Website:
www.lewisandclarkvirginia.org
Our website is the place to start! Thanks to a wonderful
volunteer we connected with through the United Way, we’re learning the features
of WordPress and we’re making changes as we learn. (Staff now runs all the
social media accounts.) You can sign up for our newsletter from a link on our
homepage. The website also has our most current blog posts, often related to
schedules and programs.
Where You Are Now!
Blog:
lewisandclarkexploratorycenter.blogspot.com
This was our first blog, and if you go back through the
years (it goes back to 2009), you’ll learn about our programs at the Keelboat
Barn (before bathrooms, electricity and running water), and you’ll read about
our construction project and process as we built the new building. We still
make entries, though we now divide our blogging time between Facebook, our
webpage, and blogspot... and we value having the continuity (and a historical
document of our earlier activities). For those of you new to us, the Lewis
& Clark Exploratory Center used to run its programs out of the big barn you
pass on the right as you drive to our current locations...
Instagram:
LewisandClarkCville
If you love photography, you’ll want to check out our
Instagram account, where we post nature and program photos.
Facebook:
Lewis & Clark
Exploratory Center
We are active on Facebook! Parents have lobbied us to turn
each weekend into an event page, so we try to do this as often as we can, and
we also put other news and schedule info in our posts. And of course we post photographs from our
outdoor and indoor adventures! Unless we have permission to show close-ups of
faces, we post photographs that protect privacy while showing events.
Pinterest:
Here is our original account (you have one of these before
you are asked to create a business hub):
Lewis’s Dog
https://www.pinterest.com/captainsdog/
When we got on Pinterest, we had a happy surprise! The Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center was on people’s places-we-most-want-to-visit
boards! In fact, the day we learned about these types of boards, a family came
in from out-of-town whose board we had just seen! This family is driving the
Lewis & Clark Trail to the Dakotas this summer.
And here is our business hub, which we’re developing:
Lewis & Clark
Exploratory Center
https://www.pinterest.com/lcecvirginia/
So far, people are interacting more with the dog and the
prairie dogs... we’ll await your follows and we’ll add your pins!
Twitter:
@ExploreLCEC
@LCExploratory
Disclosure: so far we don’t tweet very often. We have a lot
going on at the Exploratory Center, and composing tweets isn’t always at the
forefront of our minds. But when we do, it’s often to thank grant-making
organizations, and to reach out about various ideas. @ExploreLCEC is for our
visitors and has schedule information.
@LCExploratory is intended to be about professional concerns and
ideas...discussions about education and history.
YouTube:
Lewis & Clark
Exploratory Center
If you see an Eagle Mask logo (our current photo) you’re in
the right place! We’ve just begun our YouTube channel, and our first video is a
thank you to APO, the UVA service fraternity that has maintained our boats,
built our shed and benches, put in our second gravel path, and designed and
constructed our kayak shed! (They’ve also repaired our Trevillian’s Creek
bridge and more...) Our video was sent to their membership after their 2019
Brotherhood Project at the Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center.
tumblr
ExploreLCEC
Tumblr: our frontier. Tumblr has a much younger demographic
(children, teens, and tweens), and works like a visual blog. Our presence there
is an experiment so far... and we’ll be learning from our youngers along the
way.. Participation encouraged!
