Thanks all for your good ideas on recruitment and insights on working with "targeted hosts". I hadn't thought about tourism conferences. Arden, thanks for reminding me about your historic preservation conference-we have one here that corresponds perfectly with recruitment time. And, Mark, since we are bordering states perhaps we can partner on the helicopter leaflet drop idea! Stay warm y'all. Jean Jean Wortman Program Officer Coordinator Maryland Center for the Book Maryland Humanities Council 108 W. Centre Street Baltimore, MD 21201-4565 (D) 410-685-4187 (0) 410-685-0095 (F) 410-685-0795 Email: [log in to unmask] Website: htpp://www.mdhc.org <htpp://www.mdhc.org/> MHC wants to hear from you! Do you have a transportation story about Baltimore City? Submit your story idea to Beth Barbush at [log in to unmask] or call 410-685-3715, and plan to attend our free event "Moving Stories: Getting Around Baltimore" at the Walters Art Museum February 10, 2011 at 6 p.m. See www.mdhc.org/programs/practicing-democracy/moving-stories-getting-around-bal timore/ for more information. _____ From: Museum on Main Street [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Arden Williams Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 4:30 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: recruiting host sites Hello from 'Arctic' Atlanta (everything has been shut down all week), For upcoming New Harmonies tour - I attended a big regional tourism conference. The people that attended were mostly city managers, downtown development folks, travel industry business people, etc. It was held in GA but people from other southern states were there as well. We rented an exhibitor booth and did a display on New Harmonies. The point is we reached a lot of different individuals (outside the humanities realm). That is one of the reasons that we asked for communities (not organizations) to apply for the exhibit. We required them to work in partnership with organizations in their town and mention that on the application. We interested not just humanities groups by doing this, but we were able to familiarize tourism groups/businesses with the humanities. Another thing we did was a short presentation at an historic preservation conference. The GHC partnered to present the conference and there were people in attendance from all all over the state (humanities groups, art groups and city development people). For our presentation I invited one of the Key Ingredients site directors to talk about her community's experience for a few minutes. They were our most successful site and she connected very well with the audience. I was amazed at how many questions were asked about MOMS and the exhibit specifics following our presentation. We also presented at the state museum association conference but I think you are just preaching to the choir there (in Georgia they all knew about it already from K.I.). That is why we thought of different ways of reaching more people too. Sorry I rambled - hope this gives you some ideas. Best regards, Arden Ms. Arden Williams Senior Program Officer State Coordinator - Museum on Main Street Exhibits Georgia Humanities Council 50 Hurt Plaza, Ste. 595 Atlanta, GA 30303 Phone: 404-523-6220 ext. 17 Fax: 404-523-5702 <http://www.georgiahumanities.org/> http://www.georgiahumanities.org/ GHC and the Smithsonian Presents: New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music- a traveling exhibition Arriving in GA April 14, 2012 Exhibit locations are on the GHC website Grants for 2011: Community Program Grants up to $2,000 Deadlines are 2/1, 5/1 and 9/1 Check the GHC website for guidelines The GHC is home to the New Georgia Encyclopedia <http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/> http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org <http://www.georgiahumanities.org/about-us/newsletter-sign-up/> Sign up for the Georgia Humanities Council email newsletter. . _____ From: Museum on Main Street [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jean Wortman Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 2:15 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: recruiting host sites Hi and Happy New Year! I am wondering if any of you have some good tips and creative ideas for recruiting MoMs host sites. We will be bringing Journey Stories to Maryland in 2012. For past MoMs tours we've done emails and sent snail mail to museums, libraries, cultural orgs on our database and used our museum association's mailing list and I have spoken at the annual regional museum conference, we've never had an overwhelming response to a request for applications. Does anyone have the secret to successful recruiting? Catchy appeals or promotions? Has anyone directly recruited specific host sites and, if so, has this been successful? Thanks for your help. Jean Jean Wortman Program Officer Coordinator Maryland Center for the Book Maryland Humanities Council 108 W. Centre Street Baltimore, MD 21201-4565 (D) 410-685-4187 (0) 410-685-0095 (F) 410-685-0795 Email: [log in to unmask] Website: htpp://www.mdhc.org <htpp://www.mdhc.org/> MHC wants to hear from you! Do you have a transportation story about Baltimore City? Submit your story idea to Beth Barbush at [log in to unmask] or call 410-685-3715, and plan to attend our free event "Moving Stories: Getting Around Baltimore" at the Walters Art Museum February 10, 2011 at 6 p.m. See www.mdhc.org/programs/practicing-democracy/moving-stories-getting-around-bal timore/ for more information.