Greg Trimble
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He starts off by explaining that the Church has encouraged us to share the gospel online. “In July of 2008, Elder Ballard asked members of the Church to ‘join the conversation by participating on the Internet to share the gospel and to explain in simple and clear terms the message of the Restoration.’ …Elder Perry followed up a few years later requesting us to join with him, ‘In this exciting new work by becoming Facebook friends with the missionaries in your area on your own computers and sharing their gospel messages online.’ And most recently, Elder Bednar asked us very clearly to sweep the earth with messages of goodness using various social media outlets” (pages 19-20).
He then addresses the problem of “Internet transparency:”
He talks about the problem of investigators turning to the Internet after the missionaries leave, to find out more about the church, and having antagonistic information come up in the first results, which makes them no longer interested in having the missionaries return. He explains how to help combat that problem by writing a blog post to address the very things that people search for, such as “Is the Book of Mormon true?” “Is the Book of Mormon false?” “Was Joseph Smith a true prophet?” “What is the purpose of temples?” etc. He tells how to use keywords in the title and meta information for the post, to help when Google indexes it, so it will come up higher in the results.
There are chapters about overcoming your fear of sharing, not waiting until something is perfect before posting (or else it may never be posted), adopting a conversational writing style, and how to format your blog posts so that it will be read by both people and Google. He talks about how much easier it is to share things where people will see them than to approach them individually to talk about the gospel, and that what you say may plant seeds that you never know about.
One chapter talks about “Staying Positive with the Critics.” “It will be tempting to respond to critics, to call people names, to be sarcastic, or to demean and belittle because of a comment here and a biting remark there. …If you stay positive, others will take notice and be drawn to the things that you’re writing. If you become negative, then people will be turned off to your message” (pages 120-121). It warns that “If you are willing to begin creating content that is favorable to the Church and you are defending the truth online, there is a good chance people will begin creating content to discredit you as well. It is something that you’ll need to be ready for if you’d like to become a virtual missionary for Zion” (pages 122-123).
Other chapters cover practical things like how to set up a blog and how to create an online strategy for your stake. The book ends with warnings to remain humble and not to expect to get rich from blogging, followed by one last chapter encouraging online missionary work. There are also appendixes with available tools and a list of ideas for topics to write about. Finally, there is a “bonus chapter” about writing a book and getting it published.… (mere)