Using the “New Media” To Get Our Message out

Posted on July 26, 2008 
Filed Under Uncategorized
Tags: , ,

I think Facebook will be a great way for us to stay in touch and expand our membership. I know that many of us have little to no experience with Facebook and it is just one more thing that we do not have time to learn. However, it is the wave of the future and undoubtedly our children are already there.

It will be a way to reach the students and younger generation to get them involved with the BYU Management Society. To the graduating classes of both BYU-Hawaii (Saturday, December 15, 2007) and BYU-Idaho (Friday, April 11, 2008) Elder Russell M. Ballard, of the Quorum of the 12 Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, called upon the graduates and their guests to use the Internet to take our message to the world. On 21 April 2008 Elder Ballard was honored for his life-time achievement by the Brigham Young University Management Society in Washington D.C. where he addressed the group which included such notable people as Senators Harry Reid, Orrin Hatch, Robert Bennett, and Gordon Smith and raised the same plea. (Transcript of his address to the Washington, DC chapter of the BYU Management Society.) The cover story of the July Ensign, also written by Elder Ballard, was on this same topic.

If you have not already done so, I suggest you create an account on Facebook (it only takes a few minutes to enter the minimum information and you can expand it later). Then, as a separate step, join our Facebook group, “BYU Management Society.” Also, as indicated in the last post, some chapters are forming their own Facebook groups on the chapter or other levels. Then you will have greater access to information about events, people, news, etc. Please post any comments you might have on this topic either pro or con.

Comments

Trackback URL for this post:

One Response to “Using the “New Media” To Get Our Message out”

  1. John Dye on July 27th, 2008 6:50 am

    I totally agree that new media has to be part of the initiative to introduce people to the gospel. With the new TRUTH RESTORED campaign being undertaken by the Church, missionary work is now going online at an unprecedented rate. We all need to take part in every way we can!

Leave a Reply