E-mail vs. Texting
83% of U.S. college students send and receive e-mail daily. However, 37% of students say texting is their favorite electronic way to communicate. 26% prefer 2-mail.How Men and Women Use the Internet
I was recently looking at some research that discussed how men and women use the Internet. According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project report, How Women and Men Use the Internet, men and women use the Internet equally to do many activities, but there are...
Know Your Audience
I’ve been thinking about the audience of this blog. Whether you are a public speaker, author, or Web site developer, it’s a good idea to know your audience. I know our intended audience is LDS parents and youth, but without some research, I don’t...
Who Plays Video Games?
According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, more than half of US adults play video games, and about 20% play every day or almost every day. 81% of US adults ages 18-29 said they are video gamers, while only 23% of respondents 65 and older said the same....
Sitemap
Adding an XML Sitemap to your blog is one way to ensure your blog is getting indexed by all the major search engines. And unless the content in your blog is getting indexed by an engine like Google, Yahoo!, Live Search, Ask, and others, it won’t be found by...Sign Language on Mobile Phones
A group of researchers have devised a method which allows people to communicate over a 2G cell phone network using Sign Language. This is a pretty big step for deaf people, because text messaging is a poor substitute for the expressiveness of Sign Language, and for...Over 1.2 Million Archives of October 08 Conference were Downloaded in October
Web users, in general, want fresh content, therefore it is typically the new sites or new postings on the site that get the most traffic. LDS.org is no different and, not surprisingly, traffic spikes around General Conference time as members are hungry to feast upon...
Kids and Teens are Way Connected
eMarketer estimates that 82% of US teens (ages 12-17) and 43.5% of children (ages 3-11) will use the Internet on a monthly basis in 2009. About 19% of active Internet users in July 2008 were under age 18. (Source: Nielsen Online) 71% of US teens have a mobile phone....
Cell Phones and Mobile Internet Access
In late 2007, Reuters reported that “worldwide mobile telephone subscriptions reached 3.3 billion.” This fact has generated a lot of discussion here at the Church on its implications about how cell phones could be used to keep members and church leaders connected and...Have You Got Your OpenID Yet?
In case you missed it, a couple weeks ago Microsoft and Google announced support for OpenID. If you have a card, a spreadsheet, or password manager that contains your login information for all the web sites you regularly visit, then you might want to check out OpenID....What is Digg?
Digg is a place for people to discover and share the best content from anywhere on the Web. You can submit articles and other Digg users vote them up or down. That way, the articles on the main page are those that the community finds to be the most interesting or...Help Children Navigate the Internet
The October 25, 2008 edition of the Church News contained a great article that warns parents of the risks of allowing children to navigate the Internet alone. Online games today have real-life imagery, sound, and graphics, and allow youth to play with unknown people...
Wikipedia and the Cognitive Surplus
I’d like to expand on a blog post from earlier this year by Larry Richman called What is a Wiki? As Larry explains, the nature of a wiki is to enable just about anyone to contribute an article or modify content. If you didn’t realize this and want to see...Online Security Basics for You and Your Computer
Neal Francom wrote a great article on LDSTech about Online Security Basics for You and Your Computer. He suggests best practices to keep you, your family, your coworkers, and your computer safer in the online world. His suggestions: Avoid infection. Update your...Follow on social media