Awards
Lists of Brodie award winners:
X-Mormon of the Year 2012: David Twede
X-Mormon of the Year 2011: Joanna Brooks
X-Mormon of the Year 2010: Monica Bielanko
X-Mormon of the Year 2009: Walter Kirn
A Community for Anyone Interested in Mormonism.
Reclaiming Our Stories
This is the presentation I gave for the panel Who gets to say what former Mormons are like? which I organized at the 2012 Sunstone Symposium. I could see that she didn’t know what she was talking about just by the description of this book! Author needs to do her research first! I have only read the description of this book and I realize that I might not really understand the content, but the Mormon church is not like what is being described. The author does not have the least bit of correct Read more [...]
BBC’s This World: The Mormon Candidate
Finally, a Mormon documentary for the rest of us. Hailed by the creator of the I am an Ex Mormon video series as “my favorite video about Mormonism I have ever seen.” Part 1: Mitt Romney Part 2: Mormons Part 3: Exmormons Part 4: Prophets Part 5: Park Part 6: Pundits After I get done watching, it’ll be interesting to compare and contrast John Sweeney’s approach with that of Helen Whitney in her earlier PBS documentary The Mormons. Come to Read more [...]
Posted in And I'm a Mormon, Appearances, Book of Abraham, Film, Media, Politics, Prophets, Public Relations, Romney, Secrecy, Video, YouTube
So you’re a… umm… ok
One viewer’s reaction to an “I’m a Mormon”/Mormon.org video*: Folks be gettin’ annoyed by LDS-sponsored YouTube ads. Mormon YouTube ads engage with social media to advertise their religion, an online version of the door-to-door campaigns conducted by the Jehovahs witnesses. The only difference is that you can no longer shut the door if you dont want to talk. Yahoo! Answers: Q: Why are there so many Mormon videos infesting Youtube? A: The Mormon church is desperate for new members Read more [...]
Posted in And I'm a Mormon, Public Relations, YouTube
Sorry, Mormons, but this is nuts.
The Boston Globe: The Mormon image campaign And here’s my dozen reasons why: (Memo to the Mormon leadership: Diverse teams cause people not to revert to stereotyping.) Plus one for a baker’s dozen. Local Mormons weigh in: Im a Mormon and I am here in New York and I really wish the church would pick some other place to advertise. But it’s not just Mormons. God’s Favorite Musical is driving evangelicals like John Mark Reynolds nuts, too. All signs point to Mormonism Read more [...]
Marvin Perkins: We are one.
Marvin Perkins is described by Mormon blog Times & Seasons as “a Latter-day Saint music producer who is currently the Public Affairs Co-chair for the Genesis Group and who has worked to nurture understanding between African-Americans and Latter-day Saints and attack misconceptions.” Here’s Marvin at T&S: Even couched in kind tones, today we find many in the church who utilize labels of separation like your people, our people etc. We are one. And here’s Marvin attacking misconceptions Read more [...]
Posted in Asshat, Bloggernacle, Gay Agenda, Humor, Hypocrisy, LGBT, Proposition 8, Public Relations, Rights
Top-Secret Mormon Web Traffic Stats Revealed!!
Check out the official December 2010 web analytics that LDS Inc. doesn’t want you to see: How many people visit Church sites? The family of official Church sites (LDS.org, Mormon.org, FamilySearch.org, etc.), gets about seven million unique visitors per month. What are the biggest Church sites? FamilySearch.org is our biggest site with about 3.5 million visitors a month. The LDS.org home page gets about 2.5 million visitors a month. The Gospel Library, which has current and past magazine Read more [...]
Posted in COB, DAMU, Marriott, Mission Field, Mormons, Public Relations, Romney
Does Advertising Campaign Enhance or Dilute Mormon Brand?
Guest post by Rex Whisman. Republished with permission. [Note from Chino Blanco: Cross-posted here because I've just finished listening to Kyle Monson's "Publicity, Advertising, & the New Mormon.org" at BCC, and reading Kaimi Wenger's "The Angel and the Internet" at Times & Seasons, and I think Rex's questions might provide useful jumping off points for engaging those two Bloggernacle posts here at MSP.] A couple of days ago I read about a new advertising campaign for the Church of Jesus Christ Read more [...]
Hi, my name is Nagla, and I’m a Muslim
Nagla and her crew obviously shot this on a slightly tighter budget than what Josh and Aron had to work with. Not that I begrudge our dueling skateboarders the benefit of the best production values that Mormon and Scientologist money can buy (Josh and Aron deserve no less, considering that they’ve both probably already paid out much more to their respective religions than what the ads cost). But enough of that, here’s Nagla (you’ll probably need to crank up the sound to hear her clearly): And Read more [...]
Posted in And I'm a Mormon, Islam, Public Relations, Reid, Romney
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Publicity and Gay Rights Edition!
I was going to call this one “surprises edition” since I’ve been on vacation in Italy — hence almost everything that happened on the Internet in the past fortnight was a surprise to me yesterday (when I finally sat down and read the 1000+ blog entries in my reader). But it soon became clear that there were two main topics that almost everyone in Outer Blogness was talking about. Or is it really two? Maybe it’s just one. Impotent rage explains the connection: everyone knows Mormons as “the Read more [...]
Posted in Public Relations, Rights, Sunday in Outer Blogness
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