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April 9th, 2007 by Richard K Miller | Filed under Cool Sites, Mormon, Technology.If you're new here, read more about the More Good Foundation. We help members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormon church) share their beliefs on the Internet. Learn more about what Mormons believe or talk with Mormons at LDS.net.
Here are a few more good LDS websites we haven’t mentioned previously:
1. WardSocial.com and Came2Pass.com — These two sites allow you to submit and vote on stories related to the Church. Like their predecessor Sustaind.org, these sites operate like Digg.com. In addition to finding interesting LDS stories on these three sites, prudence suggets we should also branch out of our communities to participate on broader, non-Mormon sites like Digg.com, where we can also submit and vote on stories about our religion. (The creator of Came2pass.com is an avid Digg user.)
2. IfYeArePrepared.org — Here you’ll find a variety of options for subscribing to Church content. For example, you can subscribe by email or RSS to the Home Teaching message, which will be delivered each month. You can also subscribe to the Visiting Teaching message, the Priesthood/Relief Society lessons, and current Ensign articles. Their recent redesign looks awesome.
3. SpicyWardWeb — This isn’t a website, but a tool you can install. It’s a bit techie but really cool. After logging into your ward website on LDS.org, this Greasemonkey script will alter your ward membership directory so the addresses link to Google Maps. You can click on the address of anyone in your ward to view their location on the map. To use this you’ll need Firefox and the Greasemonkey add-on. The developer says more interesting scripts for LDS.org are coming.
Whenever we Mormons build something cool — like these sites above — I believe we should constantly ask ourselves how we can include people of others faiths. Even sites intended for Church members can at least include a paragraph or link that gives context and background to non-Mormons. This inclusionary attitude will help us make friends and avoid cliquishness.
“Whenever we Mormons build something cool — like these sites above — I believe we should constantly ask ourselves how we can include people of others faiths. Even sites intended for Church members can at least include a paragraph or link that gives context and background to non-Mormons. This inclusionary attitude will help us make friends and avoid cliquishness.”
Richard, I think this is an excellent idea. I’ll see what I can do to include some more things for those outside our faith on Came2Pass.com. I am also curious, if any would like to give feedback, what else would you like to see from Came2Pass.com? I have considered a secular news section as well, with a few regular feeds there until we build our user base - what do you think?
Jesse,
Maybe you could put a “Digg icon” on all of your posts. I know you don’t want to lose any participation to Digg, but the accompanying text could say, “If you think this would be interesting to a wider [non-Mormon] audience or might help someone understand the Gospel, Digg it.”
By the way, I consider you a prolific online member missionary by what I’ve seen you do.
Thanks! I really appreciate that. I feel the same way about you, Richard - a lot of my ideas are inspired from here.
I think you’ve got a great idea there. Not all my visitors, in fact probably most of them, don’t come in through the front page. There may be many that are non-members and may benefit from a target to that audience as well. A Digg icon back to Digg.com may be a good way (among others) to do that.
I’ve actually got another idea I may release today or tomorrow hopefully uniting some of the Mormon Digg audience into one place. I’ll post it here and on Digg once I’ve got it together. Your idea will compliment it very well.
As promised, I’ve added a new feature to Came2Pass.com that will hopefully bring Mormons and Mormon-valued people on Digg.com together into one place. You can see the announcement and details here:
http://www.came2pass.com/Miscellaneous/Are-You-Digg-User-1/
And, of course, you can digg the news here:
http://www.digg.com/software/Are_You_Mormon_Are_You_a_Digg_User_You_ll_Like_This
This is a neat free site that gives RS, EL and HP leaders the ability to send Home/Visit Teaching email reminders to their Teachers. It helps improve Home Teaching results and communication. Check it out at http://www.returnandreport.org
I started a new site in November which I like to call “Your one stop shop for Lds news, videos, cinema, singles, books and audio books!
http://www.entertainment4lds.com/