Monthly Archives: October 2006

Sharing the Gospel through Video

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.While the Church will publish its own videos on LDS.org, [...]

LDS Scriptures Plugin for Firefox

Scott Barber created a plugin that lets you search the LDS Scriptures from within the Firefox search box. After installing, choose “LDS Scriptures” from the list of search engines and fire away.
This plugin requires Firefox 2.0, which was just released this week.
Link: LDS Scriptures Plugin for Firefox

What’s So Funny About Peace, Love, and Understanding

Utah magazine Connect has a good article on the importance of being understanding of each other in a state where the Mormon church is the dominant religion:
What’s So Funny About Peace, Love, and Understanding
We’ve blogged before about the concentration of religions in America.

Globalización para los SUD: adopta una wiki !

“La globalización é un tema mencionado en todo momento, importantísimo en el mundo de hoy. Los nuevos medios de comunicación, los grupos con intereses especiales y los poderes gobernamentales la aplican de manera constante en los ámbitos de la economia, el derecho, la ética, la ciencia política y la sociología. Para La Iglesia de [...]

Grateful Dead-style Meetings (Or, If Jerry Garcia were your bishop)

One distinctive feature of a Grateful Dead concert is that everyone is allowed to record it. Tapers, as they are called, bring their own recording equipment to concerts, then share their recordings with other Deadheads. Instead of hurting record sales, the sharing of concert recordings promotes the band and grows the fans.
What would [...]

NorthTemple.com

A group of designers at the Church have started a blog called NorthTemple.com. It’s not an official publication of the Church but an interesting read for friends of the Church, especially those with an interest in the Web. Topics range from design principles to beautiful landscapes to watching General Conference on a Mac [...]

Why I am active in my faith

Connor Boyack recently received an email from a non-Mormon visitor to his blog. The visitor asked “How do your ecclesiastic leaders encourage young people, such as yourself, to remain members? Why is the commitment in the LDS Church so much harder, yet significantly higher than other denominations?”
Connor used his blog to answer the question [...]

Todo lo que hacemos y pensamos ahora, tiene alcance internacional

El título es una citación del President Kimball pero se aplica bien a lo que queremos hacer y pensar, en la Fundación Para Lo Mejor.
Recientemente, Larry Richman publicó un blog muy interesante en ldswebguy.com acerca de la utilización de tecnologia para diseminar el evangelio. Escribió:
“Publicar tus pensamientos, testimonio y puntos de vista [...]

Mormon Web 2.0 Sites

Web 2.0 is commonly used to refer to Web sites that allow heavy participation and content from users. We’ve previously blogged about Scripture Tag, which allows users to “tag” scriptures with keywords, and Sustain’d, a Mormon version of Digg.
Stewart Foss has a post about the Top 10 Mormon Web 2.0 Sites, with room for [...]