Hashtags for LDS General Conference
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...
LDS General Conference Trivia
With LDS General Conference coming up this weekend, I thought it would be fun to post a few trivia questions. Question #1: When did the Church first begin interpreting general conference and what were the first languages? Answer: October 1961 in Dutch, German, Samoan,...
Get Live Updates from LDS Relief Society General Meeting
You can get live updates, quotes, highlight videos, and images from the Relief Society general meeting on Saturday, Sept. 28, at 6:00 p.m. by following the Church Twitter account @LDSChurch and the Church’s Facebook page. You can then retweet and share these...
BYUtv Provides Family-Friendly Entertainment
In January 2000, BYU launched its own TV channel, BYUtv, with a vision to provide uplifting and entertaining programming to help people see the good in the world. Today, BYUtv is carried by DirecTV, DISH Network, and almost 877 cable television providers nationwide....
BYU Education Week Talks About Church Resources
Last week, Fernando Camilo presented two series of classes at BYU’s Education Week. The first was called The Digital Church–Tools, Treasures, What’s New and You and was presented in four separate classes. In this series, Fernando discussed many of the resources...
The “Good List” of Movies
Steven K. Jones has compiled The Good List: Choosing and Using Movies from the Lord’s Side of the Line (PDF or Word) based on the following counsel from George Albert Smith: “All safety, all righteousness, all happiness are on the Lord’s side of the line . . . All...
250 Great Movies for Latter-day Families
Finding wholesome, uplifting family movies can be hard, especially when Hollywood’s values are so far from the Church’s. That’s why the Mormon Movie Guy Jonathan Decker wrote the book 250 Great Movies for Latter-day Families–to give you a broad...
Social Media Pages for LDS Leaders
The Church has created social media pages for members of the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve on Facebook and Google+. These pages will be maintained on their behalf by the Church and act as an official social media presence for each of them. See a list...How the LDS Church Uses Facebook
In the video below, Elisa Scharton, Jesse Stay, and Fernando Camilo discuss the features of Facebook and how the Church is using it. In this video, you can: Find posts about various content across LDS.org, Mormon Channel, and other Church websites. See Facebook pages...
Gospel Library Mobile App
An upgraded version of the Gospel Library mobile app is now available for iOS devices in Apple’s app store. The new version is called Gospel Library 3 and it is a separate app from the previous Gospel Library 2.5 app. The 3.0 upgrade is for iOS 6-compatible devices....Video: Ins and Outs of Social Media
In the video below, Elisa Scharton and Jared Covington discuss what Social Media is and ways we can use social media for good. They also talk about how the Church is using social media.
Graphics for Facebook, Google+, Blogs
In Sunday’s broadcast “The Work of Salvation,” Elder L. Tom Perry explained that missionaries will use “Mormon.org, Facebook, blogs, email, … text messages” and other platforms to reach out to people. “The Church must adapt to a changing world,” he...How the Church Uses Social Media
In the video below, Elisa Scharton, Shalyn Back, and Fernando Camilo talk about how the Church is using several of the Social Media platforms. Editor’s note (January 2, 2025): The Mormon Channel has been renamed Saints Channel.) Learn how to Share content from...
LDS E-books from the Church
In the USA, e-books made up nearly a quarter (22.55%) of trade publishers’ book sales in 2012. That’s up from 17% in 2011 and only 3% in 2009. The Church began publishing e-books back in 2011. Many people enjoy having books on a mobile device so they can...Follow on social media