(ANS – Brasilia) – Yesterday 16 August, the Brazilian  Salesian  Bulletin presented new platform providing a new news site and relative versions for tablet and smartphone.

The Salesians responsible for the (SB) took up the challenge to use the new technologies as allies in the mission of educating and evangelising the young. Yesterday,  Don Bosco's birthday, they launched a new communication  initiative  for the  Salesian Family: www.boletimsalesiano.org.br 

“The aim of the SB is to be a means of information and of formation for the whole Salesian Family. From its very beginning, according to Don Bosco's own wishes  135 years ago, it gives an account of what the Salesians and the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians  are doing, but above all it is intended to spread the Salesian way of looking at the world,” Fr Nivaldo Luiz Pessinatti Editor of the Brazilian Salesian Bulletin, explains. Following the example of Don Bosco and Mother  Mazzarello, the  Salesian  Family in Brazil wants to be faithful to its  mission in the  ‘new playgrounds’ of communication which are opening up for us in what is called cyberspace.” 

On the new portal there are the site of the SB of Brazil on which it is possible to find  articles and specific web services, daily news items from the six Provinces of the Salesians, the  9 of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians and various groups of the Salesian Family in  Brazil with the activities of the various sectors  (schools, social works and parishes). It is also possible from the site to access  material from other editions of the SB in other countries as well as photos and videos. 

A second novelty is the  Digital SB. With the same quality as the printed magazine the SB is offering new resources, with a totally integrated new structure  for the new  digital applications. The SB is available for tablet, a version of which can be downloaded free from Apple Store and Google Play (Android). It is not a reproduction of the printed magazine  but a presentation of the  contents in dynamic and interactive form using  the various resources which the platform offers. 

Also available  (at present only in  Apple Store) is the version of the SB for Iphone 4, 3gs and Ipod Touch, intended and designed specifically for the small screen of the smartphone, with the same rich  content and  versatility of interaction. 

The SB portal and the  apps are being developed thanks also to the  contributions offered by the readers and users to improve the  contents and their  presentation.

Published 17/08/2012