The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

I attended a lecture last Friday by a researcher from IBM showing off many-eyes.com, a website with powerful tools to visualize many different types of data, both numbers and text. She demonstrated lots of different data sets, one of which was from the Bible. I immediately wondered if someone had do...

Attached is a screenshot of the advertisement on ghosttowns.com. It's a different size ad than the one on yahoo mail.

-Jeff

Just saw another mormon.org advertisement over at www.ghosttowns.com

I noticed an advertisement for mormon.org while checking my yahoo mail today. Here's a screen grab: http://www.jeffandmichelleboyd.com/ldsadvert.jpg Awesome! The Church has always used technology to spread the Gospel (printed tracts, radio, TV, etc.), so it's only natural that they use the web. This...

For anyone interested, the letter calling for the closure of locally-hosted websites from the presiding bishopric came on the Ides of March, 2001. It includes the following explanation: "As the church grows, it is important that information presented to the world be accurate and dignified and that i...

Thanks everyone for your input. I wasn't aware of the security issues with locally-hosted websites. I find all this very interesting. Is there anyone who works at the church who might know when the official LUWS came out of beta testing? Or even how long beta testing was done? The major problem with...

When did the official local church unit websites go online? What were some of the motivations behind discouraging local units from hosting their own sites? I remember signing up for access to my ward's local website, but I've only used it once or twice. How much are the local-unit websites being use...