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Braquel Burnett

Technology Used by Church From Early Years - LDS Newsroom - 0 views

  • Grant’s wife Augusta noted at the time, “I am glad that I live in this age when every day — almost every hour — brings us some new inventions.”
  • Sputnik, the first Earth-orbiting satellite launched by Russia in 1957, inspired the development of satellite networks positioned well above the earth. The first United States broadcast over Telstar 1 in 1962 featured clips from a baseball game in Chicago, a news conference by President John F. Kennedy and a concert from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. 
  • “We are not breathlessly smitten by the Internet, nor are we in any way underestimating its possibilities,” said Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, Church leader, in a 1997 speech. “We are just moving steadily, and we think wisely, to use it along with every other way we know to communicate with each other.” 
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  • 1867 installation of a 500-mile telegraph line
  • Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876
  • 1896 development of the wireless telegraph
  • first broadcast in Pittsburgh in 1920
  • Heber J. Grant launched radio station KZN in 1922
  • radio station in 1925, changing the call letters to KSL.
  • July 1929, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
  • Closed circuit television broadcasts of conference began in 1948
  • first general broadcast occurred in October 1949
  • Bonneville Communications, an advertising arm of the Church, developed, in the early 1970s
  • By 2006, President Gordon B. Hinckley noted that Church-owned satellite dishes numbered 6,066 in 83 countries
  • 1954, general-purpose computers and a punch-card system were implemented in Church business functions.
  • LDS.org, which debuted in 1996
  • 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, another site, Mormon.org
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    Church history and technology
Andrew DeWitt

Introduction to Sharing the Gospel Online - 1 views

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      In Devotional this week, didn't Gordon Smith quote a prophet saying that the internet was truly invented to share the gospel?
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    The LDS Church follows other religious groups in using online and social media for preaching and teaching. 
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    The Official Church website on the topic of sharing the gospel online!
Gideon Burton

LDS International Video Contest - 2 views

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    The LDS church is member sourcing their new public relations by inviting people to submit their own "Mormon Message" video. The church is inviting people to make use of official LDS media (musical and video recordings, etc.) within their individual creations.
Andrew DeWitt

BYUtv - That Promised Day - 1 views

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    Fascinating and spiritual history of our current version of the LDS Scriptures. There were many many people who worked on the project. The Church got a lot of public input on the making of these scriptures. You might say they are "open source", or that they were made with an agile process. Even the Bible Dictionary was taken from Cambridge University and they let the Church take their Bible Dictionary and make amendments to it.
James Wilcox

The NEW LDS.org - 1 views

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    I have had a lot of fun with this. There is a new ward callendar and directory that are far easier to use and add to then the old calendars and are far more efficent. Also, as a Ward Executive Secretary it allows me to get on to a large chunk of the MLS enabling me to get most of my work done without having to kick the Ward Clerk off of the churches computers.
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    So cool! I love this. We just went over all this in church. You gotta love having the best calling!
Greg Williams

About | Working Notes - 0 views

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    Met this guy at church today
Sean Watson

Robert Hooke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • Jump to: navigation, search Robert Hooke Portrait of Hooke, 2004. Born 18 July 1635Freshwater, Isle of Wight, England Died 3 March 1703 (aged 67)London, England Fields Physics and chemistry Institutions Oxford University Alma mater Christ Church, Oxford Academic advisors Robert Boyle Known for Hooke's LawMicroscopyapplied the word 'cell' Influences Richard Busby Contents [hide] 1 Life and works 1.1 Early life 1.2 Oxford 1.3 The Watch Balance Spring 1.4 Royal Society 2 Personality and disputes 3 Hooke the scientist 3.1 Mechanics 3.2 Gravitation 3.3 Microscopy 3.4 Astronomy 4 Hooke the architect 5 Likenesses 6 Commemorations 7 See also 8 References 9 Further reading 10 External links //
  • Hooke is known for his law of elasticity (Hooke's law), his book, Micrographia, and for first applying the word "cell" to describe the basic unit of life
  • Micrographia
Kevin Watson

Mormon Beliefs and Misconceptions - 2 views

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    Good Example of a Blog done by a member of the church. They probably took Elder Ballard's advice to heart ;)
Kevin Watson

Our People | Mormon.org - 0 views

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    Love these videos!! I love how the church is promoting more of the personal side of the life of a Mormon.
James Wilcox

Financial Times: The rise of a new generation of Mormons | Mormon Times - 0 views

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    This is one of the best outside articles I have ever read about the church.
Katherine Chipman

Newsroom - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - 0 views

  • Today we have a modern equivalent of the printing press in the Internet and all that it means. The Internet allows everyone to be a publisher, to have their voice heard,
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  • New Media is facilitating a world-wide conversation on almost every subject including religion, and nearly everyone can participate. This modern equivalent of the printing press is not reserved only for the elite.
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  • may I ask that you join the conversation by participating on the Internet, particularly the New Media, to share the gospel and to explain in simple, clear terms the message of the Restoration
  • we have a major responsibility as Latter-day Saints to define ourselves, instead of letting others define us
  • Every disciple of Christ will be most effective, and do the most good by adopting a demeanor worthy of a follower of the Savior of the world.
  • This is your world, the world of the future, with inventions undreamed of that will come in your lifetime as they have in mine. How will you use these marvelous inventions? More to the point, how will you use them to further the work of the Lord?
  • The printing press and other media have allowed us to take the Lord’s message to almost every corner of the earth.
  • Make sure that the choices you make in the use of new media are choices that expand your mind, increase your opportunities, and feed your soul.
Katherine Chipman

Welcome to FamilySearch - 0 views

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    New.FamilySearch.org helps members of the church around the world organize and find information about their ancestors and ensure that their temple work is done. This is an example of what Elder Ballard said. He said, "The Lord over the centuries has had a hand in inspiring people to invent tools that facilitate the spreading of the gospel. The Church has adopted and embraced those tools, including print, broadcast media, and now the Internet."
David Potter

Documentaries on Mormons - 1 views

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    This is site that contains documentaries on the life of members of the Church. This was contest put on by BYU. I feel like this is the precursor to the churches campaign "I am a Mormon." There are some great films here.
Chase McCloskey

New LDS Website - 1 views

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    The Church is also working to stay caught up in all the digital advancements we've had over the last few years. The site still isn't completely finished but once it is it will replace the current lds.org
Andrew DeWitt

LDS.org - Ensign Article - Things as They Really Are - 2 views

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  • I raise an apostolic voice of warning about the potentially stifling, suffocating, suppressing, and constraining impact of some kinds of cyberspace interactions and experiences upon our souls. The concerns I raise are not new; they apply equally to other types of media, such as television, movies, and music. But in a cyber world, these challenges are more pervasive and intense. I plead with you to beware of the sense-dulling and spiritually destructive influence of cyberspace technologies that are used to produce high fidelity and that promote degrading and evil purposes.
  • Brothers and sisters, please understand. I am not suggesting all technology is inherently bad; it is not. Nor am I saying we should not use its many capabilities in appropriate ways to learn, to communicate, to lift and brighten lives, and to build and strengthen the Church; of course we should. But I am raising a warning voice that we should not squander and damage authentic relationships by obsessing over contrived ones.
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    A great talk--applicable to the focus of our class!
Kristen Nicole Cardon

On the origin of Darwin | Church of England - 1 views

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    Some information about Darwin's background and some public reaction to his Origin of Species
Jeffrey Chen

Mormon Church Enters California Gay Marriage Fight - 0 views

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    An article sharing on how Mormon's fought against gay marriage through many means.
Jeffrey Chen

Mormon media in the 20th century - 1 views

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    Check this out. The Church really embraces media as a tool for good!
Jake Corkin

"The Seven Deadly Heresies" by Bruce R. McConkie - 0 views

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    here is a speech given by Bruce R. McConkie at BYU in 1980. i dont know if this is doctrine or what but it is pretty powerful. pay attention to heresy number 2.
Jake Corkin

The Origin of Man - 0 views

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    The official declaration of the origins of man and our creation as given by the First Presidency in 1909. very interesting stuff.
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