[Thursday] How often do you leave a trail to New England Wireless & Steam Museum?

[Vbob]

Ken, et al - I just commented on a post by Michael in the Vintage Electronic Test Equipment Facebook group - a bit of gentle snark about finding stuff… - and used Facebook’s ‘automagic match’ to include a link to the Museum Facebook page in my comment - except that it offered three very similar groups - one spelt with an Ampersand, and another with the word AND, and a third I didn’t explore… try as I might I can’t get it to choose the official page - and now I can’t get it to offer all three choices again, but only the two similar unofficial pages…… need more coffee.

A workaround is to paste the URL into a post - but I do like the cleaner feel of the name being a link in the text of a post or comment.

The ‘Ampersand’ Facebook page splashes in with a invitation to the 2023 Car Show, while one of the ‘And’ pages goes to an unofficial but interesting presentation of the Museum. 

https://www.facebook.com/NEWirelessSteamMuseum seems to be the ‘official’ page and opens with a nice shot of the big engines…

https://www.facebook.com/pages/New%20England%20Wireless%20and%20Steam%20Museum/144134172264489 - unofficial page but fairly current
https://www.facebook.com/pages/New%20England%20Wireless%20&%20Steam%20Museum/1095731340460661/ - unofficial page but last post from 2016

How did we end up with multiple variously updated pages, and who manages it/them/us?

Can/should we figure out how to have one official page? 

Does any of this make sense? I’m getting lost just thinking about it - and we really REALLY want folks to be able to find the place and be convinced it’s worth a visit.

Vbob

> On Feb 14, 2024, at 5:36 AM, Ken Carr via Thursday <thursday at newsm.org> wrote:
> 
> Do you frequent speciality groups on Facebook or other social media sites
> that you have an interest in?
> 
> Do yo search out topics such as:
> steam engines.           electricity.       DIY.               STEM
> trains.                          mechanics.    Machining.     Physics
> engineering.                physics.         ham radio.      Antique Radios
> Makers.                       History.          wireless.         Restoration 
> 
> How often do you drop a plug for the museum?
> It’s easy to do and if we all make it a habit, even more people
> will discover us. A  suggested sample is below:
> If you type just the text within the parentheses (omit the parentheses) you will
> get the nice photo link you may see below:
> “https://newsm.org” <https://newsm.xn--org-9o0a/> 
> 
> New England Wireless & Steam Museum – A Non-Profit • Public • Educational • Engineering Museum <https://newsm.org/>
> 
> 
> New England Wireless & Steam Museum – A Non-Profit • Public • Educational • Engineering Museum
> The New England Wireless and Steam Museum is an electrical and mechanical engineering museum emphasizing the beginnings of radio and steam power.
> 
>  <https://newsm.org/> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> NEWSM.org
> IDLENOT.com
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