Friends Annual Meeting

Last Wednesday evening (Feb. 4th) was the Friends of the Museum Annual Meeting. After the Meeting, Elmo Baca spoke about Tom Mix, and early film industry here in Las Vegas. Then everyone had the fun opportunity to watch a Tom Mix film - "Weary Goes a'Wooin" - with live piano accompaniment by Em Krall.

About 60 people came to the museum and enjoyed the evening. There were refreshments afterwards, and a door prize drawing. The prize was the book "Sin Nombres" by Dr. Tey Marianna Nunn.

During the meeting portion, I gave a report as to my work using technology to expand our audience. I discussed the blog, website, the new facebook group, twitter, and tumblr. And of course, I talked about the podcasts. I'm so excited to have both of them available now in the itunes store.

In fact EXCITED was my word for the day. I just couldn't stop saying it. And it's because I am so excited about the possibilities, about using technology to enhance existing exhibits, to reach out to virtual visitors, and even disseminate information to people who would otherwise never know it was available. Social networking as a tool to promote education and community history is an exciting and appealing frontier.

For anyone who would like to talk to me about this more please leave a comment here, come by the museum, email me, or even call. If you have a profile on Facebook, please check out our new group "City of Las Vegas Museum and Rough Rider Memorial Collection". Anyone using Twitter, my login is museumeducator. And I just started with tumblr so I'll get back to you on how that is progressing.

Again if you want to download the podcasts, you can do so at the itunes store. you can enter the name of the museum in the search box, or my name, or rough riders.

I would love to see comments on the blog regarding people's opinion of the new technology. Thanks everyone for all your support!