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The Peril and Promise of the Internet Within Mormonism

The Peril and Promise of the Internet Within Mormonism. John Dehlin. 10 Things I Learned This Year on the Mormon Internet. Identity matters Moderation wins over “open dialogue” Privacy is dead. Get over it. The challenge of blogging: The desperate need for ratings

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The Peril and Promise of the Internet Within Mormonism

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  1. The Peril and Promise of the Internet Within Mormonism John Dehlin

  2. 10 Things I Learned This Year on the Mormon Internet • Identity matters • Moderation wins over “open dialogue” • Privacy is dead. Get over it. • The challenge of blogging: The desperate need for ratings • Angry at the Church: 3, Happy with the church: 1 • The unecessary chasm between “apologists” and “antis” • Surprisingly high number of people suffering in silence • Audio is great (podcasts) • Video is even better • Social software • Explosion of LDS content

  3. Identity Matters Banner Gate RT & SV Watt Mahoun

  4. Moderation wins over open dialogue FAIR Times and Seasons Ex-Mormon censoring Mormon Stories Blog aggregators

  5. Privacy is Dead…Get Over It Marie Osmond Frappr Maps Web Logs

  6. The Desperate Need for Ratings Life of a blog post Threadjacking Polar attacks Digg & Slashdot

  7. Angry at the Church: 3Happy with the Church: 1 Podcasts Web Site Video moregood

  8. Stupidity of the Chasm between “Apologist” and “Anti” FAIRWiki How do we build a bridge?

  9. Audio is Great Podcast review Success of Mormon Stories

  10. Video is Greater Youtube, Google video Digg experience w/ Godmakers Video overview Remix (Mormon Park, Joseph Smith Superman)

  11. Social software Myspace and facebook Warnings against it ELGG

  12. Explosion of LDS content Dialogues Sunstones Sunstone symposiums Journal of Mormon History BYU Studies

  13. http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=%2Fjmh • http://www.mhahome.org/pubs/journals_on_dvd.php • http://www.lib.byu.edu/spc/byustudies/ • I would also add the UU’s Newspaper digitization effort: • http://www.lib.utah.edu/digital/unews/ • The updating of the Mormonstudies data base: • http://mormonhistory.byu.edu/ • and Michael Hunter’s Mormon Studies page: • http://mormonstudies.byu.edu/ • I’ll try to pull together real numbers for the size of the community • tomtrails

  14. – all the hymns and children’s songs in MP3, as well as in a format where you can transpose and rearrange as you like, and then print things out. • – an online catalog where regular members can order things • – .pdf and .html (or at least one of the two) full versions of all the scriptures, all the scripture stories, all the current manuals, and the Church magazines from 1972 forward. And .mp3 versions of all of them. And all of the CES materials. And most of it’s in Spanish, a lot of it’s in French, and more will be brought in for something like a dozen languages within the next year. • – the various special topics sites (the one for investigators, the one for temples, the one for Joseph Smith…) • Plus all the semi-official stuff from BYU and BYU Broadcasting.

  15. 10 Interesting Dynamics • Google Search • Blogging • Podcasting • Video • The growth • MySpace & Facebook

  16. Podcast Reach • Mormons and Masons w/ Greg Kearney 3,512 • New Order Mormons Pt. 1 (Ann) 2,983 • Polygamy with Todd Compton Pt. 1 2,729 • Kiddie Baps – My Mission Story in Guat. 2,683 • Grant Palmer Pt. 4 2,486 • Stages of Faith Pt. 3 2,435 • Interview with FAIR 2,247 ~2,500 downloads per episode on average

  17. Church Sponsored (1) lds.org (2) byu.edu (3) familysearch.org (4) deseretbook (5) mormon.org (25) josephsmith.net Anti-Mormon (6) exmormon.org (9) lds-mormon.com (13) irr.org (14) 2think.org (21) i4m.com (22) utlm.org (23) saintsalive.com (24) richard packham Apologetic (10) jefflindsay.com (18) fairlds.org Blogs (7) timesandseasons.org (11) bycommonconsent.com (15) millennialstar.org (17) femmormonhousewvs.org (19) mormonstories.org Other (16) ldstoday.com (20) affirmation.org (8) Meridianmagazine.com (12) ldschurchtemples.com Top 25 Web Sites Within Mormonism* *Not counting dating sites

  18. The Long Tail

  19. Who knows me in Sioux City Iowa?

  20. Google Search Terms Referring Folks to Mormon Stories (or “Privacy is Dead…Get Over It”)

  21. City, State, Country, IP Address Pages visited Date, Time Duration of visit Country Referring Link, Search String Domain Name/Company Entry and Exit Pages

  22. The Personal • “John Dehlin” • “John Dehlin Mission President” • “single dallas robbins”

  23. The Strange • “Jim jones survived” • “How to mold football mouthpiece” • “Jones jello cult” • “Joseph smith vs. l. ron hubbard”

  24. The Curious • “do lds believe in creation”

  25. The Sexual • “LDS Whores” • “gay mormon studs” • “extreme mormon girl videos” • “mormon boys sleeping naked on mission experience” • “mormon elder homosexuality” • “open marriage stories” • “was joseph smith gay” • “slept with a married woman Mormon” • “mormon missionaries gang raped names”

  26. The Struggling • “Conflicted with Mormon faith and now in love with non-mormon” • “Mormon used to agree” • “Mormon leaving church telling TBM parents” • “Suicide in the lds community”

  27. Google Trends

  28. Google Trends(Top 10 world cities Googling “Pornography)

  29. Google Video “Mormon”Anti-Stuff

  30. Google Video “Mormon”Pro-Stuff

  31. Google Video “Mormon”Pro-Stuff

  32. Youtube Video “Mormon”

  33. Youtube Video “Mormon”

  34. Youtube Video “Mormon”

  35. Youtube Video “Mormon”

  36. Youtube Video “Mormon”

  37. Youtube Video “Mormon”

  38. Youtube Video “Mormon”

  39. TBM This Mormon Life Mormon Mom-Cast MormonCast Mormon Archipelago Anti-Mormon Mormon Truth! Thechurchisnottrue Catholicmormon Living Truth Mormon Musings Sons of perdition Apologetic? Borderlands Mormon Stories Sunstone Sunstone Classic An Atheists’ Prayer Reproductions of GA Talks LDS Voices BYU Classic Speeches April 05 General Conference Top Podcasts Within Mormonism*

  40. Podcasts

  41. Podcasts

  42. Podcasts

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  44. Podcasts

  45. Podcasts

  46. Podcasts

  47. Wiki Wars • FAIR Wiki • MormonWiki • ZCLM Wiki

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