by Larry Richman | Aug 24, 2012
New technologies give us more and more ways to further the work of the Lord. The following is the article “Sharing the Gospel through Social Media” by J. Aaron Black, New Era, September 2012. (See the PDF layout of this article.) How many times have you...
by Larry Richman | Jun 6, 2012
The following infographic from Lemon.ly shows the times of day when Twitter users are the most active. This may be useful information to know when the best time is to tweet. While there is no one-size-fits-all answer to the best time to tweet, at least this data lets...
by Larry Richman | Jan 31, 2012
This infographic is courtesy of Flowtown.
by Larry Richman | Oct 1, 2011
If you tweet about LDS General Conference, remember to use the hashtag #ldsconf. Learn about the #ldsconf hashtag. And remember the words of President Dieter F. Uchtdorf from the April 2011 General Conference: With so many social media resources and a multitude of...
by Larry Richman | May 13, 2011
The LDS Newsroom has just posted a blog “Church Has Strong Presence on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter,” which describes how the Church uses Facebook pages, YouTube channels, and Twitter accounts. Facebook The website AllFacebook.com lists nearly 3,000 pages...
by Larry Richman | Apr 2, 2011
If you tweet about LDS General Conference, remember to use the hashtag #ldsconf. Learn about Twitter. Learn about the #ldsconf hashtag.
by Larry Richman | Nov 11, 2010
I delivered the following today as part of a panel discussion titled “Mormon Media Studies: Across Web Time, Cyberspace, and Blogging Disciplines” in the symposium “Mormon Media Studies: Across Time, Space, and Disciplines,” at the BYU Conference Center in Provo,...
by Larry Richman | Oct 6, 2010
Over the last few years, Twitter users have used the subject tag #ldsconf when tweeting information about LDS General Conference. In Twitter language, these subject tags are called hashtags. (Learn more about the #ldsconf hashtag.) Joel Dehlin’s Weblog provides...
by Larry Richman | Oct 2, 2010
The official Church Twitter account for general conference is twitter.com/ldsgencon, which provides quotes from conference on a routine basis after the conference has concluded, but not during the conference. If you tweet about LDS general conference, use the...
by Larry Richman | Jun 7, 2010
Are you familiar with all the Church Twitter accounts? You can sign up to receive regular updates on various topics. See a list of all the Church Twitter accounts. Many Twitter users use the keywords #lds and #mormon to flag tweets about the Church and #ldsconf...
by Larry Richman | Jun 1, 2010
Social media is now the #1 activity on the Web. (Hitwise reports that Facebook has overtaken Google as the most popular Web site in the USA.) eMarketer estimates that nearly 60% of Internet users will use a social network at least once a month this year. And it’s more...
by Larry Richman | Apr 2, 2010
If you plan to tweet (post on Twitter) about this weekend’s LDS general conference, remember to use the hashtag #ldsconf.
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 Greg McMurdie | Jul 12, 2009
This morning Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) tweeted about A Day in the Life of a Twintern. The article immediately caught my eye since it’s a story about Pizza Hut’s first official “twintern” – Alexa Robinson. As a twintern – “an intern in charge of their companies’...
by Larry Richman | Apr 29, 2009
The microblogging service Twitter is exploding. Celebrities, politicians, entrepreneurs, business leaders, and everyday users are flocking to the service. In a cleaver marketing plan, Ashton Kutcher (Twitter name: aplusk) gathered more followers than any other Twitter...
