The Web needs your participation

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In this current “age of participation,” we (you and I) are forging the Web. Anyone can write a blog, create a video, post a photo, ask or answer a question, or vote on a story. What you contribute (and even what you consume — web sites are getting better at noticing what we pay attention to!) shapes what others find on the Internet.

With each word you read or write, each sentence, each page, and each link, each of us are helping to shape the web every day. (Seobook.com)

To describe the various projections of ourselves into cyberspace, I use the following metaphor: we’re cells, and we’re growing the surface area of our cellular membranes. Every time I write a blog item, or post a Flickr photo, or tag a resource in del.icio.us, I enlarge the surface area of that membrane. (blog.jonudell.net)

Believing that many are “kept from the truth because they know not where to find it,” we consider participation on the Internet by faithful Mormons to be extremely important. (We’ve previously discussed good things you can do on the Internet.)

Mormon church members with blogs or websites commonly link to the lds.org home page when talking about the Church. Sometimes Church members mentioning their faith don’t link at all. What would be ideal? If you talk about not drinking coffee because you’re a Mormon, link to a page about the Word of Wisdom. (This is a gentle request, Josh.) It’s usually better to link to a specific page at lds.org or mormon.org or any other good site rather than simply linking to the www.lds.org home page. Link to something relevant. Link to some obscure gem of a page that no one else has found. Link to something good. What you link to will shape what others find.

If you need help finding good web pages to link to, try ldsfind.com or ldssearch.com.

There’s also an interesting, though slightly technical, video about how we are shaping the Web. (source via)