Optimism

Monday, January 18, 2010

Wikipedia

I never really sat down and thought about how amazing Wiki sights really are. Anyone can come online and add their knowledge to the Wiki world. It is just as easy for a PhD in physics to add information on the speed of light as it is for a 14 year old boy to add his expertise on Star Wars. I recently explored the website for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and found that information on the Relief Society was not up to date. During the General Relief Society Meeting in September 2009, Sister Julie B. Beck announced that the Family, Home and Enrichment Meetings would now be called simply Relief Society Meetings. The Wikipedia page did not reflect this change, so I edited the page and added the reference to Sister Beck's talk.

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Social Media

I feel like when I got back from serving an LDS mission, the entire social media world had exploded, and I was left clueless. Since then, I have successfully created my own blog, I log on to facebook occasionally, but I still don't completely know what it means to Twitter. I'll admit that in the past I have been skeptical of using social media, but I am coming to see how this tool can be used to share the gospel on a large scale. I'm here to learn!