Budleigh Past and Present

  Check out the old fossils on the Jurassic Coast Partnership's website at http://jurassiccoast.org/fossilfinder I mentioned ‘digital’ elsewhere a couple of years ago on this blog in relation to local businesses and their use of the internet.  Since then, more and more Budleigh people seem to be ‘digitally engaged’, and using social media like Facebook and Twitter.   Fairlynch Museum's Nick Speare  Image credit: Mo Sandford FRPS For museums, digital engagement can mean something pretty broad and quite radical, including the sensible way in which visitors on the other side of the world are able to admire Fairlynch’s artefacts.     “ Many museums are making much more use of the internet to make their collections and catalogues available to the public and this is the direction Fairlynch should be following,” says the Museum’s Treasurer Nick Speare. A start was made in O...

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...