Budleigh Past and Present

Image credit:  Bodo Akdeniz Spam is a pain. For several years I’ve been emailing recipients of my blog news about Budleigh Salterton and Fairlynch Museum, keeping them up to date with the latest news, views and oddities that many of us find interesting or entertaining.  Recently 100 of my readers didn’t receive a message from me, probably because of anti-spam paranoia on the part of the cyberlords. All my blog posts appear in a shortened version on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Fairlynch and Twitter with a link to the full post complete with more pics. If you haven’t heard from me for some time, and if you want to keep in touch with Budleigh news, please do look at the Fairlynch Facebook community page. You don’t have to join Facebook to do so. Of course you may decide to take the plunge and join the billions who use it. In which case it would be lovely if you could LIKE the Fairlynch page. When I first moved to Budleigh seven years ago I menti...

Give your day a smile! Visit www.facebook.com/Fairlynch We obviously couldn’t manage to fit them into our tiny little museum, so the headline is only a dream. But it’s a dream that can be easily realised thanks to the Internet. That’s what the obvious conclusion was at the end of a day’s workshop in Exeter at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum’s offices with Claire Sully and John Brunsdon from Bristol-based Tickbox Marketing  http://www.tickboxmarketing.co.uk/ The firm has been commissioned by the South West Museum Development   Partnership to “deliver digital engagement consultancy and training” to museums across the region. That just means explaining to museum workers - volunteers included - how things like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and a load of other things that we read about today can be used to show the world what riches we have in even the most modest of our museums. The audience is already there.   Figures released by the Internationa...