InCognitus Posted January 26 Posted January 26 (edited) My field of work is related to construction, so I was already familiar with this channel for work reasons. But The B1M is a construction related channel on YouTube that puts out new videos every Wednesday. According to their website, "The B1M is the world’s largest, most subscribed-to (and best) video channel for construction. Over 32 million people watch our videos each month." They are based in Sydney and London, as you will be able to tell from the accent of the narrator, Fred Mills. This week they featured the renovations being made to the Salt Lake Temple. The beginning of it is rather strange, like them tying this all to the "notorious reality shows" (you can guess which ones) and saying that this "is the $2 billion dollar operation to save the world’s largest Mormon church… and the secret urban history that allowed it to exist in the first place" (they always need to get the word "secret" in there somehow). They get the name of the church right at the very first of the video, but then later they refer to the building as the "Mormon" temple and refer to its members as "Mormons", and a couple of times in the video they call us "the Church of the Latter-day Saints". They speak highly of the project, and also for the foresight of Brigham Young for his layout of the city blocks and city design in general. But most importantly, it gives a very good description of what is being done to the temple to protect it from earthquakes: These videos always have an in-video advertisement toward the middle, you can skip around that. The video also provides some world history of why this kind of renovation is needed, showing scenes from the February 2011 devastation to the Christchurch Cathedral in New Zealand. Aside from the quirky beginning, I thought they did a good job overall. And I think it's great that they are giving world-wide recognition to the foresight of this renovation and the scale of the project, and they speak highly of it. Edited January 26 by InCognitus 3
JVW Posted January 26 Posted January 26 This video was really good, thanks for sharing! As an aside, I think church newsroom needs to step up their game. As a worldwide church I think it's safe to assume that there is enough news material where the church could have a news station setup running 24/7 and still wouldn't be able to cover all church newsworthy events. While the church news produced a few good videos about the SLC temple renovation, they don't really report on much in general and when they do it tends to be pretty vague. Also, while I'm whining, I'll say that the church needs to make their search feature on LDS.org not suck. It is so bad. I hope that one day the church can have a world-class church newsroom and search engine. Until then, I will enjoy videos like this one from B1N that did a better job than the church at producing a video about the temple renovation. 2
InCognitus Posted January 26 Author Posted January 26 43 minutes ago, JVW said: the church needs to make their search feature on LDS.org not suck I was preparing a talk for sacrament meeting one time and was searching on the church website for a particular approach to my topic that I had in mind, and I was getting nothing. I tried for over an hour. I knew I couldn't have been the first person to have considered the specific approach that I wanted to take, so I was annoyed that I couldn't find anything. This is going to sound strange, but (in all seriousness) I had to rely on personal revelation (an answer to prayer) to find the exact search words to use to find information on the church website using the approach to my topic that I was looking for, and after using those search words I found a talk that was exactly what I needed. (Maybe that's the point, the church wants us to use personal revelation instead of their search engine? ) So, yes, I know exactly what you mean! I have also used the Google Advanced Search to find information on the church website, and that has been helpful as a workaround to the search engine on the website. 50 minutes ago, JVW said: I hope that one day the church can have a world-class church newsroom and search engine. Until then, I will enjoy videos like this one from B1N that did a better job than the church at producing a video about the temple renovation. Thank you for your comments on the video. I agree. The work the church is having done to the temple is impressive, and it's awesome that it is getting world-wide attention from a construction point of view, and that also brings attention to how the church views the importance of the temple. 1
Calm Posted January 26 Posted January 26 2 hours ago, InCognitus said: have also used the Google Advanced Search to find information on the church website, and that has been helpful as a workaround to the search engine on the website. Chat’s been helpful as well, though missed stuff I found with Google. 1
JVW Posted January 26 Posted January 26 4 hours ago, InCognitus said: I was preparing a talk for sacrament meeting one time and was searching on the church website for a particular approach to my topic that I had in mind, and I was getting nothing. I tried for over an hour. I knew I couldn't have been the first person to have considered the specific approach that I wanted to take, so I was annoyed that I couldn't find anything. This is going to sound strange, but (in all seriousness) I had to rely on personal revelation (an answer to prayer) to find the exact search words to use to find information on the church website using the approach to my topic that I was looking for, and after using those search words I found a talk that was exactly what I needed. (Maybe that's the point, the church wants us to use personal revelation instead of their search engine? ) So, yes, I know exactly what you mean! I have also used the Google Advanced Search to find information on the church website, and that has been helpful as a workaround to the search engine on the website. Thank you for your comments on the video. I agree. The work the church is having done to the temple is impressive, and it's awesome that it is getting world-wide attention from a construction point of view, and that also brings attention to how the church views the importance of the temple. Out of curiosity, what was the word string you used in the church's search engine and what was the talk you found? Your story sounds really interesting but you communicated it in a vague way because the meat of the story was besides the point, but I'd like to know more details... I hope that the SLC temple open house is so popular that they have to extend it for years in order to accommodate everyone from around the world who wants to walk through it and see it. It's a beautiful building. 1
InCognitus Posted January 26 Author Posted January 26 (edited) 1 hour ago, JVW said: Out of curiosity, what was the word string you used in the church's search engine and what was the talk you found? Your story sounds really interesting but you communicated it in a vague way because the meat of the story was besides the point, but I'd like to know more details... The topic I was assigned was "The Power of the Scriptures" (an awesome topic). The strange thing was that I had just given a talk eight months earlier in the same ward on the topic, "The Scriptures - The Most Profitable of All Study", so I had to remind the bishopric person who called me that I had just given a talk on a similar subject not that long ago, but he assured me that he still wanted me to give the talk (all I could think of at the time was the tagline to the movie, Jaws 2: "Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water..."). So I wanted to approach the topic from the standpoint of receiving revelation now based on reading the scriptures from long ago, as a catalyst to revelation, and I wanted to start out with Joseph Smith reading James 1:5 that prompted him to pray and seek an answer to his prayer. In other words, the scripture led him to receiving revelation. That was my desired approach. I don't recall the exact search words I finally typed in, but whatever I typed led me directly to a January 1995 Ensign article by Dallin H. Oaks that was exactly what I needed. It was titled, "Scripture Reading and Revelation". It seems so obvious now in hind sight (if I had only known the title of that article!), but I had a really hard time finding anything at first. I ended up using a lot of that article in my talk because it was a perfect fit for what I wanted to say. It also seems fitting that my experience played into the topic of my talk (although I didn't find the search words I had used in the scriptures!). But I'll never forget the experience and my frustration with the search engine on the church website! But it taught me a good lesson. Edited January 26 by InCognitus
longview Posted January 27 Posted January 27 7 hours ago, JVW said: I'll say that the church needs to make their search feature on LDS.org not suck. It is so bad. Which is why I subscribe to https://scripturenotes.com/ It uses boolean logic with logical operators for a precise search.
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