{"id":2472,"date":"2011-04-07T10:12:27","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T17:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/?p=2472"},"modified":"2011-04-07T10:12:27","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T17:12:27","slug":"tails-of-the-fishop-a-clever-fish-fry-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/tails-of-the-fishop-a-clever-fish-fry-promotion","title":{"rendered":"Tails of the Fishop: A Clever Fish Fry Promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone at Christ the Servant Parish in Canton, Ohio has an acute sense of pun. To promote their Friday Lenten gatherings, the parish is posting video &#8220;Codcasts&#8221; featuring some very fishy characters:<\/p>\n<ul>\n\t<figure id=\"attachment_2480\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2480\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Fishop-150x150.png\" alt=\"The Fishop\" title=\"The Fishop\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2480\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2480\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Fishop<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<li>The Fishop Phillip Atolop<\/li>\n<li>The Codinal<\/li>\n<li>Seamour Shrimp<\/li>\n<li>The Monkfish<\/li>\n<li>Sister Catherine Margaret Crab<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure who&#8217;s behind the videos, but she sure appears to be having fun. Take a look and see for yourself:<\/p>\n<h3>A Message from the Fishop<\/h3>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"349\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/spvcBjuRQlw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<h3>The Codinal Learns about Helping Japan<\/h3>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"349\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YYYyFr8GRvA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<h3>The Codinal Talks Taste<\/h3>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"349\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RrW79Us8sFU?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>What a great way to promote a parish event! And the promotion seems to be working: Christ the Servant Parish sold 731 dinners last Friday, March 25. Not bad for a fun, low-budget project. The videos are made with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0040702HA\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=nickslists-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B0040702HA\">Flip camera<\/a>, which costs under $200, and posted to YouTube where they are then embedded in a free blog from Blogger and promoted on a Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>You can see all the videos at <a href=\"http:\/\/tailsofthefishop.blogspot.com\/\">Tails of the Fishop<\/a>. You can also keep updated by following the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Tails-of-the-Fishop\/185177848191287\">Fishop on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How could your school adapt this idea to promote your own events?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone at Christ the Servant Parish in Canton, Ohio has an acute sense of pun. To promote their Friday Lenten gatherings, the parish is posting video &#8220;Codcasts&#8221; featuring some very fishy characters: The Fishop Phillip Atolop The Codinal Seamour Shrimp The Monkfish Sister Catherine Margaret Crab I&#8217;m not sure who&#8217;s behind the videos, but she &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/tails-of-the-fishop-a-clever-fish-fry-promotion\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tails of the Fishop: A Clever Fish Fry Promotion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[62,26],"class_list":["post-2472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-lent","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prZ8V-DS","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2472"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2492,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions\/2492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}