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From the yearly archives: 2010
In the August 2010 blog on America’s Great Outdoors I advanced the notion that in order to better preserve historic resources the United States needed to tackle the problem of depopulation. If people do not live near historic resources most become unfamiliar with the importance of these historic places. In a sense, depopulation is contributing [...]
From Ice Cream Socials to Social Networking
by Joe Hoover
on December 7, 2010
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· in Fundraising, Information Technology, Social Media
…Or how to get Liked instead of Licked on Facebook There is a deep desire to be social. There is a deep and sometimes urgent desire to raise cash. There is a deep desire to eat ice cream. The ice cream social for over a century has, more or less successfully, has attempted to fulfill [...]
The Wall Street Journal for Friday November 26, 2010 carried an article by Paul Sonne, “Price Hikes Put U.K. Libraries in a Bind.” When it comes to relevance in an age of near universal expectation that people should be able to have electronic access instantly, historical organizations are often said to face many of the [...]
Last year this blog posed a question on Collecting Christmas Letters, for which there was a solid response. To expand on this question, are there any historical organizations offering training on how to write good annual summary letters? One reason that a historical organization might offer such classes is that such an activity might be [...]
Phone books call it a day
by David Grabitske
on November 13, 2010
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· in Collections, Digitization, Information Technology, Marketing
The St. Paul Pioneer Press for Friday November 12, 2010, printed an Associated Press article by Michael Felberbaum, “Familiar phone books dying in digital age.” As Internet penetration edges up in all parts of the state (see Electronic Access for Rural Minnesota), people rely on resources that are both more easily searched and perceived to [...]
Currently eight historical societies have posted reviews of their organization’s web site redesigns on this blog. Looking over the posts, there are some interesting takeaways. Fillmore County Historical Society Cokato Historical Society Morrison County Historical Society Martin County Historical Society Edina Historical Society Otter Tail County Historical Society Clay County Historical Society Lake County Historical [...]
Lake County Historical Society launches updated website
by David Grabitske
on November 5, 2010
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· in Information Technology, Marketing, Visitation
Lake County Historical Society launched their first website in 2000 with a grant from Iron Range Resources. When I started working at the Society in 2009 it was evident that since the website’s launch there was little or no maintenance done or resources dedicated for this purpose. We currently have two independent yet connected websites. We [...]
Fundraising In Hard Times
by David Grabitske
on November 2, 2010
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· in Fundraising, Local History Standards, Museums, Visitation
On Friday October 29, 2010, the Minnesota Alliance of Local History Museums held their annual fall meeting and awards program in the new Laird Norton Addition to the Winona County Historical Society. For those of you that missed it, the topic of the panel discussion was on fundraising in hard times, with three specific examples. [...]
Last week the new traveling exhibits program announced the itineraries of the first two traveling exhibits from the Minnesota Historical Society. The Minnesota Legislature in its 2009 legislation appropriating money from the Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund supported a new exhibit at the Minnesota History Center, along with a traveling version. While the content for [...]
Role for local history during church closures
by David Grabitske
on October 18, 2010
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· in Collections, Exhibits, Local History Standards
News over the past weekend that the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis would restructure it parishes by closing or merging congregations with others brought to mind all of the same challenges of relocating membership, maintenance costs, manpower shortages, and more long faced by rural churches of many denominations. The news and reaction [...]
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