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This weekend, the official Facebook page for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints surpassed 500,000 “likes.” That’s grown from 300,000 fans a year ago. According to the Facebook Page Leaderboard, the Church’s page at Facebook.com/LDS ranked #11 in the category of Church/Religious Organization in number of fans. The Church has many other pages on Faceboook. You can see a complete list of the Church’s Facbook pages here on LDS Media Talk. You may be interested in reading the article “Why The Mormon Church Tops Facebook Page Rankings” by Jesse Stay on AllFacebook.com. Share on Facebook  Read More →

Recently, some articles were published at the two columns I write for at Examiner.com. The first is the Seattle Multi-Faith Examiner and the second is the Marysville Parenting Examiner. Both columns focus on distinct parts of the local communities of the Greater Seattle Area and the Marysville Area. The former being a focus on what [...]  Read More →

Greg West has provided me permission to republish this article from the Society of the prevention of Anti-Mormonism (SPAM). If … Continue reading »  Read More →

I have set up three new groups on Facebook for all eBook readers and authors who enjoy well-written, clean books in a variety of genres. Please Recommend  If you are a reader, please feel free to recommend books you have read. If you are an author, please feel free to tell the group about your own books, and to recommend other authors. Go Clean! Come join the group. Let’s share good things in life with the world and help keep it CLEAN! 99 Cents Clean eBook Group ~ HERE  $2.99 Clean eBook Group ~ HERE $3.99 – $6.99 Clean eBook Group ~ HERE Anne Bradshaw Author, True Miracles with Genealogy: Help from Beyond the Veil at http://truemiracleswithgenealogy.com Epic Genealogy Giveaway Starting Soon!  Read More →

After two years of playing around on one of the worlds most popular social websites, I am still figuring it out. Just when I think I got it, they change it. So I am pulling the blonde card here. I finally got a fan site up for “5 Nuts in a Nutshell.”  I know, I know.  It’s about time.  Truth is, I didn’t know I could make a fan site for my site… how sad is that.  Then someone told me the other day that I really needed to set one up so that people could see when I posted and all that jazz.  I thought I would give it a go… and here it is:    Click here!!! I don’t worry, I am not going to hate you if you don’t “like” me — I’m just not petty that way.  I just thought it would be a great place to post my updates. I also want to thank everyone for voting for “5 Nuts in Nutshell” this week.  I feel overwhelmed with all the responses and definitely loved!  Read More →

The LDS Newsroom has just posted a blog “Church Has Strong Presence on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter,” which describes how the Church uses Facebook pages, YouTube channels, and Twitter accounts. Facebook The website AllFacebook.com lists nearly 3,000 pages in the category “Church/Religious Organization.” You may be interested to note that 5 of the Church’s official Facebook pages ranked among the top 100 — including 2 in the top 25. Here are the LDS-related Facebook pages in the top 100: #10 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints – official Church page # 21 Mormon.org – official Church page #25 Joseph Smith, The Prophet – an individual’s page #30 Mormon Messages – official Church page #35 LDS General Conference – an individual’s page #43 Mormon Channel – official Church page #46 LDS Members from Around the World –an individual’s page #51 Going to the Temple – an individual’s page # 81 LDS Newsroom – official Church... Read the rest of this entry »

The present population of the United States is just over 300 million. The “population” of Facebook is over 500 million. According to their own press room, that’s just the number of active users. If it were a country, Facebook would be the third largest on earth (China and India being the first).   About a year ago, Facebook passed up Google as the most viewed website in the U.S.   How long has Facebook existed? Seven years. It was launched in 2004 by 19 year old Mark Zuckerberg as a networking site for college students at Harvard, and by the time it was fully opened to the public in 2006, it was the seventh most popular site on the Internet.   Earth’s population is growing at a rate of about 357,000 babies born per day, and Facebook is growing at about double that number of new users per day.   One of the big questions that people have is, why? Why is Facebook growing so fast? What’s the big deal?   Perhaps the answer lies less in Facebook... Read the rest of this entry »

Did you know that the Perpetual Education Fund has a page on Facebook in English, with corresponding pages in Spanish for Mexico and Peru, in addition to their website at pef.lds.org? March 31, 2011 marked the 10th anniversary of this great program designed to provide worthy young adults of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with the support and resources necessary to improve their lives through education and better employment to better serve their family, the Church, and their community. Learn more in the article “Perpetual Education Fund Fulfills Prophetic Promises” in the Church News and Events on LDS.org. Several years ago, I served a Church service mission with the Perpetual Education Fund. It was my pleasure to spend one night a week calling students throughout Latin America to check up on their progress in schooling and make sure they were following through on their goals. I could see first-hand how this program provided them opportunities to improve their... Read the rest of this entry »

Call it narcissistic addiction but there is a Facebook page that incessantly demands answers to direct questions – yet the admin’s themselves refuse to give answers to questions being asked of them. Instead, they ban, delete comments, and then complain how no Latter-day Saint Apologist. Yes, this is another post exposing ChallengingMormon Apologetic page on Facebook. The Page [...]  Read More →

At one time I had a dream that some day I will be at home and writing full time. This vision centered around being a successfully published author of fiction. However, there is a different realization to this dream. Yes, I am at home and raising a wonderful and most adventurous daughter, I am also focused on [...]  Read More →

Alguns dias atás eu compareci ao fórum na BYU, onde Mark Zuckerberg (CEO do Facebook) e o senador Orrin Hatch de Utah falaram sobre tecnologia. Hatch respondendo as perguntas que foram feitas anteriormente por alunos da BYU na página da BYU no Facebook . Zuckerberg, falou sobre a fundação do Facebook, o seu conselho para os empreendedores que estão começando, e sua visão para o futuro da tecnologia e meios de comunicação social. Este relato foi traduzido do blog de Larry Richman, LDSMediaTalk.com Hoje, o Facebook tem 500-600 milhões de usuários ativos mensais. Mais da metade dos usuários da Internet nos EUA usam o Facebook. Dentro de dois anos, aproximadamente a metade da população geral dos EUA estará no Facebook. No começo do Facebook: Mark falou sobre como ele teve uma idéia em seu dormitório na Universidade de Harvard e a desenvolveu em uma empresa valendo talvez US $ 50 bilhões (que, aliás, tem apenas cerca de 2.000 funcionários). Ele tinha um curso duplo, em... Read the rest of this entry »

The Internet gives everyone a voice. Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg  and U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch were at the BYU’s Marriott Center this morning for a special technology forum. Zuckerberg spoke about technology and education as Sen. Hatch asked a few of the questions previously submitted through BYU’s Facebook page. It was an interesting forum, relatively short (less than an hour), but the most interesting comment from Mark Zuckemberg for me was when he said that One thing that gets blown out of proportion in our culture is the focus on the single person or the couple of people that are running something. The success of Facebook is all about the team that we built. I think that’s true of any successful company. I couldn’t agree more, but obviously Mark Zuckemberg is a living proof of something that is getting blown out of proportion, but it is not his fault!  Read More →