by Larry Richman | May 29, 2014
LDS youth are invited to participate in a Face to Face Live Facebook event with David Archuleta, professional singer and recently returned LDS missionary. This interactive discussion will be moderated by Young Women general president Bonnie L. Oscarson and Young Men...
by Larry Richman | May 6, 2014
Now you can follow the words of LDS leaders through Twitter. Elder M. Russell Ballard now has an official Twitter account and he tweeted the following message after his Church Education System fireside on Sunday: “Thank you to all who tuned in to the devotional....
by Larry Richman | Apr 30, 2014
On April 5-6, millions of people from nearly every country in the world watched LDS General Conference in meetinghouses, on the Internet, with mobile apps, on TV, on radio, on Facebook, and on Youtube. Here is a list of all the ways people could watch conference. The...
by Larry Richman | Apr 29, 2014
Experts predict that in 2014, the number of active cell phones will exceed the number of people on the planet. That means that more people in the world will have access to mobile phones than to proper sanitation. The Gospel Library mobile app is available on nearly...
by Larry Richman | Apr 10, 2014
The Huffington Post has published an impressive article about the Church’s online missionary efforts. Read “Hook Of Mormon: Inside The Church’s Online-Only Missionary Army.” It’s not perfect, but it is very insightful. Here are two quotes...
by Larry Richman | Apr 2, 2014
Social media users often categorize their posts by using hashtags, which are words prefixed with a hash (#) sign. These subject tags can be searched on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, Flickr, and Tumblr to find information about a given...
by Larry Richman | Mar 13, 2014
Editor’s Note (April 2025): FamilySearch Indexing has been replaced by new technology. Learn about new opportunities to help improve historical records. The beta (preliminary) test of the FamilySearch Indexing mobile app has been completed and the app has been...
by Larry Richman | Feb 26, 2014
Andrew Young got into filmmaking as a sponsored skateboarder making skate movies. He studied animation at BYU and went on to work at XBox making video games and DreamWorks Animation making feature animated films. But he began to see things that concerned him about the...
by Larry Richman | Jan 24, 2014
The movie Joseph Smith: Prophet of the Restoration is now available for the first time on Hulu. This is the first movie from the Church to be offered on Hulu, where about 4 million people watch on-demand streaming video of TV shows, movies, web content, and other new...
by Larry Richman | Jan 23, 2014
Here is a summary of the top articles from LDS365.com during 2013, along with comments about why they were significant and will continue to be significant in 2014. General Conference LDS365.com provided many articles about each LDS general conference. Prior to each...
by Larry Richman | Dec 3, 2013
The Touchstorm Video Index list of the “YouTube 5,000” includes channels that have at least 43 million views. Touchstorm says only 74 of those 5,000 are brands, and it ranked the Mormon Channel #52 out of those 74 brands. The Mormon Channel...
by Larry Richman | Nov 9, 2013
A year ago, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir launched their YouTube channel at YouTube.com/MormonTabChoir. Since then, the channel has logged 5 million views. If you haven’t subscribed to the channel, then you’re missing out on great music videos, playlists,...
by Larry Richman | Nov 8, 2013
The Church has released a digital version of the November 2013 conference issue of the Ensign magazine for iPad users. (Note that this is a separate app from the Gospel Library mobile app. This app does not allow you to highlight and annotate using the Notes and...
by Larry Richman | Oct 25, 2013
The Gospel Library has a Notes and Journal function that lets you highlight and add notes to most of the content* you read in the Gospel Library, such as scriptures and manuals, on LDS.org or on the mobile app. You can also make journal entries in the same system....
by Larry Richman | Oct 20, 2013
Electronic messages, such as email, texts, tweets, and social media posts, are a great way to communicate–especially when you don’t need an immediate answer. You can send the message and then let the person read and respond when convenient. They are also helpful...