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More Good Foundation Press Release: MormonMusic.org Launches April 6, 2009

MORE GOOD FOUNDATION 560 South State Street Orem, UT 84058 Phone (801) 705-5115 Press Release Contact: Karen Merkley, Director of PR & Marketing Phone: (801) 705-5104 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 9 A.M. EDT, March 27, 2009 MORE GOOD FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES LAUNCH OF MORMONMUSIC.ORG OREM, UT, MARCH 27, 2009– The More Good Foundation—non-profit creator of quality websites, social networks, and virtual...

Flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon

Greg McMurdie muses, What if Church members used blogs and other New Media tools to help fulfill President Benson’s vision of “flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon”? President Benson said, “The Book of Mormon is the instrument that God designed to ’sweep the earth as with a flood, to gather out [His] elect.’ (Moses 7:62.) This sacred volume of scripture needs to become more...

Telling our stories through New Media subject of new BYU class

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. A new class at BYU is studying storytelling through the New Media. This class, Theater and Media Art (TMA) 315r, studies the use of YouTube, Facebook,...

Public affairs representative as local blogger/columnist

Continuing the theme of integrating gospel sharing habits into our routines, I like what Dana King has done in St. Louis. Dana King serves as a Church public affairs representative in her hometown of St. Louis, MO. When her local newspaper, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, launched a multi-faith religion blog, Dana decided to get involved. She writes about her Mormon faith while her local colleagues write about their...

Usage of the word “Mormon”

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. Our own Heather Newell has an article in Mormon Times about usage of the word “Mormon”. As the head moderator at LDS.net, she occasionally...

Student blogging at BYU

LDS Living has an article on Professor Richard Holzapfel’s inclusion of blogging in the religion curriculum at BYU: For his religion class this semester, Richard Holzapfel changed his usual scripture log assignment to an online blogging assignment where students write their thoughts and feelings on gospel subjects. … Holzapfel said he and students have already seen positive results, engaging in...

Integrating Gospel Sharing Habits into our Existing Routines

Online gospel sharing will be easier if we can integrate it into our existing routines. A recent BYU Daily Universe article explains that Dr. Richard Holzapfel is encouraging gospel blogging by making it part of the curriculum. In BYU religion classes, it’s common to be asked to keep a private study journal throughout the semester. By moving the assignment online, the study journal may benefit a much larger...

To online investigators: “Can I help you find anything?”

A new analytics program called Woopra allows website operators to not only see who is visiting their website in realtime but to initiate a conversation with them. This has interesting implications for online missionary work since it means that investigators could be offered help as they search online. Here is a 3-minute video demonstrating Woopra on MormonWiki.com: This strikes me as the online equivalent of the...

What was the “Mormon” Internet like 7 years ago?

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. In celebration of its 10 year anniversary, Google has released a tool for searching its oldest search index, from 2001. A search for “Mormon...

Online Mormon Voices Needed

Perceptions of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) are changing as the Internet provides new opportunities for faithful Mormons to share their lives and faith online. If you’re wondering if you can really make a difference by coming off the bleachers and entering the field, we hope to settle it in your mind and heart that your voice is needed. Let me share with you comments...
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