Years ago, several wards I lived in back in Ohio and Indiana used to help the missionaries by writing their testimonies in the front of a Book of Mormon, and then either giving the book to a friend or giving it to the missionaries so that they could give it to an investigator. The idea was that a personal testimony helped a non-member understand that there were real people who held the book to be sacred, and they...
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Blogs are a great communication tool. The immediacy and individuality evident in blogs are, I believe, part of their draw. They allow individuals of all...
Posted by
Allen on Jan 29th, 2007 in
Cool Sites,
Ideas,
Videos |
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Video is a great way to share good Church-related content on the Web. Many people think that videos, in order to be effective, need to be very polished or take a lot of time. In browsing through some of the online video services, I’ve run across some good amateur examples of using video to help spread the word.
The following are a few videos that are concerned with temples. These are just a few; there are...
Posted by
Allen on Apr 17th, 2006 in
Mormon,
The Church |
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Today I ran across an article at eMarketer that I thought was pretty interesting. It talks about how people use the Internet to publish information about religion and how that information is found. There were three things in the article that I thought particularly interesting:
The Church’s Web site is the second most popular religion site on the Web, with a 5.07% market share, according to a Hitwise survey.
A...
Posted by
Allen on Apr 12th, 2006 in
Cool Sites |
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There are many, many Mormon-oriented Web sites available. Some of them are good; some are not. Because of the wide disparity in the quality of sites, directories of LDS-oriented Web sties are starting to spring up. The More Good Foundation has a small sampling of some such sites in our directory, accessible from the Foundation’s home page.
In looking around the Web I’ve discovered a couple of directories...
Posted by
Allen on Apr 7th, 2006 in
Web Design |
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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.
Web developers (yes, even LDS Web developers) need to be concerned with how usable their sites are. Key to that consideration is designing your site with...
Posted by
Allen on Mar 16th, 2006 in
Mormon |
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I was recently reading a report from a well-respected research organization, and it indicated that a larger number of people are creating “content” on the Internet than ever before. Even more impressive is the fact that in the rising generation, over half of teens have created some sort of Internet content.
Wow! Think about that for a moment. If those sort of statistics hold as true for the LDS...
I have a friend who loves to go to the temple. He loves the feeling he gets within its hallowed walls, and he loves doing work there for his ancestors. When he told me about his feelings about the temple, I was impressed and suggested that he might want to create a Web site about his temple so that others could learn of his love for temples and temple work.
He was excited about doing this, and went off to work on...
Posted by
Allen on Jan 27th, 2006 in
Mormon |
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I’ve been a writer for years and years; everything from newspaper articles to full-length books. (Do a search for my name sometime in Amazon.) One thing that I’ve learned in all that time is that writing for the Internet is different than any other type of writing you can do.
Don’t get me wrong–writers always need to be concerned about such fundamentals as audience, tone, level, and person....
Posted by
Allen on Jan 12th, 2006 in
Mormon |
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Just a little over a week ago, my wife and I packed up the holiday decorations for another year. The holidays were over, the visitors gone, the dinners enjoyed, and the memories cherished. With the tree, presents, and other decorations all put away, our living room and dining room suddenly had a lot more space available.
It is the same way with our lives. When there are cyclical changes–a new year, another...
