Monthly Archives: December 2006

Escrever um Mormon Blog

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.O que é un blog ? Blog é uma abreviação [...]

Scrivere un Blog

Che cos’ è un blog ? Blog è l’abbreviazione di web log, un sito web dove vengono pubblicate notizie, informazioni, [...]

Three WordPress plugins for Mormon bloggers

Many blogs around the Bloggernacle are powered by WordPress. For example, LDS News Watch, LDS Web Guy, LDS CIO, and Ask Gramps (and this blog!) all run on WordPress software.
WordPress can be customized through a variety of “plugins”. Here are three WordPress plugins that might be helpful to Mormon bloggers:

LDS Linker — When you [...]

Good things you can do on the Internet

My friend Brian recently spoke in church about positive things you can do on the Internet. The talk was aimed at “regular” church members that happen to use the Internet — including parents and children — not Internet experts. There’s something for everyone. Here are his notes:

Share your talents online with photos, music and [...]

Aí vem de novo coisa boa do Brasil…

Esta e’ uma reportagem muito boa que foi publicada pelo journal o Estado de S. Paulo, un journal bem importante no Brazil. O título já diz muito: País tem quase 1 milhão de mórmons e Igreja não pára de crescer. Parabens para a journalista, Adriana Dias Lopes, ela falou simples, claro, e bem.
Vejam o que [...]

Reportagem da SBT no Brasil sobre os Mormons

Este video e’ uma reportagem feita pela SBT acerca da Igreja de Jesus Cristo dos Santos dos Últimos Dias (os Mormons).
Obviamente, como todas as reportagens feitas por pessoas que não conhecem profundamente a Igreja, há algumas imperfeições e algumas coisas que não são explicadas como deveriam, mas eu diria que eles fizeram uma boa reportagem [...]

New hires at the Church

The LDS church recently hired two talented people to join its top-notch technology staff:

Joel Dehlin is the new Chief Information Officer (CIO). He worked previously at Microsoft, Novell, and Arthur Andersen and will now head up the Church’s technology efforts. Find his new blog at LDSCIO.org. For more information, read: I Work [...]

Giving background and context

A few weeks ago I left the following comment on MormonMentality.org in response to a post about the “do’s and don’ts of LDS blogging”:

I think there’s a natural tendency among Mormon blogs (and the blogosphere in general) toward marginal topics, i.e. topics that are new or exciting or controversial. This means new readers don’t get [...]