Training Videos
Marketing and Social Media Engagement
Mandi Retter will detail how small communities and organizations can maximize their social media engagement and current social media best practices.
How can social media and other marketing tactics best engage both your members of your community and visitors to your community? How do you choose the best marketing strategies for your organization’s needs? Bring your questions as we explore these topics and more.
Interregional Cooperation & Creating Critical Mass
This presentation demonstrated the importance of interregional cooperation, showing spatial data including: maps showing commuting patters, workforce and job location, lodging availability, distances from major metros. We will discuss “critical mass” by pairing our attractions with other communities, designing advertising that “packages” regional assets for visitors, and looking at some examples of communities that have done this successfully.
Creating & Sustaining an Effective Volunteer Program
This program looked at the many aspects of managing in-house volunteers and eVolunteers. The Missouri State Archives has benefited from volunteers since the 1970’s and began our eVolunteer program in 1999. Join two State Archives staffers as they discuss the various aspects of recruiting and retaining volunteers, along with project management and lessons learned.
Total Town Makeover
Our ‘Total Town Makeover’ series addresses the issues of why some small towns thrive while others decline. This two-part series details what influences young people to live and work in some communities but not in others, and how you can help your community make a turn-around for the better.
This two-part series details what influences young people to live and work in some communities but not in others, and how you can help your community make a turn-around for the better.
Author and host of the syndicated radio show “American Countryside” Andrew McCrea covers these topics and more. Check out his two-sessions below, originally hosted in January of 2021.
Learn the Three Essentials for a Total Town Makeover –
How does your community stack up and how can you help initiate a positive change?
Most Ideas Need Cash –
Learn how communities are using and creating endowments as a vehicle to increase funding opportunities and as a catalyst to bring local organizations together for shared planning.
Pitching the Humanities to the Media
Total Town Makeover
Our ‘Total Town Makeover’ series addresses the issues of why some small towns thrive while others decline. This two-part series details what influences young people to live and work in some communities but not in others, and how you can help your community make a turn-around for the better.
