Here's how we've organized our Elders Quorum: We have a Google Sites site, and it links to all the important documents people might need.   After the home page, we have a page for the sacrament. There's a Google Spreadsheet embedded in the page that can be edited by anyone on the web. So our Elders use that page to easily sign up for preparing, blessing, and passing the sacrament. Our Sacrament Coordin ...

TellYourBossAnything.com is a free service of Happiily, a company that specializes in software that helps companies and manager provide a safe, anonymous way for employees to provide feedback and thoughts on their work, work environment, boss, etc. Essentially they act as a buffer. If a company were to internally provide a solution that let their employees login to submit feedback "anonymously," employees w ...

Here's the deal: educated voting on a local level for judges, city and county officials, and even sometimes state-level representatives can be like taking a test. Sure it's open-book or open-smartphone, but who wants to be standing in a ballot box for 2hrs trying to make all the right decisions. Let's face it, most of us, especially life-hacker types, end up checking the "straight ticket" option for one par ...

Ever get tired of having to go back and remove the little superscript a's, b's, and c's from scriptures you copied and pasted from LDS.org? Sure we know you can just click the link on the right to "Hide Footnotes," but then the links are gone too. Want the best of both? The website Mormon Liberals has created a Chrome Extension and a FireFox plugin called "No LDS Footnotes" that does just that. It removes t ...

Along with announcing the new Kindle Fire HD lineup, Amazon announced some enhancements to it's Kindle technology. One is called "Immersion Reading" where you can listen to an audiobook, and have the corresponding line highlighted onscreen at the same time. I assume the idea is to help people learning languages, where they can follow along with what they're hearing. The other is similar and called "Whispers ...

I remember having a conversation about the Spirit, with my college roomate. He was 3-4 years younger than myself and preparing for a mission. He said something about how it’s not possible to have the Spirit with you all the time. I agreed, but called to his attention those days when everything just seems right. Though everything doesn’t go right, you’re not bothered by it. You’re just a little happier than ...

Remember this ratio: 5:1. Five positives. One negative. If you have 5 positive interactions for every 1 negative interaction you have with your spouse, you are nearly guaranteed to have a successful, lasting marriage. The book How Full is Your Bucket examines the effect of positive emotions on people. Rath and Clifton cite a study by John Gottman who filmed 15-minute conversations of 700 newlyweds. He then ...

Cool Links are stuff you might find interesting, but either weren't worthy of their own article (others have already covered it), or I didn't have time to get to it. Here's some for August 2012: Create an automatic journal in Evernote from Calendar events, Facebook status, & Instagram photos, using this guide from Lifehacker. Richard & Linda Eyre are well-known LDS experts on parenting, families, an ...

...join with people of all faiths who feel accountable to God in defending religious freedom so it can be a beacon for morality. We caution you to be civil and responsible as you defend religious liberty and moral values. We ask that you do this on the internet and in your personal interactions in the neighborhoods and communities where you live. Be an active participant, not a silent observer. —Elder Quent ...

The Mormon Channel has a great new show that should be right up all you Mormon life-hacker's alley. It's called Tech Savvy. On it they discuss all kinds of ways to use technology in LDS life. Each episode has a theme, but so far they've been very broad, so there's many great little tips and tricks within each. It's filmed and available in video, but for the most part you won't miss anything if you just list ...