Thanks all for your good ideas on
recruitment and insights on working with “targeted hosts”. I
hadn’t thought about tourism conferences.
Stay warm y’all.
Jean
Jean
Wortman
Program Officer
108
(D) 410-685-4187
(0) 410-685-0095
(F) 410-685-0795
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From: Museum on Main
Street [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Arden Williams
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011
4:30 PM
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Subject: Re: recruiting host sites
Hello from 'Arctic'
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
Sorry I rambled - hope this gives you some ideas.
Best regards,
Ms. Arden Williams
Senior Program Officer
State Coordinator -
Museum on
50 Hurt Plaza,
Phone: 404-523-6220 ext. 17
Fax: 404-523-5702
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
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
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
108
(D) 410-685-4187
(0) 410-685-0095
(F) 410-685-0795
Email: [log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]
Website: htpp://www.mdhc.org
MHC wants to hear from you! Do you have a transportation
story about