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 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 | 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...
by Larry Richman | Oct 8, 2013
Last weekend, millions of people from 216 countries used the Internet, satellite, and TV to watch, listen to, and read LDS General Conference in 95 languages. That translation and interpretation miracle made it possible for 97% of the Church’s 15 million members...
by Larry Richman | Oct 1, 2013
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 | Sep 30, 2013
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,...
by Larry Richman | Sep 26, 2013
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...
by Larry Richman | May 31, 2013
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...
by Larry Richman | Apr 9, 2013
This weekend Mormons and friends from around the world used the Internet to watch LDS General Conference and to connect with each other. Just how connected are they? Although they may not be the most connected people on the web, they have clearly embraced it as a...
by Larry Richman | Apr 4, 2013
If you share information about LDS General Conference, remember to use the hashtag #ldsconf on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, and Tumblr. Over the last few years, Twitter users have used the subject tag #ldsconf when tweeting information...
by Larry Richman | Jan 9, 2013
When interacting on social media, some people feel they can say or do anything. But I urge you to think twice about what you post or tweet to be sure you are acting responsibly. Don’t say or do something online that you wouldn’t say or do in the physical...
by Larry Richman | Oct 5, 2012
If you tweet about LDS General Conference, remember to use the hashtag #ldsconf. 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...
by Larry Richman | Sep 12, 2012
There are 340 million tweets every day on Twitter. So how do you make your tweets stand out from the rest? Diffbot analyzed 750,000 links posted to Twitter in order to answer 3 basic questions: What are we sharing? Which sites are we using? What languages are we...
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...
