Internet Activity Around President Hinckley

The activity on the Internet surrounding President Hinckley has been huge this and last week.

Newsroom has an article pointing to some of the major coverage.

BlogPulse ranked "Gordon B. Hinckley" as the third most mentioned person in the blogosphere on the day after he died.

As of 11:20am this morning there were 170 groups on Facebook created in memory of President Hinckley. 29,038 individuals belong to the largest group which is called "In Memory of Gordon B. Hinckley." Over 90,000 people have subscribed to at least one of the groups.

There's also a new web site called HinckleyChallenge. This is an unofficial web site which challenges people to read the Book of Mormon in 97 days (in commemoration of his age when he died).

Finally, there is a great video up on YouTube where young people share their feelings about the Prophet.

New Web Sites for Two Church Presidents

In honor of President Hinckley's passing and President Monson's new assignment two new web sites were created to celebrate these wonderful men.

gordonbhinckley.com

thomassmonson.com

In addition, the MoreGood Foundation has also created web sites:

www.gordonhinckley.com

www.thomasmonson.com

Glenn Beck on President Hinckley

Thanks to Brad Stoddard for pointing me to Glenn Beck's comments the day after President Hinckley's passing.

President Hinckley has passed away

President Hinckley passed away tonight at 7:00pm, MST.

I will miss his sense of humor, his energy, and his passion.

What a wonderful man.

Expressing your feelings

On December 15th of last year, Elder M. Russell Ballard, an apostle of the LDS Church, gave a talk to students of Brigham Young University in Hawaii. He encouraged the students to express their feelings and testimonies of the Church using new media (including the Internet).

Last week at Church, a young man talked about the efforts of some of the kids he knows to express themselves on the Internet.

If you search YouTube you will find plenty of videos which are negative about the Church. However there you will always see that members of the Church are starting to step up and express their testimonies, create montages, and even write and perform songs.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LdPT5oVtG9E

Brad's Testimony

Keep it up!

http://www.ldscio.org/2007/10/08/video-blog-experiment/

http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/news-releases-stories/using-new-media-to-support-the-work-of-the-church

Video Blog Experiment

Let's try an experiment.

For those who have an inclination, I'd love to hear/see video blogs which chronicle your reactions to this last general conference.

Please post a link to your video in the comments. I assume 90% of you will use good judgement and avoid abusive language, criticism or clips from copyrighted material. For the other 10%, I will review each post before allowing it be live in the comments. If the clips are 30 minutes long, it will take me a lot longer to view them all. A couple of minutes each might be more like it. :)

Have fun! This will be an interesting test. Share your comments/feelings with the world! 

[Joel: Thanks to Justin, our one and only attempt at the video experiment so far!]