If You Think You’ve Got a Tough Life, There’s Always Someone With Worse
I’ve been meaning to share this for awhile. This is something the “Mormon Messages” Youtube channel for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints produced recently. Stephanie Nielson is a popular local Utah blogger who, if you want someone who truly understands life, you should follow. You can follow her blog at the NieNie […]
Read more...Changing the World Quite Literally Through Social Media
The rumor is out – I thought I’d make it official. This week I have started as the new Social Media Architect for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In summary, I am in charge of the architecture and integration of Social Technologies for the Church. I will be in charge of finding […]
Read more...Everything I Learned About Social Media I Learned From Professor Harold Hill
Coming out of High School I had a dream, like many Mormon boys of my age, to have good grades and get accepted to Brigham Young University. It was the “Notre Dame” of the Mormon faith, and having sat through many BYU football games with my family cheering them on and getting the nudge from […]
Read more...Reflection
We decided to take a little trip to go see the Christmas lights on Friday as a family at the Salt Lake City Mormon temple. I couldn’t resist the beauty of the lights on the water with the reflection in the background.
Read more...Hate
[swfobj width=”400″ height=”300″ src=”http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2184623&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowfullscreen=”true” allowscriptaccess=”always”]Salt Lake City No on Prop 8 Rally from Reid on Vimeo. I came across this video tonight after a protest they called a “hate rally” in downtown Salt Lake in front of the headquarters of my Church. You can see the temple, one of the places we worship, […]
Read more...LDS Church Ranks Top Among Churches on Alexa
An article on the website, LDSMediaTalk, pointed me to an interesting statistic today. It appears that the official website for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, LDS.org, ranks at the top of all organizational Church websites on the internet. In fact, at #3,095 and having peaked at near 2,500 at the beginning of […]
Read more...LDS Church Switches to MoveNetworks in Time for Annual Conference
Just in time for its Semi-Annual General Conference, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently switched all of its video for the conference to MoveNetworks. The Church will be streaming the conference live throughout the weekend using the service, and has started its broadcast with a stream of the Annual General Relief Society […]
Read more...The Mormon Church/Wikileaks Fiasco (or not-so-fiasco), A Mormon’s Perspective
Note that I’m not going to provide any links to the mentioned content here – you can go research yourself. Unlike Wikileaks, I respect others’ copyright. One thing you may notice on this blog is that while I rarely pipe in with religious thoughts and my own personal religious beliefs (although I used to quite […]
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