Over the last few weeks, the Ohio Association of Historical Societies and Museums’ Local History Blog has begun to feature extensive recaps of the annual regional OAHSM meetings across Ohio.

Started many years ago, these regional OAHSM meetings provide those involved with collecting, preserving and displaying local history with the opportunity to learn from others in the field. Each session typically focuses on a handful of topics relevant to museum and historical society operation, and include a revue of developments on a statewide basis. Each region’s list of topics is typically different, however, and just as conference goers can be at a dilemma when having to choose between concurrent sessions of interest, an area of particular interest to one group might be discussed in a different OAHSM region.

Through the new recapping posts, however, much of this dilemma is done away with - and online visitors can now access insights into each of the regional discussions and presentations. It’s an absolutely fantastic idea. Recent topics profiled in these recaps include strategic planning and community engagement, using technology for communications and public relations, overcoming misconceptions, specific project overviews, and much, much more. Local preservation and downtown revitalization organizations will find much useful information in these narratives.

Each of these recaps can be easily located by using the Ohio Preservation News Reader on MyHometownOhio - just click here, then on “Ohio History and Museum News,” and then on “Ohio Association of Historical Societies & Museums: Local History Blog.”

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