Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2022 17:44:56 +0000 (UTC) From: wyward <wyward@yahoo.com> Message-ID: <949830641.2014891.1643478296695@mail.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Using Facebook to do a local history project
Hi All,  Appleton Historical Society has had a Facebook Group p
age for about 6 years, we have over 5k of members in that group starting th
is year, but not all active posters. We post a daily picture or someone els
e will, and that keeps it active with many discussions. we also sometimes u
se it to do Live presentations. Our Youtube page we post any presentations
that we tape and other local old home movies that we find interesting.Â
Because of covid there have a few been social isolation and archiving gr
ants available that may help with the cost of creating content for sharing
with those isolated from the outside world.
Brian SchneiderAHS
On Saturday, January 29, 2022, 11:15:59 AM CST, sara m steele <smsteele
@wisc.edu> wrote:
Oh, I like the involvement! Good thinking Russ, and thanks for sharin
g
Is there a list somewhere of the Historical Societies that have a Facebook
Page or regularly use Instagram or YouU Tube?
I've been posting some Power Point picture stories exported as video clips
on our CGAHS Facebook page, but hadn't.thought of it as a tool of involveme
nt, other than asking for help in identifying some of the people in the pic
tures which come from our image collection. I started doing them because I
like to connect photos together and think they look much better on a monito
r than in print.
I'm beginning to explore building some electronic scrapbooks made up of ne
wspaper clippings, photos and scans of maps, deeds, and other papers that f
it together in a history of some local event, place, or person over time. H
owever, I will probably export those as PDF's rather than video clips.
Power Point is very easy to use. One can add a little text to bridge
from one item to another.Â
Social media reaches folks who won't take time to come to a museum or
special exhibit as well as those keenly interested in history. It al
so can reach former residents and others all over the country (and wo
rld).
Sara from CGAHS
On 1/26/2022 3:39 PM, JANET IRENE SEYMOUR wrote:
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2022 8:59 AM
SEYMOUR <janet.seymour@wisconsinhistory.org>
Subject: Using Facebook to do a local history project  The Sterlin
g Laketown and Eureka Historical Society, located in NW
Wisconsin, NW Polk County along the scenic and wild St Croix River,
kicked off a project to do a history of a small local town that has
mostly disappeared.
  It begins with a Facebook page  Â
https://www.facebook.com/History-of-Atlas-Wisconsin-111739398049434/
  We have many clippings and other information and photos from
the area,
but want to involve the local folks with an Atlas background and
possibly recruit them as members and volunteers in our local history
society.
  What we did is on January,3, 2022, is create a Facebook page,
send
invites to the folks already on our history society Facebook pages and
then start putting the photos and stories on the page.
  In 20 days we have done about 3 posts per day, now gotten 200
page
followers, average 700 views per day and have gotten the names of nearly
100 folks with ties and information about Atlas, with offers to help.
  With Covid still serious here, we are waiting until March (or
Covid
waning) to kick of a series of informal Atlas programs at the museum
where we gather the folks to tell us more (resulting in videos). We
also plan to do a few Atlas walks (1/4 mile) with folks explaining what
is there.
   If all goes as planned, we will get a new part of our m
embership from
the Atlas area, some volunteers and a theme for the spring and summer as
we explore what is left of the tiny town. We even may sponsor a kids
fishing contest of the dam millpond!
   The key is providing an intense saturation of the Faceb
ook page with
posts, photos, and then get folks commenting on them sharing and giving
us new information. So far we have had about 10 stories come in and
30
new photos.
  And of course all of this will go into a book to sell for the
local
historical society, as one can download the posts and photos that are on
the Facebook page and turn them into a document, then edit them.
Russ Hanson
Sterling Eureka and Laketown Historical Society
Museum in uptown Cushing, WI Polk County on top of the hill where the
settler's gathered to defend themselves from the 1870s Indian uprising
(a false alarm!).