Mormon Bloggers

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 »

If you tweet about LDS General Conference, remember to use the hashtag #ldsconf. Learn about Twitter. Learn about the #ldsconf hashtag. Share on Facebook  Read More →

The following was delivered today as part of a panel discussion titled “Mormon Media Studies: Across Web Time, Cyberspace, and Blogging Disciplines” in the symposium “Mormon Media Studies: Across Time, Space, and Disciplines,” at the BYU Conference Center in Provo, Utah. The Church provides scriptures, teachings of the latter-day prophets and apostles, and other instructional materials to help individuals and families learn, live, and share the gospel of Jesus Christ. In the last few years, the Church has made great progress in providing materials electronically by way of websites, scriptures online, mobile applications, online videos, streamed radio content, and a huge online gospel library. Electronic means can provide materials more quickly, less expensively, and more directly to people who can use them. And multiple formats can make it more likely that people will engage with the materials. For example, in addition to the printed text of general conference in the Church magazines... Read the rest of this entry »

I haven’t been this excited about something the church has done in a long time.  Don’t get me wrong.  I love the blessings of being involved in church activity each week, especially as I watch the young single adults grow and develop (I serve in the Bishopric of a YSA ward).  But for me, this is probably the single most exciting development I have seen come from Salt Lake City in many years. I’m talking about the new Mormon.org, a complete redesign of the companion website to lds.org, the two main websites of the Mormon church.  Since I make a living with computers in IT support, I have been watching the church embrace and use technology for my entire adult life.  In the early nineties I wondered for a long time when the church would finally get a website.  When they did, it took me a while to not think that it was just a little bit behind the times even when it was new.  I felt the same way when Mormon.org first came out.  But with release 4.0 of the site,... Read the rest of this entry »

Olá amigos e leitores do Blog Mórmon, gostaria de divulgar nossa página no Twiiter: http://twitter.com/blogmormon Visitem e nos siga lá, abraços Editor do Blog Mórmon  Read More →

Just a note or two before I pass the baton to Marion . . . As I have been haunting the internet in the last two years I have come across some very fascinating people who are talented authors. One in particular is also a media guru. Not the self-proclaimed type on twitter who thinks they are going to help you conquer the world if you emulate their superior online marketing skillz (you know, the ones who follow thousands of people but themselves only have fifty followers), but the REAL kind of media guru.The kind who people listen to. In addition to being a very talented author, Marion Jensen is a media advocate. He is a techie. He is someone who understands things like Creative Commons, the rise of e-books, and the ways in which the internet is changing at the most basic levels. I invited him to share his thoughts about media today. Since he won’t give a plug for his own books, I will do so for him. Marion writes under the pen name Matthew Buckley, and has two published middle-grade... Read the rest of this entry »

Has anyone found a good use for Twitter yet? Maybe I’ve just been doing it wrong, or not doing it enough, but I guess I just don’t get it. Oh, well. I get the Facebook thing – totally. It’s awesome, but Twitter? I know it’s supposed to be about listening to others and sharing thought and such, but still… I just got Tweet Deck on my computer, which makes it super easy to update almost all of my social networds at the same time, and it tells me what all my friends and contacts are saying in their updates within seconds of the update. How do you use your Twitter account? Do you have a way that actually works well for you?  Read More →

Recently, I have spent a fair amount of time reading about social media and promotion. Whereas social sites like Facebook and Twitter used to be the magical realms where only the brave, computer savvy individual would dare tread, more and more people have started to ride the wave. But individuals are not the only ones who have taken notice. Businesses are starting to build and manage their own accounts on these sites so that they can quickly and efficiently disseminate information to their followers. And I am not talking about just BIG business, either. Small mom-and-pop operations, artists, musicians, marketers, insurance agents, professionals in every industry . . . they are all participating. I have been no different–because I have seen the power (wisely used/not abused) of these sites when people with large followings use the mediums to keep in touch with their peeps and tweeps. This brings me to my subject about BRANDING. I have started a list on twitter where I am following... Read the rest of this entry »