Conference With a Social twist

General Conference was such an amazing time for inspiration and guidance. I had a different experience than I had in years past because I had focused on looking for short and inspirational quotes and sayings to use on my social media platforms. I mainly used Twitter because of the quickness of posting during the conference. I was able to create word art and take a few pictures as well. I found that Posting on Instagram and twitter while using the #ldsconf and other related hashtags, gave more traffic on my accounts. I gained more followers and more likes because I was posting content that was relatable to the events going on at that time.

The best engagement I had was on Instagram. I took a picture of my conference crepes that we make for conference each year on the first Saturday session. There were a lot of people who liked it, commented on it, and even started following me because they like crepes, conference and it was relatable. On twitter, I had less engagement, but still enough to see how everyone was using the relatable content from conference to get more engagement.

Unfortunately I didn’t do this for all the sessions of conference, I spent more time paying attention to what was being said. I understand the importance of social media and using it to promote and share relatable content in the moment it is being used. But I felt like I wasn’t paying attention to what was being said because I was focusing on posting to my platforms and so I didn’t do it for all the sessions because I missed a lot that was said. So I can see things getting out of control with posting during conference. It did feel fun like a competition to see who could post what was just said first and then everyone would see it and repost it – I did enjoy that.

Overall, using social media during conference was a great way for me to  expand how to share the gospel on social media. I can see it just blowing up others’ social media and that is all they see. Obviously they will do something about it, but from what I learned there are a lot of people engaged on social media that want to help others share that content that is shared. I found it very exciting for my phone to be constantly buzzing with notifications. There were so many things to share and repost, or retweet, and it was amazing to be involved with that big buzz. I found that the hashtag #ldsconf had become trending right as conference started and remained trending on twitter for the entire length of the conference. It was amazing to see how many people use this opportunity to share with others their beliefs and what they are doing. It definitely helps me see the easiness it is to share the gospel on social media and inviting others to participate. With more and more people on social media, it makes it easy to share the gospel and show others how easy it is.