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New team members

The More Good Foundation is growing. We’re pleased to have two new people on our team: Karen is our new editor, the quality control expert for all the published content on our websites. She brings an extensive background in writing and editing, including writing for the Ensign and Meridian Magazine. She speaks a bit of German and French. She’s the mother of two daughters. Heather is our new community...

1,000 articles on Mormonwiki

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....

Blogging as a Lightning Rod

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. 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...

Typing text in another language

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. Someone asked me how to set up Microsoft Word so that she could translate and type some good thing about Mormonism and the Mormon Church in another...

So long! :)

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. I worked at the More Good Foundation as an intern for eight months and began work soon after the Foundation was formed. It has been a blast! The position...

Open Content

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. Christopher Phillips has been advocating an LDS content repository like commoncontent.org. If the Church were to license some or all of its content with a...

Why Do We Use the term “Mormon” in Our Writing?

I recently received an e-mail that I thought was interesting. Because the concern expressed by this member may be shared by others, I thought it worth addressing. It is a valuable concern that shows insight, but I fear that the writer is missing the point. This is an excerpt from the e:mail: I earlier mentioned my interest in writing a web page intro– I am going to back out of that now, sorry. I am...

Writing Articles to Increase Others’ Understanding of Us

I have been with the More Good Foundation for a few weeks, and I am thrilled to participate in this work. I am becoming ever more convinced that the Foundation’s ideas about getting positive LDS information out on the Web, as well as its approaches to most effectively have that information found, will truly bear much fruit so far as increasing the world’s understanding and even acceptance of the...

Writing

We really need writers. It’s usually easier to find members who are willing to edit other people’s articles than people who accept the challenge of writing their own articles. At this time, we especially need articles on basic principles of the gospel. It should be relatively easy for any member of the Church to write an article of 800-1000 words about one of these basic topics. It shouldn’t take...

Writing and Search Engines

Not all writers and editors are familiar with what needs to be done when we write articles on the Internet. Since our goal is not only to write, but to have people see what we write, we need to follow a few rules to make sure people will find our articles on the Internet. There are basically two ways to use search engines to your advantage: 1. Obtain free traffic or natural search results by getting your Web site...
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