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Gideon Burton

LDS International Video Contest - 2 views

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crowdsourcing video user-generated content create

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  • Gideon Burton on 22 Sep 10
     
    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.
Greg Williams

LDS.org - Ensign Article - Focus and Priorities - 0 views

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lds priorities information

shared by Greg Williams on 31 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • principle of accountability also applies to the spiritual resources conferred in the teachings we have been given and to the precious hours and days allotted to each of us during our time in mortality.
  • The significance of our increased discretionary time has been magnified many times by modern data-retrieval technology. For good or for evil, devices like the Internet and the compact disc have put at our fingertips an incredible inventory of information, insights, and images. Along with fast food, we have fast communications and fast facts. The effect of these resources on some of us seems to fulfill the prophet Daniel’s prophecy that in the last days “knowledge shall be increased” and “many shall run to and fro”
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  • “Do you think we need a bigger truck?”
  • our biggest need is a clearer focus on how we should value and use what we already have.
  • But to what purpose?
  • “knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word,” in which “wisdom” is “lost in knowledge” and “knowledge” is “lost in information”
  • We have thousands of times more available information than Thomas Jefferson or Abraham Lincoln. Yet which of us would think ourselves a thousand times more educated or more serviceable to our fellowmen than they?
  • I could never complete my assigned task within the available time unless I focused my research in the beginning and stopped that research soon enough to have time to analyze my findings and compose my conclusions.
  • we must begin with focus or we are likely to become like those in the well-known prophecy about people in the last days—“ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth” (2 Tim. 3:7).
  • But a bale of handouts can detract from our attempt to teach gospel principles with clarity and testimony.
  • Stacks of supplementary material can impoverish rather than enrich, because they can blur students’ focus on the assigned principles and draw them away from prayerfully seeking to apply those principles in their own lives.
  • Each of us should be careful that the current flood of information does not occupy our time so completely that we cannot focus on and hear and heed the still, small voice that is available to guide each of us with our own challenges today.
  • Our priorities determine what we seek in life.
  • “a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth”
  • Our priorities are most visible in how we use our time.
  • Good choices are especially important in our family life. For example, how do family members spend their free time together? Time together is necessary but not sufficient.
  • I believe many of us are overnourished on entertainment junk food and undernourished on the bread of life.
  • Greg Williams on 31 Oct 12
     
    Available information wisely used is far more valuable than multiplied information allowed to lie fallow.
Katherine Chipman

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

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lds civility

shared by Katherine Chipman on 21 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Speaking of civility on a personal level, Elder Robert D. Hales of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles taught Latter-day Saints how to respond to criticism: “Some people mistakenly think responses such as silence, meekness, forgiveness, and bearing humble testimony are passive or weak. But, to ‘love [our] enemies, bless them that curse [us], do good to them that hate [us], and pray for them which despitefully use [us], and persecute [us]’ (Matthew 5:44) takes faith, strength, and, most of all, Christian courage.”
Gideon Burton

Things as They Really Are - Ensign June 2010 - ensign - 0 views

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Bednar LDS internet danger reality

shared by Gideon Burton on 03 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Gideon Burton on 03 Sep 12
     
    A key talk about the digital realm from the point of view of an LDS apostle.
Chase McCloskey

New LDS Website - 1 views

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lds new media

shared by Chase McCloskey on 24 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Chase McCloskey on 24 Sep 10
     
    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
Braquel Burnett

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

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technology church LDS

shared by Braquel Burnett on 27 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • 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
  • Braquel Burnett on 27 Oct 10
     
    Church history and technology
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.
  • Kristen Nicole Cardon on 21 Sep 10
     
    A great talk--applicable to the focus of our class!
Andrew DeWitt

Introduction to Sharing the Gospel Online - 1 views

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introduction sharing mormon missionary lds online gospel

shared by Andrew DeWitt on 23 Sep 10 - No Cached
    • Kristi Koerner
      Kristi Koerner on 23 Sep 10
       
      In Devotional this week, didn't Gordon Smith quote a prophet saying that the internet was truly invented to share the gospel?
  • Gideon Burton on 23 Sep 10
     
    The LDS Church follows other religious groups in using online and social media for preaching and teaching. 
  • Andrew DeWitt on 22 Nov 10
     
    The Official Church website on the topic of sharing the gospel online!
Sarah Wills

LDS.org - Liahona Article - Two Principles for Any Economy - 0 views

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lds digiciv knowledge

shared by Sarah Wills on 23 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Sarah Wills on 23 Sep 10
     
    Thought it was appropriate with our discussion of our pursuit of knowledge.
Andrew DeWitt

BYUtv - That Promised Day - 1 views

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lds scriptures open opensource history standard works

shared by Andrew DeWitt on 05 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Andrew DeWitt on 05 Oct 10
     
    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.
Braquel Burnett

LDS.org - Friend Article - Bringing the Book of Mormon to Life - 0 views

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lds

shared by Braquel Burnett on 27 Oct 10 - No Cached
    • Braquel Burnett
      Braquel Burnett on 27 Oct 10
       
      What a cool idea. It can be a great way to learn the gospel and to bear your testimony.
  • You Can Do It Too!
  • It’s a gray, drizzly Saturday morning, but the children of the Danbury Connecticut Ward aren’t in their pajamas watching cartoons or playing video games. They’re busy making videos of their own. And their videos will help thousands of people learn about the Book of Mormon! It all started when their bishop had a great idea. Bishop Summerhays is a media expert who teaches children from many countries how to use technology to create positive messages. Why not teach the children in his ward the same thing? Now the children, joined by children from the Newtown Ward, are sitting at five long tables in the Primary room. Stacks of construction paper and poster board, pens, and scissors are on the tables. Each group will be making an animated video of a different Book of Mormon story:
Danny Patterson

Law of Consecration vs Communism - 1 views

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Communism Law of Consecration

shared by Danny Patterson on 03 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Danny Patterson on 03 Oct 10
     
    This is an excellent, concise explanation of the differences between LDS beliefs on communism vs the Law of Consecration which we believe will ultimately govern our society when Christ comes back to the earth.
James Wilcox

The NEW LDS.org - 1 views

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digiciv mormon web2.0

shared by James Wilcox on 26 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • James Wilcox on 26 Oct 10
     
    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.
  • Trevor Cox on 26 Oct 10
     
    So cool! I love this. We just went over all this in church. You gotta love having the best calling!
Katherine Chipman

LDS.org - The Family:A Proclamation to the World - 0 views

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family

shared by Katherine Chipman on 05 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Katherine Chipman on 05 Oct 10
     
    In a world where the definitions, functions, and structure of families seems to be constantly changing, we can find hope and direction in the inspired words of the Prophets and Apostles of God.
Katherine Chipman

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

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lds technology

shared by Katherine Chipman on 21 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • 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,
  • HomeThe Newsroom BlogMultimediaPhotosVideoAudio
  • 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.
Jeffrey Whitlock

No definitive LDS stance on evolution, study finds | Deseret News - 0 views

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shared by Jeffrey Whitlock on 18 Oct 10 - No Cached
    • Jeffrey Whitlock
      Jeffrey Whitlock on 18 Oct 10
       
      This is a fascinating article on the Church's view on evolution. It is interesting that in spite of the Church's official position, many people throughout the Church seem to teach anti-evolution "doctrine" as if it was the Church's official stance.
    • Jake Corkin
      Jake Corkin on 18 Oct 10
       
      have you ever read the "origin of man" by the First presidency in 1909? it pretty much gives a definitive stance on the subject. it is pretty interesting stuff.
Braquel Burnett

President Monson Breaks Ground for Rome Italy Temple - LDS Newsroom - 1 views

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shared by Braquel Burnett on 27 Oct 10 - No Cached
    • Braquel Burnett
      Braquel Burnett on 27 Oct 10
       
      awesome example of the use of digital media in the church. seeing examples of what the temple in Rome is going to look like brings more excitement and inspiration about its construction.
Chase McCloskey

Mormom Channel - 0 views

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Mormonism media LDS

shared by Chase McCloskey on 08 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Chase McCloskey on 08 Nov 10
     
    Here's another example of Mormonism using modern media.
Megan Stern

LDS.org - Ensign Article - Little Children - 0 views

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digiciv psychology

shared by Megan Stern on 04 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • True doctrine, understood, changes attitudes and behavior. The study of the doctrines of the gospel will improve behavior quicker than a study of behavior will improve behavior. Preoccupation with unworthy behavior can lead to unworthy behavior. That is why we stress so forcefully the study of the doctrines of the gospel. The laws of God on marriage, birth, and nurturing of little children may seem rigid, but they are very practical.
  • Megan Stern on 04 Nov 10
     
    A little late, but I wanted to highlight President Packer's quote about the study of behavior in relation to the gospel.
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