LDS General Conference may be one of the best ways to introduce your friends to the Church. This article provides references to help you explain to others what general conference is all about and to invite them to watch general conference.
What is LDS General Conference?
- Read the article about General Conference from the Church’s Newsroom.
- Learn about today’s prophets and apostles.
- Read Organization of the Church on LDS.org.
Invite Others to Watch General Conference
- Invite people to go with you to your meetinghouse to watch conference. Monday’s article “How to Access LDS General Conference” described the various ways that you can watch general conference. The sessions on Sunday are usually especially good for those who don’t know much about our faith.
- Tell people how they can access conference in their homes on radio, Internet, broadcast TV, cable TV, and Roku Internet TV (again, see Monday’s post “How to Access LDS General Conference“).
- Share an introductory YouTube video with your friends through social networking sites. The link to the video is http://youtu.be/atvD5vVwrvQ
- Embed the conference stream in your blog or website. Go to the video on Facebook and click the Embed button in the upper right of the video to get the code.
- Share your favorite quotes and stories from General Conference through social networks and blogs.
- Share the General Conference event on Facebook.
- Click the Share and Like buttons on your favorite talks on LDS.org.
- Post this infographic about general conference on Facebook, Google+, your blog, or your website, or send the link to your friends by email.
- Put a banner or widget on your website or blog. (See the “Invite Others” page on the general conference page of LDS.org or get the banners and widgets from the Church’s Facebook page.)
- Share conference by using conference images as your Facebook or Google+ cover photo.
What other ways can you think of to share General Conference with others?
Did you use any of these last conference? Any feedback for us?
I need specific’s on how to make these images get to my FB page.
Becky,
Here are the instructions for updating the cover image on Facebook:
1. I have emailed you the two images available in the size for a Facebook cover image. Choose which one you like and save it to your computer. (You could also download them at https://www.facebook.com/LDS/app_138142539683948 by click the name under each one, then when the image appears, right-click and save them to your computer.)
2. Go to your own Facebook page by clicking on your name or picture somewhere on any page.
3. Point your mouse at the big image at the top of your page, and you’ll see the pop-up words Change Cover. Click it.
4. Choose Upload Photo, and select the photo you saved in step 1.
Now here are the instructions if you just want a general conference image in one of your Facebook posts:
1. I have emailed you two other images that are a good size for a post on Facebook. Choose which one you like and save it to your computer. (You could also download them at https://www.facebook.com/LDS/app_138142539683948 by right-clicking the image you like and saving it to your computer.)
2. Make a post like you normally would, and click Photo, then Upload Photos and select the photo you saved on your computer.
3. Make any comments in the text area, then click the Post button.
Have fun sharing general conference with others!