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WHERE IN THE WORLD ARE YOU?

Postby Charles T. McCullough » Sat Jul 24, 2010 12:39 am

Pardon me whilst I vent... (Again! And on the SAME subject as I have already at least once before.)

If you are a member of a museum of some sort and you wish the public to come to the museum to support it;

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!

TELL US WHERE THE MUSEUM IS LOCATED!

If you are the web master or the person responsible for what is displayed on the museum's web site;

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!

TELL US WHERE THE MUSEUM IS LOCATED!


YOU may know exactly where your wonderful museum is, but it is the height of conceit (or stupidity) to assume anybody else does... The WORLD is a whole lot BIGGER than the distance you can see from the museum's front door. If you don't explicitly state WHERE it is located, you put the onus of FINDING the place on the person that might have a passing interest in seeing it, but there are many that do not find any joy in trying so hard to figure it out. It should not be a scavenger hunt to find the place is located or how to get there!

NAME the Country you are in; If it is a large Country, NAME the State or Province (or whatever) you are in; If the State or Privince (or whatever) your place is in is larger than a postage stamp, provide some indication of which area (North, Central, etc.) of the State or Province (or whatever) your place is in... name LARGE cities in the vicinity and the direction and distance from said cities to your museum. Not everybody knows where Mt. Valley is; there are dozens of cities named "Salem", few people have any idea what the alphabet soup letters identifying any RR mean or can associate them with the area it is located. Do NOT just say it is on Route 4; there are thousands of Route 4's and they are quite often hundreds of miles long!

This information should, nay, MUST, be included in any invitation to see the museum, it MUST be BLATANTLY visible on the opening page of the museum's website. DO NOT force the hapless invitee to have to hunt for the information, doing so will just cause a severe LACK of interest in seeking the place out, and leave you wondering why nobody comes to visit!

PLEASE!?!?

This is the "Information Age"... PROVIDE SOME!



(Oops, I should'a got a better soap box, I just stomped me foot and the box collapsed. :x )
Semper Vaporo,
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