also important to note that a unique viewer could be one person, or a family of 4 or 5! No way to accurately estimate.
60 on weekdays, 300 on Sunday
130. live on Sundays - more watch the replay, 30 during the weekday masses
Daily 45 weekend 180
Sunday Mass is viewed by an average of 400
Approximately 250
400 by the end of the day. During the video maybe 50
Weekdays: 200-300 | Sundays: 500-700
150
125-800
Weekend Mass - 300, Daily Mass - 100
Daily Mass - 50 persons, Sunday mass - 1000
About 800 views live. 2,500 - 3,000 views after they are posted. Weekdays (Facebook live streaming 20 plus viewers) / Sundays (Facebook Live streaming 80 plus viewers ) / Recorded Parish website - (April 5, 176 viewers / April 12, Easter Sunday 600 viewers / April 19 - 95 viewers -- These number are from eCatholic notifications.