Comments about ‘LDS Church starts blogging’

While I have nothing but respect for the LDS Church, this blogging idea is a mistake. More often than not, bloggs are used to promote immorality and substance abuse. The LDS Church cannot join a group that engages in this kind of activity without damaging its reputation.

Have you ever used the internet? On what basis do you make the claim that blogs are more often than not used for drugs and immorality. That is a ridiculous and completely misinformed claim. I think most blogs are probably used by families, corporations, and community organizations. The church supports families and is a community organization that is run as a corporation. That is like saying don't learn to play a musical instrument because they are used to convey immoral messages more often than not. Don't broadcast on TV because most shows contain cursing and questionable material...Please join us in the current millennium.

Do you even know what a blog is? Please post your definition here.

Interesting, John. Of the millions of blogs out there (including several of my own), you've read them all? I applaud the LDS Church for adding a strong voice to the many who are blogging truth and light, and arts and crafts and writing and how-to-be-a good-parent and preparedness and Christian living and on and on. Just don't read the bad blogs (I haven't come across one yet).

I couldn't disagree more. A blog is what you make it. I think a healthy blog is a great idea. Maybe it will set a new trend.

Offering something positive and refreshing is the perfect way to improve any blogging atmosphere.
Why must you always be so critical of the LDS church?

I don't know what sort of blogs you've been following, but blogs that encourage immorality and substance abuse are not normal.

Perhaps you should spend less time looking for that sort of thing and you'll end up finding it less?

Most of the blogs I've seen have been news commentaries, social commentaries, or personal diaries.

Oh, this is going to be fun.

With the internet, you find what you're looking for. For me, the internet is a fantastic resource, but an occasional waste of time. I wonder who's fault that is?

John Charity - You are confusing social networks with blogs. While MySpace is a toxic cyber-landfill for predators and losers, blogs are not necessarily so.

Too bad this new LDS Church blog won't permit comments, but I can understand why they won't. I'll still look forward to reading it.

If the blog does not provide factual comments and information from Church sources, it becomes a site for mis-information and confusion. Why would the LDS Church qualify their statement by saying that the blog does not contain church policy when it comes from the Public Affairs group of the LDS Church?

Great to see the Church using more technology.

Now, if we can only get the powers at be to spend some time on the STAKE WEBSITE and give us some attention to making it more of what WE need instead of what they THINK we need...

I hope they use phrases like "Heck" and "Oh my Gosh!"

Who is behind the church marketing ideas? First twitter and now a blog, hummmm does it seem as if the church is trying to be cool!? I guess in a cyber world exists a cyber church right? This is all to silly for me. Whats next a mormon reality show, pulheeez!

No, no, no. Everyone knows that all blogs are about technology and/or liberal politics. That has to be true, because mine is!

Doesn't a blog infer allowing open comments to be made? I saw nothing which suggests anyone can comment on anything on this supposed 'blog'.

Too true... In case anyone from LUWS is reading this -- start with a feature comparison of the stake calendar function vs. Google calendar. The ONLY feature the stake calendar has that Google doesn't do better is official approval from Salt Lake for use by Church units.

I don't know where the first post went BUT I agree 100% that the Church should consider it a priority to improve the local unit website program before it expands off into other areas.

They have great potiential for helping Wards communicate and inspire, but they lack some refinements which will make them more useable and easier to administer.

The calendar comment is a great example, repeating events on my Calendar Creator software are "easy" while those on LUWS are difficult at best, especially where there are to be exceptions to a repeating event (i.e. Sunday Meetings & General Conference)

Back to Blogs - the Church blog looks like it is aimed at external communication, while LUWS are intended as internal (private) websites which require a user name and password to use them. None-the-less, the same programming staff is involved and my priorities would lean towards getting the LUWS up to speed before branching out to new things like blogs.

Just my opinion and I am not a GA, who I am sure were involved it setting the priorities.

It's a good start for sure, but to me the very best blogs allow comments. I understand why they would be reticent to allow them, but I think that will make it more of a press release vehicle rather than an interactive blog.

I think the Church will find the "blog" a good means of communication for the purpose it will be used.

Does anyone recall that stated purpose the Church gave for using the "blog"?

It is to be used to "add context" to stories posted to the internet about the Church.

In other words, to correct the many negitivly biased rumors and stories on the internet about the Church.

How can anyone object to that?