Upgraded LDS Maps Site
Back in August, I wrote about the new LDS Maps site on LDS.org, previously known as the Meetinghouse Locator. LDS Maps has now been released in the following languages: Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean,...
Church Newsroom Widgets
The Church’s Newsroom site has just launched widgets that you can embed in your blog or Web site.Same-sex Marriage and the Church
About a month ago, I blogged about Proposition 8 and same-sex marriage. In that, and subsequent blogs, I discussed the use of blogs, Web sites, and video to communicate the issues and inform. This has been interesting to watch in a debate that has been so...Interview With the Church Newsroom
The Church Newsroom was recently interviewed by Times and Seasons and it was published in two parts. Part one covers questions about the origin and scope of the LDS Church Newsroom. Part two addresses questions about where the Newsroom is headed.
Online Journaling
I’ve been feeling lately that I really need to get back into the habit of journaling. Since I’ve been called as a bishop, it seems there is never enough time to do all I need to do, let alone keep a diary of it. However, I really feel I need to record some...What is the Internet?
Check out this simple Web site that explains how the Internet works.
Growth of the Internet
The growth of the World Wide Web has been phenomenal. Nearly 1.5 billion people around the world use the Internet. As of June 2008, there were over 63 billion pages in the publicly-indexed Web. Google Search has discovered one trillion unique URLs. Most Web pages are...LDS.org Ranks Highest of All Religious Organization Sites
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...
To Blog or Not to Blog?
There has been much said recently about members of the Church using the Internet to share the gospel. (see Sharing the Gospel Using the Internet By Elder M. Russell Ballard) Elder Ballard and Church Public Affairs have encouraged members to create blogs, leave...
New Meetinghouse Locator on LDS.org
LDS.org provides a simple program that let you enter an address anywhere in the world and find the nearest LDS meetinghouse (place of worship). We are pleased to announce an upgrade to this program, which can be accessed beginning today through many links on LDS.org...What is RSS?
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is used to distribute regularly-updated Internet content (such as news headlines, blogs, and wikis). People subscribe for free to RSS feeds to automatically receive content from a Web site or service without having to constantly visit a...
Church’s Most Popular Country Web Sites
Brazil is the Church’s most popular country Web site, with 250,000 visitors a year. Brazil is followed by Germany, which ranks very high, especially considering the relative number of members in that country. The top 12 country sites in 2007, in terms of unique...
Church Country Site for French Polynesia
On June 16, 2004, the New Zealand/Pacific Islands area launched an English site for all the countries in the area. On August 4, 2008 they lauched a site in French specifically for Tahiti. The Church has 64 country sites with 8 more under construction. You can see a...What Are Social Networks?
Online social networks are communities of people who share common interests and activities. Social networking sites provide the ability to create a personal profile and various ways to interact with other people, such as messaging, e-mail, video, text or voice chat,...
