Read the latest from Emily's “Today in the Bloggernacle” feature.

Working together, sharing ideas, promoting inspiration -- we're looking at cool collaborations. Plus, learn where to get technical help as a ward clerk.

Blogs become collaborations as people join together to write fascinating posts and comments, but I love to see this taken one step further. For instance, The Red Brick Store is "a collaboration amongst editors of Mormon-related journals and magazines to nurture and share good writing and good thinking in Mormonism." So instead of fighting for subscribers, these publications have come together to write insightfully about the Mormon publication world as well as provide shared information such as submission guidelines and contests. Please read "Background Check" below for more about this new blog!

Or consider joining "Operation: Mo-Tube," which is collaboration on a grand scale. In effect, the author outlines a collaboration where every online member first creates a YouTube account and then spends five minutes a day rating or commenting on "positive/fair Mormon-content videos OR Rate poorly and flag offensive/unfair/bigoted/negative Mormon-content videos but DO NOT VIEW NOR COMMENT ON SUCH VIDEOS." The result? The poster explains that the YouTube videos that are the most commented and highly rated become more popular and YouTube can be alerted to the videos that are offensive. Cool!

And Women Doing More just put out a call for writers who share inspirational features like "With Wind in Her Wings" or write educational, take-action posts like "Our Favorite Things." I really like their reasoning that ties back to why collaborations are just so cool! "Not only will our voice be louder if we speak as one, but our capacity will be greater if more people contribute to writing what they feel passionate about."

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Background Check: A little more than a month ago, a fantastic Mormon publications collaboration took shape in the form of The Red Brick Store. Eight different publications participate: Dialogue, Exponent II¸ Irreantum, JWHA Journal, MHA Journal, Mormon Artist, Segullah and Sunstone, and they invite other publishing Mormon publications to join. Stephen Carter explains, "To us, the Red Brick Store is the gathering place for all those who are interested in both producing and reading the best in Mormon writing. So every week, each editor sends a bit of writing wisdom out into the world, whether it is by reprinting an editorial from a recent magazine, or offering writing tips they have gleaned as an editor, or reprinting an article, essay or story from past issues." Angela Hallstrom adds, "If we can create a vibrant, voluble community at The Red Brick store, the conversations about art and literature and culture will provide an extra layer of meaning to the work we publish."

I did find the name choice clever. Carter says, "We wanted the blog's name to draw its resonance from Mormon history.... The Red Brick Store was Joseph Smith's store in Nauvoo. It was where the Relief Society was organized, where the first endowments were performed and where Joseph Smith finished translating the Book of Abraham. It was also an important gathering place for the Nauvoo Saints." And finally, Kathryn Lynard Soper sums up: "Perhaps the collaboration at the RBS can serve as an example of the goodwill and synergy that can abound in any community when we respect differences and emphasize similarities." Check it out!

Techie Tip: As technology transforms at almost the blink of an eye, those LDS Church clerks who work in the stakes, wards and branches are going to have questions. And most of these questions will come on Sundays, when the clerks are busily inputting and organizing. It's a problem, but see "How LDS Tech is Helping to Support the Local Unit." I love new forums where people collaborate and help one another accomplish great things!