Duncan Posted September 25, 2019 Share Posted September 25, 2019 I had an exciting opportunity to participate in the Church Archives online Survey and they asked if I had any comments. I did and I said I see all the time online content that is available but is "limited access" and I said why offer it and not have an opportunity to view it or reading it? I said I realize that everyone wants things online immediately in todays day and age and as an example all these video and audio archives of General Conference. Well, not ten minutes ago, after I cried that Bluebell forgot to wish me a happy birthday the other day😭😭 I logged in and would you believe the CHL has put the audio online portions of conferences from 1938-1941. I don't know if they plan on digitizing all of it and video too and who knows if others raised the same point but yeah, surveys do work!!!! 3 Link to comment
Tacenda Posted September 25, 2019 Share Posted September 25, 2019 14 hours ago, Duncan said: I had an exciting opportunity to participate in the Church Archives online Survey and they asked if I had any comments. I did and I said I see all the time online content that is available but is "limited access" and I said why offer it and not have an opportunity to view it or reading it? I said I realize that everyone wants things online immediately in todays day and age and as an example all these video and audio archives of General Conference. Well, not ten minutes ago, after I cried that Bluebell forgot to wish me a happy birthday the other day😭😭 I logged in and would you believe the CHL has put the audio online portions of conferences from 1938-1941. I don't know if they plan on digitizing all of it and video too and who knows if others raised the same point but yeah, surveys do work!!!! This is great news! I was starting to think the church was hiding some unconventional talks. BTW, I'm sorry I missed saying Happy Birthday to you on FB, I hope you had the best day! 🇨🇦🎈🎉 Link to comment
Duncan Posted September 25, 2019 Author Share Posted September 25, 2019 Just now, Tacenda said: This is great news! I was starting to think the church was hiding some unconventional talks. BTW, I'm sorry I missed saying Happy Birthday to you on FB, I hope you had the best day! 🇨🇦🎈🎉 🎁 Thank you!!!!! Link to comment
bluebell Posted September 25, 2019 Share Posted September 25, 2019 Happy Birthday Duncan!!!! 3 Link to comment
Duncan Posted September 25, 2019 Author Share Posted September 25, 2019 THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA!! 1 Link to comment
Calm Posted September 25, 2019 Share Posted September 25, 2019 4 hours ago, Tacenda said: was starting to think the church was hiding some unconventional talks. Why does that not surprise me. 1 Link to comment
Tacenda Posted September 25, 2019 Share Posted September 25, 2019 1 hour ago, Calm said: Why does that not surprise me. Well you and someone else were saying how difficult it was to find things on LDS.org now. My bad! Link to comment
InCognitus Posted September 25, 2019 Share Posted September 25, 2019 I need to find one of those surveys. The Church web site is very thorough and complete with their labels, but sometimes they go overboard on audio files. I downloaded the complete MP3 set for Volume 1 of "Saints" so I could listen to it in my car while travelling, I copied them to a USB drive and plugged it into my 2013 Nissan's built in audio player, and when I tried to open the directory it CHOKED. It was totally unresponsive. After a bit of trial and error troubleshooting, I found that the Album tags on the MP3 files are literally 110 characters long! For example, this is one of them: "Saints: The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter-days, Volume 1: The Standard of Truth, 1815-1846". (I'd need to take at least three breaths while trying to say that title out loud!) After I edited all of the Album tags to shorten them to a reasonable length, it worked just fine in my car I've been meaning to provide that as feedback to the web site, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. Link to comment
Calm Posted September 25, 2019 Share Posted September 25, 2019 (edited) They have a feedback option...not sure if still posted on each page or not. Used to be at the very bottom of each page. Just checked....on my iPad there is an orange tab on the right hand side towards the bottom. That gives me the option of providing general feedback or specific to the page feedback. Edited September 25, 2019 by Calm 1 Link to comment
Stargazer Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 On 9/25/2019 at 4:41 PM, Duncan said: 🎁 Thank you!!!!! I probably missed it, myself. I haven't spent much time there on FB recently, and missed a few other birthdays. So have a belated happy from me, too! 1 Link to comment
Stargazer Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 On 9/25/2019 at 9:31 PM, Calm said: Why does that not surprise me. She needs to check out some J. Golden Kimball sometime. I think that would take care of the need to find unconventional talks. Link to comment
Tacenda Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 1 hour ago, Stargazer said: She needs to check out some J. Golden Kimball sometime. I think that would take care of the need to find unconventional talks. No, his talks are some of the best, lol! I'm aware the church takes out some of the spoken wording and changes it before it's put into transcript form. Which is fine, but the one talk by Pres. Packer is a for instance. Not saying it happens alot though. https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/general-conference/1976/10/media/2680671857001?lang=eng Link to comment
Calm Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 (edited) On 9/25/2019 at 4:11 PM, Tacenda said: Well you and someone else were saying how difficult it was to find things on LDS.org now. My bad! But that means it is hard to find everything, not just somethings. You don't shift to pushing for much more personal study if you don't want your people to learn things. Edited October 1, 2019 by Calm Link to comment
Tacenda Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 (edited) 13 minutes ago, Calm said: But that means it is hard to find everything, not just somethings. You don't shift to pushing for much more personal study if you don't want your people to learn things. In my quote to Stargazer I mentioned that the church will take out spoken words and delete them from the transcripted words. So that is what my fly by comment that some things that are unconventional may be taken away, this and entire talks. Here is another for instance: https://www.heraldextra.com/boyd-k-packer-cleansing-the-inner-temple-part-of/youtube_59b2d4e6-cfd7-11df-a184-001cc4c03286.html In Pres. Packer's talk he said: "Why would our heavenly father do that to anyone? Remember, he is our father." https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2010/10/cleansing-the-inner-vessel?lang=eng Some suppose that they were preset and cannot overcome what they feel are inborn temptations toward the impure and unnatural. Not so! Remember, God is our Heavenly Father. Edited October 1, 2019 by Tacenda Link to comment
Rain Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 On 9/24/2019 at 5:43 PM, Duncan said: I had an exciting opportunity to participate in the Church Archives online Survey and they asked if I had any comments. I did and I said I see all the time online content that is available but is "limited access" and I said why offer it and not have an opportunity to view it or reading it? I said I realize that everyone wants things online immediately in todays day and age and as an example all these video and audio archives of General Conference. Well, not ten minutes ago, after I cried that Bluebell forgot to wish me a happy birthday the other day😭😭 I logged in and would you believe the CHL has put the audio online portions of conferences from 1938-1941. I don't know if they plan on digitizing all of it and video too and who knows if others raised the same point but yeah, surveys do work!!!! You share my son's birthday. Happy late birthday! Unfortunately you forgot to add me as a facebook friend or I would have wished you both a happy birthday. Link to comment
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