Category Archives: mormons

Moving Forward From My "Mormon Moment"

As some of you may be aware, I have spent the last, almost 3 years, helping to grow Social Media in what some have perceived as very much a pioneering role for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. … Continue reading

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"Super Indexing Sunday" Breaks World Record With 2 Million Records Indexed in a Day

Facebook has quite a database with 500 million active users, and rumored total users in the billions.  There are few that can relate to the types of problems engineers and architects encounter with a database of that size.  FamilySearch.org is … Continue reading

Posted in Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Facebook, family, Family history, familysearch indexing, genealogy, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, indexing, mormons, social, super indexing sunday, superbowl, Technology | 2 Comments

"Be a Mormon!" – Making Things Go Viral

I’m sharing this partly because I’m excited Mormons were mentioned (I am in charge of much of the social technology integration and strategy for the LDS Church as one of the many things I do), but also because there’s some … Continue reading

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Who are the Mormons?

For those of you unaware, I am Mormon.  I try not to preach the religion topic too much on this site unless it has to do with Technology, but I did realize there wasn’t much on this blog talking about … Continue reading

Posted in book of mormon, faith, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, lds, lds church, mormon, mormons, Religion, social, the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints | 13 Comments

Hate

[swfobj width=”400″ height=”300″ src=”http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2184623&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowfullscreen=”true” allowscriptaccess=”always”]Salt Lake City No on Prop 8 Rally from Reid on Vimeo. I came across this video tonight after a protest they called a “hate rally” in downtown Salt Lake in front of the … Continue reading

Posted in anger, Changing the World, fear, gay, hate, homosexual, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, lds, mormons, proposition 8, Religion, the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints | 1 Comment

Proposition 8 – It’s Not Exactly Cut and Dry

I’ve been standing back for awhile listening to the various sides in the blogosphere on Proposition 8 in California. The proposition is in response to a Judge overturning proposition 22, a law which attempted to define marriage being between a … Continue reading

Posted in election 2008, gay, lds, lesbian, mormons, Politics, proposition 8, Religion, vote | 36 Comments

LDS Church Ranks Top Among Churches on Alexa

An article on the website, LDSMediaTalk, pointed me to an interesting statistic today. It appears that the official website for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, LDS.org, ranks at the top of all organizational Church websites on the … Continue reading

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