This post is Jo Baron’s explanation of how she is moving us into the real media world! Thanks Jo.
The fine featured image is a photo taken by Matthew Price who visited the Garden with a group of enthusiastic Instagram photographers.
I thought I would just write a few words to introduce what I do on these two social media platforms for the Garden and invite any and all of you to email me with announcements, fundraising bids, event notices, things we want and need for the garden, photos that tell a story or that would encourage volunteers and supporters and just generally help us let people who use social media to communicate know that we are here.
The Twitter account @BlaiseGarden has been going for a while now, and has run up over 1000 tweets, many of them accompanied by photos I have taken. A few people found the Garden through Twitter and one of them became a volunteer. Many people take an interest in what we do and some of the twitter followers have already voted in our latest fundraising bid, just because they are nice people. The Twitter account has a relationship with the Museum who also tweet actively, so we promote their tweets and activities and they reciprocate thus reaching more people than the Garden alone can reach.
The Instagram account @blaisegarden was put together the other week in a bit of a rush so that we could have a way of seeing the photographs that the Igers Bristol group of photographers took.
They visited the garden the other Saturday as part of a visit to Blaise Estate.
There were some amazing photographs taken by the Igers Group, who were all very complimentary about the Garden, the Museum and of course Blaise Castle, where they were shown around by Alastair for Friends of Blaise.
It is relatively straightforward for any of you who have a smart phone, tablet or computer to look at and see what is being put on either of these accounts and of course join in if you would like to.
To just have a look at what I am putting on there go to
https://www.instagram.com/blaisegarden/
where you will find a grid of pictures, any of which you can click on to look at in closer detail and see who took them and so on. Any without a name on have been put on there by Jo.
If you would like to join in, leave comments, ‘likes’ etc and help drive traffic to our account that would be wonderful. If you want some help in doing so, let Jo know or if you want to give me some feedback, make suggestions etc do get in touch.
And do please send photos that you don’t mind being shared in this way with a title or a bit of contextual text and I will put them on the account if you want me to. If you want to be credited for the photo then again let me know.
