Help Others Bump into the Church Online

At our graduation commencement Elder Ballard talked about spreading the word about the LDS Church through the Internet. He mentioned that there are people that the missionaries can't get to easily like those who live in closed neighborhoods. He said something to the effect that there is no easier way for someone to bump into the church than on the Internet. Read about his address.

He counseled us to get out and participate in the discussions about the church online -- like on news websites.

My Thoughts and Invitation

One thought I have (this is Anthony) is that while we may not have time to be actively participate in discussions online about the church, one thing we could do is make it easier for people to bump into the church through our blogs. (A note on that: Since probably most everyone who reads our family blogs is probably LDS, you might think about promoting the church through your "non-family" blogs (if any) because you are probably more likely to get visitors who are not members of the church to those ones. But I'm not saying not to promote the church on our family blogs either.)

On our family blog and my TipsForTheTaking blog I have posted a feedreader that shows the latest news from the church on the side of the page.

Here are a few resources I have found that might help other people "bump into the church" through blogs:

News Feed Widgets:

These can be posted on your blog to show headlines from the official LDS Newsroom:

• LDS NewsRoom Widget
• RSS Scroller Widget (Just put http://newsroom.lds.org/ for the RSS feed URL)

Icons relating to LDS or Mormons:

The thought here is maybe icons could be placed on the side of blogs and link them to LDS.org or Mormon.org.

• http://www.iconator.com/tags.php?tag=mormon
• http://www.iconator.com/icon.php?IconID=467046
• http://community.livejournal.com/lds_icons/

Other

• Other LDS things on WidgetBox

Articles you might enjoy

• LDS Web Guy's Article about Elder Ballard's Address at BYU-Idaho
  
• LDS News Article about Elder Ballard's similar address at BYU-Hawaii
  
• Quinton L. Cook's Appeal to the Media

Any Ideas?

If anyone knows of any other LDS-related widgets or graphics or something that can help other people bump into the church online, please post them.

Also any and all thoughts are welcome!