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...