I have been wanting to set up a FB page for each of my states and possibly my counties. I think it would expand the page's horizons. Might attract some volunteers as well. Mary -----Original Message----- From: jpowelljr@gru.net Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 9:03 AM To: alhn-general@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ALHN-GENERAL] Linking to blogs If you are going that way, why not Facebook pages too? Things on both are a little less formally laid out. I have Facebook pages for my Volunteers, but others use them all the time. They do lead to my websites in many ways... BTW... those that don't remember me. I was part of USGenWeb, way back. On the board and more... I set out to make Volunteering more creative, less rote and follow the rules type places. I was with both ALHN and AGHP for a long while. Now I mostly do my Ancient Records job and our Alachua County Virtual Cemetery Project. (And of course try to keep up with my 12 grandkids, 4 of which are big contributors to the Virtual Cemetery Project) I used to be the Florida Coordinator here, with Alachua and Gilchrist as my linchpins. I tried to give Florida to a Board member awhile back. I don't know if USGenNet helped out or not. There is so much here in Alachua County, so much to share, that to add other places wouldn't be fair. So I may not even belong here any longer. Jim Jim Powell Jr Wizard of AR http://www.wizardofar.org/ http://www.facebook.com/wizardofar Ancient Records Coordinator Alachua County Clerk of Court http://www.alachuaclerk.org/archive http://www.facebook.com/ACARVol > It is getting harder to find people who are willing to create websites and > I feel that this is hurting our recruiting efforts. I already link to > some > blogs from my webpages, but blogs could serve as county sites too. > > Should we consider linking to blogs that are about the history of a > particular are? Blogs are easier for people to create. I can think of > several blogs that would be great additions to our sites. > > Cyndy > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ALHN-GENERAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ALHN-GENERAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Facebook definitely is a way to reward Volunteers with a "Good Job" and allow competition among them for who can do the most this week &c. Or you can say look what so and so found today while transcribing. You can develop new ways to use words... I have one AWESOME Volunteer. She has transcribed over 6,200 pages. Her name is Karen... I told everyone that they didn't have to be a "Karen", that every page is very much appreciated and anyone can ask for a login and give it a try. I have one gentleman that lives in an assisted care facility, he was the Clerk's Boy Scout Leader way back. I wasn't very hopeful when he actually had to drop by to learn what to do... Now he is on his way to 100 pages at 93 pages and counting. He has done a very good job on every page. He does lose which page he was working on last and saved on the server every so often and I have to find it and remind him. And then off he goes. Jim > I have been wanting to set up a FB page for each of my states and possibly > my counties. I think it would expand the page's horizons. Might attract > some volunteers as well. > > Mary > > -----Original Message----- > From: jpowelljr@gru.net > Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 9:03 AM > To: alhn-general@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ALHN-GENERAL] Linking to blogs > > If you are going that way, why not Facebook pages too? Things on both are > a little less formally laid out. I have Facebook pages for my Volunteers, > but others use them all the time. They do lead to my websites in many > ways... > BTW... those that don't remember me. I was part of USGenWeb, way back. > On the board and more... I set out to make Volunteering more creative, > less rote and follow the rules type places. I was with both ALHN and AGHP > for a long while. Now I mostly do my Ancient Records job and our Alachua > County Virtual Cemetery Project. (And of course try to keep up with my 12 > grandkids, 4 of which are big contributors to the Virtual Cemetery > Project) I used to be the Florida Coordinator here, with Alachua and > Gilchrist as my linchpins. I tried to give Florida to a Board member > awhile back. I don't know if USGenNet helped out or not. There is so > much here in Alachua County, so much to share, that to add other places > wouldn't be fair. So I may not even belong here any longer. > > Jim > Jim Powell Jr > Wizard of AR > http://www.wizardofar.org/ > http://www.facebook.com/wizardofar > Ancient Records Coordinator > Alachua County Clerk of Court > http://www.alachuaclerk.org/archive > http://www.facebook.com/ACARVol > >> It is getting harder to find people who are willing to create websites >> and >> I feel that this is hurting our recruiting efforts. I already link to >> some >> blogs from my webpages, but blogs could serve as county sites too. >> >> Should we consider linking to blogs that are about the history of a >> particular are? Blogs are easier for people to create. I can think of >> several blogs that would be great additions to our sites. >> >> Cyndy >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> ALHN-GENERAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ALHN-GENERAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ALHN-GENERAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >