Budleigh Past and Present

Nice message from Nutritional Consultant Nina Geraghty http://www.goodfoodandnutrition.com/ " I think I am your 1000th follower. Visited Budleigh for over 32 years, fantastic place. One day I will call it home."  Maybe our Budleigh Food Festival should know about her.   Now at 1,002 followers.  Thanks all for following Fairlynch Museum and Arts Centre in Budleigh Salterton, Devon, England.

  Dartmouth Museum : top tweeters "We're very worthy," says Tim Trent, volunteer at Dartmouth Museum and Devon tweeter extraordinaire. "We're a quite ordinary museum - only three rooms plus a lobby. We've been tweeting only since July last year, but for such a tiny museum we punch well above our weight in social media." Well, when they can boast of sending out 3,569 tweets - it works out at a daily average of 15-20 tweets - it's perhaps why Dartmouth Museum has 706 followers on Twitter, and growing by the minute.   The Royal Albert Memorial Museum 's current 3,015 tweet total looks measly by comparison. "The extraordinary thing now is that we're attracting attention from a lot of heavyweights in the social media scene. It's mad really. But it's getting our museum talked about."   And Dartmouth Museum was even nominated for a couple of social media awards. They didn't win, but they never expe...

Yes, we've joined the select group of Devon museums who are using social media to spread the word about why they're worth a visit. Not just Twitter, but also Facebook. It all started when the Museum's press officer Michael Downes learned how such things can help somewhere like Fairlynch when last Friday he attended an excellent training session given by Andy Chapman from internet consultancy 1010 Media http://www.1010media.co.uk/ 1010 Media, with bases in London and Exeter, has worked with a large range of businesses and organisations including Devon Museums and Exeter Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Commenting on Friday's training session, Andy said:   "There was lots to cram into a short space of time, and, due to the structure being very 'off the cuff' because of each museum's differing situation, it was slightly tricky to prepare for!" The session also included topics such as domain names for museums, email, Flikr...