Janine Delaney: Evolution of a Facebook page
Channel: NDF - National Digital Forum
Date: 2015-10-17

Day 1 of NDF 2015, 2.00pm Tuesday 13 October 2015

West Coast New Zealand History was a Facebook page that took off, rapidly building over 7,000 members. They were sharing what they remembered, researched and documented about the Coast, and they were building a community. But Facebook is an ephemeral medium, and they were just as rapidly losing what they were building.

This presentation will look at the technical challenges of recovering their content from Facebook, what was involved in setting up a crowdfunding campaign with Givealittle, issues of running a site where the content is all community sourced and your site admins are volunteers, and how the site westcoast.recollect.co.nz fared following its launch.

West Coast New Zealand History is a group of over 7,000 individuals spread around the world. Janine Delaney works for New Zealand Micrographic Services (NZMS). She manages the team that created the software and helped set up the new West Coast New Zealand History site. @NZMS1990 @RecollectNZ