Russ Page
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Links: All of Gordon B. Hinckley’s General Conference Addresses as prophet
Jan 28th
I have my thoughts about Gordon B. Hinckley, but I think his own will be better to hear. So, I’ve compiled direct links to every one of his General Conference talks as Prophet and President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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April 1995
- This Work is Concerned with People (Priesthood)
- This is the Work of the Master
- We Have A Work to Do
- Stand Strong against the Wiles of the World (General Relief Society Meeting)
October 1995
- As We Gather Together
- Of Missions, Temples, and Stewardship (Priesthood)
- Stay the Course–Keep the Faith
- The Fabric of Faith and Testimony
- The Light Within You
April 1996
- “Be Ye Clean” (Priesthood)
- This Glorious Easter Morn
- “Remember … Thy Church, O Lordâ€
- Stand True and Faithful (General Young Women)
October 1996
- Listen by the Power of the Spirit
- “This Thing Was Not Done in a Corner” (Priesthood)
- Women of the Church
- “Reach with a Rescuing Hand”
April 1997
October 1997
- Drawing Nearer to the Lord
- Some Thoughts on Temples, Retention of Converts, and Missionary Service (Priesthood)
- Look to the Future
- Latter-day Saints in Very Deed
April 1998
- We Bear Witness of Him
- Living Worthy of the Girl You Will Someday Marry (Priesthood)
- Testimony
- New Temples to Provide “Crowning Blessings” of the Gospel
October 1998
- Welcome to Conference
- To the Boys and to the Men (Priesthood)
- What Are People Asking about Us?
- Benediction
- Walking in the Light of the Lord (General Relief Society Meeting)
April 1999
- The Work Moves Forward
- The Shepherds of the Flock
- The Shepherds of the Flock (Priesthood)
- “He Is Not Here, but Is Risen”
- Thanks to the Lord for His Blessings
October 1999
- Welcome to Conference
- Why We Do Some of the Things We Do (Priesthood)
- At the Summit of the Ages
- Good-bye to This Wonderful Old Tabernacle
April 2000
- To All The World in Testimony
- The Stake President (Priesthood)
- My Testimony
- A Time of New Beginnings
October 2000
- A Great Family in Reverence and Worship
- “Great Shall Be the Peace of Thy Children” (Priesthood)
- The Great Millennial Year
- “An Humble and a Contrite Heart”
- Your Greatest Challenge, Mother (General Relief Society Meeting
April 2001
- The Work Goes On
- The Perpetual Education Fund (Priesthood)
- The Miracle of Faith
- Good-bye for Another Season
- How Can I Become the Woman of Whom I Dream? (General Young Women Meeting)
October 2001
- Living in the Fullness of Times
- Reaching Down to Lift Another (Priesthood)
- The Times in Which We Live
- “Till We Meet Again”
April 2002
- The Church Goes Forward
- Personal Worthiness to Exercise the Priesthood (Priesthood)
- We Walk by Faith
- We Look to Christ
October 2002
- “O That I Were an Angel, and Could Have the Wish of Mine Heart”
- To Men of the Priesthood (Priesthood)
- The Marvelous Foundation of Our Faith
- Each a Better Person
April 2003
October 2003
- The State of the Church
- The Shepherds of Israel (Priesthood)
- An Ensign to the Nations, a Light to the World
- Let Us Live the Gospel More Fully
- To the Women of the Church (General Relief Society Meeting)
April 2004
- The Church Grows Stronger
- “I Was an Hungred, and Ye Gave Me Meat” (Priesthood)
- The Dawning of a Brighter Day
- Concluding Remarks
- Stay on the High Road (General Young Women Meeting)
October 2004
April 2005
October 2005
April 2006
October 2006
- We Bear Testimony to the World
- Rise Up, O Men of God (Priesthood)
- The Faith to Move Mountains
- Closing Remarks
- In the Arms of His Love (General Relief Society Meeting)
April 2007
- A Tabernacle in the Wilderness
- “I Am Clean” (Priesthood)
- The Things of Which I Know
- Closing Remarks
- Let Virtue Garnish Thy Thoughts Unceasingly (General Young Women Meeting)
177th Semiannual General Conference, October 2007
- The Sustaining of Church Officers
- Slow to Anger (Priesthood)
- The Stone Cut Out of the Mountain
- Closing Remarks
Links compiled by Russ Page
SEO.com forum launched … PR peeps should join up
Jan 25th
Lehi-based SEO.com just launched a new forum for discussing internet marketing strategies and tactics, and I would strongly recommend that all the PR people out there join up and start learning.
While you’re at it,
- Join Digital Point Forums
- Join the forums at Search Engine Watch
- Start using the Google Adwords Keyword Tool before you write a news release.
- Download and learn to use the SearchStatus Extension for FireFox
- Buy and Read the SEO Book from Aaron Wall
- Consider a membership to SEOMoz
There’s a lot of other resources out there, but these are a good start. Try a Utah SEO Consultant while you’re at it.
Fox News Utah gets “Paris Hilton” dramatic
Jan 24th
Fox News in Utah makes me chuckle quite often because of the “news” it runs in between cheerleading the next American Idol episode and engineering news stories one might merely call “infotainment.”
Never mistake, I appreciate a good news story, but when Fox reported that Ogden City had a water line break and half of the city was without water, the on-camera reporter did a live shot in front of a facility for the mentally disabled (stating so) and tried to sensationalize the story even more.
The “news” appeared to be that thousands were without water, but one wouldn’t know for sure because Fox was more concerned with sensationalizing the event. And while there is definite concern for the elderly or disabled, I lose respect for Fox when they try to engineer the news to be more than it is.
The New York Times invests in WordPress parent company
Jan 23rd
News is, The New York Times has joined Polaris Ventures, Radar Ventures and True Ventures as an investor in the highly popular cms/blogging software WordPress. Parent company Automattic raised $29.5 million in Series B Funding.
The New York Times has more than 50 blogs in its digital portfolio that run on WordPress, and Automattic CEO Toni Schneider said blog posts from across the Internet could be featured alongside stories on The Times’ Web site.
… the lines between new media and old media blur even more . . .
WordPress creator pulls in $29.5 million
Times Company in Group Investing in Blog Publisher
WordPress Parent Raises $29.5M
What’s on your bucket list?
Jan 23rd
Bucket list: A list of things you would like to see, visit, do or experience before you “kick the bucket.”
Me?
- Start my own restaurant.
- Visit New Zealand
- Grow a beard (That one could be tough for my hairless chin).
- Attend the World Series (preferably a game 7)
- Visit Cooperstown, New York
- Run a small farm (maybe with a goat or something. one will do).
You?
Heath Ledger found dead: News breaks 90 minutes later
Jan 22nd
Actor Heath Ledger was found dead in his apartment at 3:31 EST today, and the news was out in less than 90 minutes.
It’s always a saddening time when someone unexpectedly dies, and he was quite the talented actor who will be missed. Frankly, I’m even more interested in seeing his performance as The Joker in the upcoming Batman film The Dark Knight as it was his last. I also took a minute to wander over to his Wikipedia entry, and to my surprise, it had already been updated (see screen capture taken at 3:06 MDT).
The Speed of News
It’s frightening how fast news travels in the year 2008, but it’s also a lesson to companies, people and PR practitioners. News moves at rocket speed, and it no longer becomes tomorrow’s bird-cage liner with the advent of the Internet, social networks (I read it first on Digg) and other online sources that index their news to be read for years to come.
Are the lines blurring between SEO and PR? Absolutely. And the PR person who doesn’t adjust may just end up cleaning bird cages instead of practicing PR.
RIP to Heath Ledger, 28, born in Perth, Australia.
Films
SEO PR?
Jan 21st
Are the lines starting to blur between search engine marketers and public relations practitioners?
- Utah PR people are talking about keyword-stuffed press releases.
- SEO firms are offering online public relations and press release optimization services . . . (SEO.com)
- SEO firms are offering copywriting services.
- PR firms are pushing “new media,” blogs, podcasts, Diggs, etc….
- Internet marketers are pushing the “seo press release.” (Newspapergrl)
- PR firms are tracking the number of hits to a news story/press release online . . .
- SEM firms are doing ad buys (it’s called pay-per-click).
- Both parties are pitching stories to journalists (and citizen journalists).
- Both are employing “new media” in the form of blogs.
and on, and on….
