Message-ID: <4C811E53.5060204@uwrf.edu> Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:12:03 -0500 From: Kathryn Otto <kathryn.otto@uwrf.edu> Subject: Re: Questions about Blogs
Sara,
Yes, a blog is searchable using Google or another search tool. Try
searching "Drupal Gardens Harris" on Google and you will find my blog
entry on "Norton Knows." (Yes, a dumb blog name, but it was for a very
specific purpose!) Right now the blog entry is showing up as the 2nd
thing after the actual article that I'm talking about in the posting.
If you're not one of the big, well-known blogs, your entries wouldn't
show up very high in the results list unless you make sure that you use
terms in the blog post's title or the posting itself that make it stand
out -- e.g. there's nothing else on the Internet using those terms. So
think about writing your postings so there are terms in the post that
people might use when searching the Internet that will bring them to
your posting, and you don't get lost on page 10 of the results list!
Kathryn Otto
University Archives & Area Research Center
UW-River Falls
On 9/2/2010 2:27 PM, sara steele wrote:
> Hi
> Which Historical Societies are using blogs? I have the same questions
> that Jarrod has about FaceBook but am several months behind and am
> just considering doing some informal blogging perhaps as a means of
> sharing some of the photos in our photo collection and some of my
> views of the difference between collecting photos as visual records
> and accepting them like other museum items.
> We currently share our photos to illustrate text in specific-topics
> reports which run about 50 pages and are run by a printer--often with
> color covers--extemely reasonable costwise. We do not have a website.
> In addition to Jarrod's questions, I'd love to have help from an
> individaul who rememers how they got a site and got started with a blog.
> Indivduals or societies who use all three can be helpful in sharing
> comparisons in terms of roles and uses.
> Another question, sort of like Jerrod's last one is how do people
> locate a blog? Do they show up when you google?
> Thank you!
> History of image production
> On a different subject a descendent of the man who built the first
> house in Cottage Grove in 1841 has sent a photo of the man. She also
> has emailed me a quick history of periods different techniques were
> used. If she is willing, would you like me to post her message? I
> had asked how glass plates fit chronologically with tintypes. I am
> not sure I understand her reply in that glass was used in both of the
> techniques before tintypes came along in the 1850s.
> Sara Steele
> Text Archivist
> Cottage Grove Area Historical Society
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Monroe County Local History Room
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> *To:* localhistory@listserve.uwec.edu
> <mailto:localhistory@listserve.uwec.edu>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 01, 2010 3:49 PM
> *Subject:* Facebook: necessary evil or PR godsend?
>
> Hello everyone.
>
> Our museum does not currently have a Facebook presence but we're
> looking into it. I know little of Facebook and have trepidation
> about starting up without knowing more about how effective this
> format has been for small historical societies and museums for
> networking. I was wondering if I could ask those of you who
> operate Facebook accounts for your historical organization some
> questions?
>
> --what do you wish you knew when you first started your Facebook
> page that you know now?
>
> --what tips could you share to make an organization's Facebook
> page successful and worthwhile?
>
> --what warnings would you share?
>
> --how much time do you (should you) devote to maintaining your
> Facebook page? How often do you post stuff? I guess I'm concerned
> about the time commitment.
>
> --do you find that genealogists appreciate and use it to
> share/communicate info about family history? Does it work as a
> listserv?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jarrod M. Roll
>
> Director - County Historian
>
> Monroe County Local History Room & Museum
>
> 200 West Main St.
>
> Sparta, WI 54656
>
> 608-269-8680
>
> MCLHR@centurytel.net
>
> www.MCLHR.org
>