by Larry Richman | Oct 8, 2009
The English text for all the talks from the October 2009 LDS general conference is now online at generalconference.lds.org. (Just click on the title of the talk, or click the icon in the “Read” column.) For the last several conferences, we have shown...
by Larry Richman | Oct 6, 2009
An article in the Daily Herald talks about the tweets (posts on Twitter) that were “coming fast and furious” during the recent LDS general conference. “Even as thousands of members stuffed the LDS conference center in Salt Lake City and hundreds of...
by Larry Richman | Oct 4, 2009
In addition to the live broadcasts of the LDS general conference over the Church satellite system, on the Internet, and through radio and television, the Church also makes conference materials available after the broadcasts. See the document When Conference Materials...
by Larry Richman | Oct 1, 2009
The 179th Semiannual General Conference of the Church will be held in the Conference Center in Salt Lake City on Saturday and Sunday, October 3-4, 2009. The First Presidency has invited everyone to participate by attending, viewing, or listening via television, radio,...
by Larry Richman | Sep 29, 2009
Wondering how to get your children engaged in the upcoming general conference? The Friend magazine has published a General Conference Notebook of activities for children do before, during, and after general conference. You can access the notebook online and print it...
by Larry Richman | Apr 17, 2009
An 11-minute video of highlights of the April general conference is now online in English at the following locations: GeneralConference.lds.org Videos.lds.org Or just click the image below to watch it here. This video will be available in several other languages...
by Larry Richman | Apr 9, 2009
Last conference, we created a word cloud of the text from the conference, which shows the frequency of use of words. Connor Boyack has created a new wordle for the April 2009 general conference, shown below. He has also made a PDF version available. Also check out...
by Larry Richman | Apr 5, 2009
Beginning with the April 2009 General Conference, please note that the Church will discontinue the following products: English audiocassettes. ASL DVDs, since they are available online shortly after conference. A 16-language DVD set. Distribution of the Conference...
by Larry Richman | Apr 4, 2009
Unofficial, preliminary statistics show that a milestone occurred for the Saturday morning session of LDS General Conference: there were over 100,000 unique viewers across LDS.org, BYU.tv, and KSL.com for this morning’s session. Viewership is usually about 30%...
by Larry Richman | Apr 3, 2009
The 179th Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will convene in the Conference Center in Salt Lake City on Saturday and Sunday, April 4-5, 2009. The First Presidency invites everyone to participate by attending, viewing, or...
by Larry Richman | Oct 22, 2008
Jesse Stay at staynalive.com reported that the Church website LDS.org ranks at the top of all organizational Church websites on the Internet. It has a current Alexa rank of 3,095, and peaked at near 2,500 at the beginning of October. I know that Alexa ranking is not a...
by Larry Richman | Oct 20, 2008
Inputting the full text (except words like it, the, and and) of the recent General Conference into Wordle created the word cloud shown below. Frequency of use determines word size.
by Larry Richman | Oct 18, 2008
Video and audio podcasts of LDS General Conference are available on the Church feeds page (rss.lds.org) and also through iTunes.
by Larry Richman | Oct 9, 2008
English text of all the sessions from the recent LDS General Conference is now available online. Read more information about audio, video, and non-English text.
by Larry Richman | Oct 6, 2008
Video of all conference sessions (except the priesthood session) in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and American Sign Language was available online within hours of each session. These can be viewed using the new high-quality video player, which allows you to...