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Many historical Societies and archives find themselves with hundreds if not thousands of slides and negatives in their collections often with little or no description of what is on each of them. From a preservation standpoint color slides and negatives will suffer from deterioration over time, especially pre-1978 where slides and negatives which where made with […]
This Minnesota Local History x DressHead Womens Plaid Skirt – Multi Colored / Low Waist / Knee Length is reminiscent of a chess board, but instead of knights, kings, and pawns, it shows off girly items like shoes, rings, and hearts. The “game pieces” are a dark red color, and can be seen on both […]
The creation of digital assets in order to preserve and create access to collections is confusing enough for large libraries, museums and organizations. This audio podcast – (covers of the first half of the document) and PDF document is based on the Western States Digital Imaging Best Practices (PDF) but has been simplified and edited down […]
A general overview of how to care for, store, and exhibit textiles in your collections. Presented by Melinda Hutchinson at the Area Museums Meeting, Granite Falls. PowerPoint slides (PDF)
A general overview of how to care for, store, and exhibit textiles in your collections. Presented by Melinda Hutchinson at the Area Museums Meeting, Granite Falls. PowerPoint slides (PDF)
One of the advantages of this job is being able to get out to museums less traveled and in the case of the Saint Peter State Hospital Museum which dwells within the grounds of a maximum security psychiatric hospital – reservations are required. However, that day, the volunteers and staff were holding an open house […]
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 […]
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 […]
Social media/Web Guidelines and Strategy Worksheets
by Joe Hoover
on September 10, 2010
· 3 Comments
· in Advice, Blog, Information Technology, Local History Standards, Marketing, Social Media
As social media tools are becoming increasingly commonplace and valuable to historical organizations and museums it is important to keep the communication appropriate, relevant and inline with the organization’s mission, which is why it is important to have a strategy before going in and to have guidelines on how to best interact when there. The […]
David Grabitske asked me to post about our new website (http://www.morrisoncountyhistory.org) and the reasoning behind how I chose to assemble it the way I did. First, a bit of history. The Morrison County Historical Society first went online with a website in 2002. I had learned enough html to build the text portion of each […]
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