As part of the capacity building for Sister Communicators in Ghana, some selected Sisters from 22 Women Religious Congregations have been trained in Website Development and Management.
The training focused on how to create and protect the website against hackers, publish on a website with the assistance of Content Management System (CMS), the kind of plugins needed to be installed, the role of administrators and editors.
The July 30 training at the Centre for Spiritual Renewal Santasi, Kumasi also focused on website ethics and camera skills.
Mr. Eric Coco Mawuenyegah, the head of the IT Department of the Centre for National Culture – Volta Region, exposed almost everything to be known about the development and management of a website.
He explained to the participants the importance of having a website and if sisters learn to manage the websites of their Institutes and Congregations well, it will go a long way to help them reach a wider audience.
He added that a website gives credibility, increases the trust people have in an organization and improves customer service.
Sisters were advised to use more websites because it has a wider reach and helps ministries grow.
There was a refresher knowledge on some ethics in writing and publications which focused on the need to avoid any form of defamation and how to bring in a rejoinder if need be.
The Sister Communicators were reminded to avoid the breach of contracts with domain users and website creators.
The Sister Communicators’ expectations were an avenue to seek knowledge in media and photography, be skilled in writing and editing of articles, progress in content creation and videography, ability to create and manage websites among other things to be learned in the media field.
Touching on the use of Camera, Mr. Derrick Attitsogbui, a team lead for Dex Media GH, guided the Sisters through the parts of the camera and a step-by-step process on how to assemble a camera and get it ready for use.
The Sisters commended the organisers of the training and appreciated Conrad Hilton Foundation for its strong financial support to the Catholic Sister Communicators Network, Ghana (CASCON-GH).
The Sister participants also thanked Hilton Foundation for providing 22 Religious Congregations with new Canon cameras and media jackets to be used for media work.
By Srs. Joan Dzifa Bosro, SSL, Jennifer A. Aikins HDR, Seraphine Ankrah FST, Adelaide Bemah Saahene, SSL (Catholic Sister Communicators Network, Ghana- CASCON-GH)
