Sessions at LDS Tech on Thursday 31st March

help us find new ways to "think socially" at the church. we need people with community and marketing experience to brainstorm ways to help the church build social experiences, spread the gospel, and help inspire others. whether it's creating a facebook page, a twitter account, or something similar, we'll work together to figure out solutions we can bring into the social strategy of the church. if you have marketing experience in a technology-related field, enjoy tech writing, or can help us with some design mockups of our ideas, you'll enjoy this project. come join us as we socialize around "thinking social." bonus: if you have videography or photography experience (specifically youtube or flickr), we'd love to have you participate in this session to brainstorm with us. there may be some great uses of your talents in our community social strategy plans.

Ben Galbraith, together with his long-time friend Dion Almaer, forms one-half of the dynamic "Ben and Dion" duo that founded Ajaxian.com, headed Developer Tools at Mozilla, ran Developer Relations at Palm and is now working on a new start-up called Set Direction. Ben's been writing code since he was six and starting businesses since he was ten; he's written books, given hundreds of award-winning presentations world-wide, produced a few technical conferences, sold two companies, and has held CEO, CIO, CTO, and Software Architect positions in the medical, publishing, media, consumer eletronics, advertising, software and internet industries. He lives in Palo Alto with his wife and five children.

presentation: to build community apps, community developers need access to membership and unit data. for obvious reasons, we can't just open up church data to the world. learn how we are exposing data to the community currently (coda), and how we will be exposing data to the community in the future.

The IxF is a framework developed at the Church for web applications. It provides you the ability to get up and running fast, with a standardized look and feel and standard widgets that are easy to implement. We will review how the IxF came to be and what it includes.

presentation: to build community apps, community developers need access to membership and unit data. for obvious reasons, we can't just open up church data to the world. learn how we are exposing data to the community currently (coda), and how we will be exposing data to the community in the future.

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