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.Speaking of websites launched by Church employees, Brian Hansbrow has [...]
LDSMediaTalk.com is a new blog created by several Church employees to share “technology ideas for LDS parents and youth.” While this blog is not an official publication of the Church, these bloggers are experts in their fields and are close to the issues. Anybody interested in how the Church uses and will use technology to [...]
October 22, 2007 – 4:49 pm
Facebook now allows advertisers to discover the size of specific demographic audiences. By doing a few searches related to the Church, I was able to get an idea of the number of Mormons on Facebook. (See image below.)
The number of people in the U.S. who listed a Church-owned university as their college*:
20,660 - Brigham Young [...]
October 22, 2007 – 12:03 pm
The More Good Foundation is pleased to announce a partnership with Dr. Richard Holzapfel to create the #1 website about Jesus Christ at Christ.org. (In the meantime, we are redirecting traffic to Mormon.org.)
Dr. Holzapfel is a BYU professor of Church History and Doctrine and a prolific author. We are very excited and honored to work [...]
I thought that it would be nice to keep a snapshot of when we reached 1,000 articles on our Mormonwiki. If you click on the thumbnail it will be enlarged.
Here are four ways the Internet can help you study the scriptures and other gospel material more consistently and more conveniently.
Be reminded each day to read the scriptures — Visit ReadTheScriptures.com to sign up for a daily scripture study email. You choose what you’re reading and how fast you want to go. There’s also an [...]
Jacob Durrant of AllAboutMormons.com is on a streak. He’s recently created eight videos explaining Gospel teachings in his own words:
A Crash Course in Mormonism
He’s also begun translating the videos into Portuguese, and all his videos are available on YouTube.
Here’s what Jacob is doing right:
He has created excellent videos using “consumer” level tools.
He shares his videos [...]
15-16 June 2007 are the first ever MormonWiki.com Edit Days. We are advising all More Good Foundation members and friends of the event. An edit need not be grand, just a few words can help increase the usefulness of MormonWiki. Consider my first edits:
My first tentative step to editing MormonWiki.com was to add Aaron the [...]
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 [...]
I recently met Whitney Johnson who serves in Church Public Affairs in Boston. She’s created a website called Know Your Neighbor which advocates kindness, service, neighborliness, and an “inclusionary” attitude as important elements of member missionary work. As the Prophet Joseph said, “friendship is one of the grand principles of Mormonism.” A [...]