This page is formatted for printing
blog template

General Conference and Social Media

This is part of an email I sent out with our ward calendar as a general conference report. I'm copying it here because of the social networking links.

    I'm going to take a bit of liberty and make a General Conference report here -- not on the talks -- but on how the Church is using technology to help us use the messages from our prophets and leaders.

    So if you're busy, stop reading here 🙂

    General Conference videos of each talk were online within an hour of being given at the Church's Official YouTube Channel, Mormon Messages. You can use these talks in your FHE lesson, share them with a friend, or embed them on your blog or website. If you don't have cable or satellite, the Mormon Messages channel is a way for you to see conference almost immediately after the broadcast, sans MoTab. The link to Mormon Messages is here:
    http://www.youtube.com/user/MormonMessages

    The Church has also debuted a new General Conference page here that includes GREATLY improved search capabilities, limited social networking options, conference games for kids, and audio/video. It has the information from the most recent YW and RS broadcasts as well.
    https://beta.lds.org/general-conference?locale=eng

    and the quicklink to the children's games is
    http://conferencegames.lds.org/

    Most of you are aware that you can get conference streamed to you in many different languages at
    http://conference.lds.org/

    English text versions of the talks should go live the Thursday after Conference (today) at LDS.org, and probably at the new beta site, too.

    This blog by Larry Richman, a director of the Church's media and publishing, talks in more depth about this topic:
    http://ldsmediatalk.com/2010/04/05/when-general-conference-materials-wil...

    If you're at work during Conference, you may not be able to listen to conference as it happens. However, you can follow conference updates using Twitter. I was among a few dozen Latter-day saints tweeting quotes from conference as they happened. Combining those tweets with several hundred other members who also posted updates or impressions, several thousand tweets went out during each session. In fact, Conference-related tweets outnumbered iPad tweets on Saturday during both sessions of General Conference! When GAs mentioned the new family search site, http://new.familysearch.org/, that site actually crashed due to members checking it out and non-members being directed there through Tweets. At one point General Conference was one of the top 10 tweeted topics worldwide! You can do some social networking missionary work with your tweets by adding the hashtag #ldsconf to your tweets next year.

    Facebook users can follow the Church's official pages here:
    http://www.facebook.com/pages/Salt-Lake-City-UT/The-Church-of-Jesus-Chri...

    http://www.facebook.com/pages/Salt-Lake-City-UT/The-Church-of-Jesus-Chri...

    You can also follow these folks on Twitter for LDS conference related tweets:
    @mormonmessages (official)
    @ldsconf (not official)

Post Date: April 7, 2010
Author: Jenny Smith

MEET THE AUTHOR:

Jenny Smith
Jenny Smith is a designer who started blogging in 2004 to share lesson and activity ideas with members of her home branch Mississippi. Her collection has grown, and she now single-handedly manages the world's largest collection of free lesson help for LDS teachers with faceted search. Her library includes teaching techniques, object lessons, mini lessons, handouts, visual aids, and doctrinal mastery games categorized by scripture reference and gospel topic. Jenny loves tomatoes, Star Trek, and her family -- not necessarily in that order.
ALL POSTS BY THIS AUTHOR
Jenny Smith is a designer, blogger, and tomato enthusiast who lives in Virginia on a 350+ acre farm with her husband and one very grouchy cat.
Jenny Smith signature

Recent Posts

Check out some of the awesome stuff being shared on No Boring Lessons:
May 18, 2021
Answering questions about Race and Priesthood Ban

After seven years operating the Seminary Teachers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Facebook group, I've seen it all. Too many of us are giving answers about race and priesthood intended to preserve faith that do not convey the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth sohelpmegod. We know lot […]

Read More
March 8, 2021
Filling your day

What you need: FULL clear glass of water Lots and lots of paper clips GENTLY and SLOWLY place paper clip by paper clip in the very full glass of water. Have your students watch as the glass gets fuller and fuller but never topples over and spills everywhere. Relate how this can sometimes be like […]

Read More
March 2, 2021
Seminary Scramble

From Jonna C - Print these cards on one side of a sheet of cardstock, so that the answers can't be seen through the back of the cards. SEMINARY SCRAMBLE RULES SET-UP 1- Set up your classroom with enough small tables (classroom tables work great), and 3-4 chairs at each table, to divide your class […]

Read More
usertagprintchevron-downcalendar-oenvelopemenu-circlecross-circle linkedin facebook pinterest youtube rss twitter instagram facebook-blank rss-blank linkedin-blank pinterest youtube twitter instagram